Ep. 1188 Just When You Thought We'd Smashed the Schools Good, Along Comes Gene Epstein
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Gene Epstein joins me to make if anything an even more radical case against the existing education system than Bryan Caplan does in the latter's recent book The Case Against Education. Whatever "but surely you agree we have to have X!" arguments you've heard, Gene anticipates and smashes them in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1188. |
| 0:03.1 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.7 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:35.4 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. We're back with Gene Epstein once again. |
| 0:39.5 | Gene, as many of you know, is recently retired from Barron's, the nation's premier financial |
| 0:44.7 | publication. And he is the director of the Soho Forum, which we'll have an opportunity to say |
| 0:50.1 | something about in just a moment. But we want to talk about some themes raised in Brian |
| 0:54.5 | Kaplan's book, The Case Against Education. I've had Brian on to talk about that book. But Gene's |
| 0:59.5 | review raises a number of other issues and some further supporting arguments. And, well, |
| 1:05.0 | frankly, it's always nice to have a chance to talk to Gene. And I knew he would have wonderful, |
| 1:10.2 | great, bold, and iconoclastic ideas about this. |
| 1:13.2 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:15.6 | Remember, you can grab Brian's book, The Case Against Education, through Amazon. |
| 1:20.6 | You can get it through my link to Amazon at tomwoods.com slash 1188. |
| 1:26.2 | And the audible version is available as well you can get that for free if |
| 1:30.9 | you've not yet joined audible you can get that at tom woods audio dot com jean welcome back uh good to be back |
| 1:38.5 | tom and uh i'm looking forward to talking about our topic uh today we always start off with a little word about the Soho Forum. |
| 1:46.6 | Let's hold that off for later because it looks like your next event, |
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