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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 315 The Origins of State Education: Myth and Reality

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Tom discusses the origins of state education.

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0:06.4

And Republicans.

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0:18.4

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0:21.2

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0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.8

Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 315.

0:38.3

I'm talking today about education in Western history and the growth of state education and England as a counter-example and what kind of conclusions we might draw.

0:50.3

Because I happen to be talking about that right now in the course that I'm preparing for the Ron Paul curriculum.

0:57.0

As you loyal listeners know, I create courses for that program. I've already done a course on government, which I jokingly refer to as my anti-government course.

1:10.0

I've done a course on Western Civilization to 1492,

1:14.6

and I'm currently working on Western civilization from 1493.

1:19.6

And in the course of working on this material,

1:21.6

I thought, well, you know what?

1:22.6

Maybe I think I'll do an episode on this.

1:25.6

And in particular, I've just finished, I've just gotten to about the year 1830

1:30.3

in the course politically. I'm just about at 1830, so I'm after the Congress of Vienna,

1:36.3

the Napoleonic Wars, and I've been talking about the conservative reaction to the French Revolution.

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