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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 412 What I Told the Eleventh Graders About Liberty

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

For the third year in a row, I was asked to speak on classical liberalism (libertarianism) to the 11th graders in my kids' school, in their Great Ideas course.

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0:00.0

In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:05.1

Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.1

Look no further.

0:16.7

You've found it.

0:18.4

Tom Woods.

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 412.

0:38.1

Today I am sharing with you a talk I gave at my kids' school last week.

0:43.4

My kids go to a K-12 private school, and the 11th graders.

0:48.0

I don't have an 11th grader.

0:49.3

My oldest is turning 12 next month, but she was in attendance for this special talk. Every year I give

0:56.5

a talk in the 11th grade Great Ideas course, which goes through a lot of the important ideas

1:02.7

that have been debated over the course of Western civilization, but that includes discussions

1:07.8

of the major schools of political thought. So you would go through socialism and,

1:14.2

you know, the progressives, no doubt, and a whole bunch of different schools of thought. But of course,

1:19.6

classical liberalism or libertarianism is one of those. And so every year I come in and I talk about

1:25.1

the ideas of classical liberalism. I mention a few of the important thinkers.

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