Ep. 1389 How to Defeat the Government/University Complex, Which Is Turning Frustrated Kids into Socialists
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Tom Woods
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🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Isaac Morehouse says the people who got duped in the college admissions scandals weren't the schools that accepted unqualified students but the parents who paid the bribes to get their children in. He's right. Today we discuss the increasingly irrelevant preparation for the real world that the existing government/university complex gives Americans -- a preparation so poor that it's turning a frustrated generation toward socialism. What's a better strategy?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1389. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Folks, the school year is winding down as I record this, and it's soon going to be time to think about next year's homeschool curriculum. |
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| 0:42.9 | curriculum through ronpaulhomeschool.com. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Isaac Morehouse is back with us |
| 0:50.2 | today. Such a great guy, such an important guy, who's done such great things for so many |
| 0:56.5 | people, in particular with Praxis, but we're going to talk about something brand new he's also doing. |
| 1:03.3 | Praxis will be talking about a little bit, we'll get more of the details, but I'll just tell you right |
| 1:07.9 | now, and I'm sure a lot of longtime listeners already know, that Praxis, which is an apprenticeship program that's had a tremendous track record, particularly for young people who listen to my show, has helped a lot of people avoid the standard path of go into debt for four years and then sit by the telephone waiting for somebody to need you. |
| 1:28.6 | Instead, Praxis is putting people into jobs that give them on-the-job training for a year or so, |
| 1:37.1 | and then afterward, they're guaranteed a job. |
| 1:40.4 | And they don't have any debt. |
| 1:42.1 | And not only do they not have any debt, they've been earning for several years by the time their peers are out of college. |
| 1:47.3 | It's been a tremendous program. |
| 1:49.0 | And I've had so many young folks who listen to this show go through it and have just tremendous results. |
| 1:56.5 | So I just could not be happier to have Isaac on. |
| 1:59.7 | And we were talking through email and the topic of the college admission scandal came up where people were apparently engaged in falsifying student records in order to get them into college. |
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