Ep. 1217 How the State Sucks the Life Out of Education, and How the Private Sector Just Made a Great Leap Forward in Math
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
JW Weatherman joins me to discuss the problems with state education -- particularly in math, a subject people are essentially taught to hate -- and a thrilling way the private sector has just made it vastly better, more accessible, more effective, and more fun.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1217. |
| 0:03.1 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.9 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:35.4 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking today about the way the state's method for teaching math just sucks all the life out of it. |
| 0:42.6 | It just ruins it. |
| 0:44.0 | But instead of just complaining about it, we're going to talk about an alternative, a really exciting alternative created in the private sector. |
| 0:51.4 | Where else? |
| 0:52.3 | So that is coming up in just a minute. |
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| 1:30.7 | Weatherman. |
| 1:31.2 | He's a software security expert who's been in the Silicon Valley startup scene for 20 |
| 1:35.2 | years. |
| 1:36.2 | And we're talking to him today about his current project, mathbot.com. |
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