Education

Until that happy day when education is disestablished, Illich is searching for methods of moving strongly away from the public education system.

Given the rate at which our wealth and culture seem to be eroding away from beneath our feet, I urge both my elders and my peers to oppose the leviathan state and its cronies at every turn so we can start a new journey toward lasting prosperity.

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

The students' interest in the current economic crisis has served as a source of motivation for them to learn the subject well.

The paradox is that if Nock had but known it, Columbia College in his day was the nearest approximation to the ideal set forth in his lectures.

The liberal traditions on which this nation was founded are now so little understood that each person will have to largely do his own research, laboriously and carefully.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Newport Beach, California, on November 14th, 2009. Sponsored by Louis E.

We need to convey the truth that the market for education works and would deliver far better results at less cost if it were allowed to function.

Pages 863-876. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.