Connor Boyack Explains How Government Schools are Failing Today's Students
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Guests: Paul Moreno, Connor Boyack, & Joey Barretta
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, Professor of History, & Dean of Social Sciences at Hillsdale College, about a recent lecture for Hillsdale freshmen on the American heritage of freedom in the liberal arts. Connor Boyack, founder and president of Libertas Institute and the author of the Tuttle Twins children’s series of books, takes us inside his new release, co-authored by Corey DeAngelis, Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today's Students. And Joey Barretta, recent graduate of Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College, talks about his dissertation, "Frederick Douglass on the Necessary Conditions of Freedom."
Paul Moreno at 1:02
Connor Boyack at 12:00
Joey Barretta at 35:00
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| 1:39.8 | com.com.com. And that was Connor Boyack. He's the co-author, along with Corey DeAngelis, of a new book, Mediocrity. |
| 1:47.8 | Forty Ways Government Schools are failing today's students. |
| 1:51.2 | We'll talk in depth with Carter about that book in just a little bit. |
| 1:55.1 | First on today's program, we're joined by Dr. Paul Marino. |
| 1:58.4 | He is William and British Rookcock Chair in Constitutional History, |
| 2:01.7 | Professor of History and Dean of Social Sciences here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Marino, thanks for |
| 2:07.0 | joining us. Well, great to be on. Discussing today a lecture that you gave to our freshman students |
| 2:11.5 | here at Hillsdale, it's also been published in Law and Liberty at lawliberty.org, the American Heritage of Freedom in the Liberal Arts. |
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