Education

It may be difficult to understand at first why the members of the Texas Board of Education consider Aquinas, Calvin, and Blackstone more worthy of study than Thomas Jefferson.

 By the time the politicians are in charge, most of the eggheads will be in jail or in flight to Canada or Mexico.

Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 26 February 2010.

In areas of normative economics, this event [Becker receiving Prize]will give a sharp boost to many of the free-market views held by Austrians. But, as far as positive economic analysis is concerned, there is no help here for the praxeological school.

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.