Ep. 1094 The Case Against Education
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University, has just released a provocative (and really excellent) book that takes aim at the education system virtually all of us grew up in. The claims made for it -- virtually all of them -- collapse on close examination. And he doesn't say the system has been corrupted by political correctness, and we just need to get back to its noble origins. His critique is far more sweeping, and devastating.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1094. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Folks, if you thought Bernie Sanders and his ideas would just go away, boy, have you been proven wrong? |
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| 0:22.9 | Bernie Sanders is wrong over at Bernieiswrong.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. What a provocative |
| 0:29.8 | episode this one is. We're going to be talking with Brian Kaplan about his brand new book, |
| 0:35.5 | The Case Against Education, Why the Education System is a waste of time and money. |
| 0:41.0 | Brian is a professor of economics at George Mason University. |
| 0:44.7 | He holds his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. |
| 0:48.0 | And in fact, it's Princeton University Press that published this provocative book that I recommend highly. It is a great read, |
| 0:57.8 | and it makes an overwhelming case. It's like Brian himself. You know, Brian is known for |
| 1:02.6 | talking kind of fast. You just get overwhelmed. The book just overwhelms you with evidence |
| 1:07.3 | and arguments. It's fantastic. It is so well done. And I know there are some |
| 1:13.2 | libertarians out there who instinctively know there's something wrong with the education system, |
| 1:18.6 | but they're on the defensive all the time because people seem to think that without the |
| 1:23.0 | education system, everybody would be ignorant and nobody would have skills and everybody would be poor and |
| 1:29.2 | you're on the defensive all the time. And Brian gives you just an overwhelming case to help you |
| 1:35.6 | push back against this. Brian, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. I am a big fan of |
| 1:41.5 | bold and blunt book titles, but I say this one really takes the prize, the case against education. |
| 1:48.4 | Published by Princeton, no small feat that. |
| 1:51.1 | Not the first time you've managed that. |
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