Ep. 390 Crimes of the Educators: Why Education Is More Screwed Up Than You Think
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How bad is American education? Worse than you think. Alex Newman walks us through the crazy math, the crazy reading strategies, the behavioral drugs, and the historical origins of it all.
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| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show episode 390. |
| 0:43.5 | We're talking about education today and how screwed up it is with author Alex Newman. |
| 0:55.7 | Alex is co-author with Samuel Blumenfeld of the new book, Crimes of the Educators, How Utopians Are Using government schools to destroy America's children. |
| 1:02.3 | Alex has been a correspondent for the New American for the past eight years, and he joins us today to talk about, well, a great variety of topics because there are so many covered in his book. |
| 1:08.1 | The show notes page for today is tomwoods.com slash 390, where you'll find a link |
| 1:14.4 | to the book and to Alex and indeed to the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum, which will help |
| 1:20.6 | you avoid all this insanity. All right, here's my conversation with Alex Newman. |
| 1:26.3 | Alex, welcome to the show. |
| 1:29.2 | Thank you so much for having me, Tom. |
| 1:37.4 | This book of yours, Crimes of the Educators, is extremely broad in terms of the topics it hits on. |
| 1:42.1 | It's not just an essay about the difficulties with American education. It takes on one specific topic after another, |
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