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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 623 The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Are schooling and education the same thing? No way, says Zachary Slayback, who encourages the cultivation of entrepreneurship skills in place of the passive experience of traditional schooling. Almost nothing we've come to believe about education goes unchallenged in this provocative discussion.

Show notes for Ep. 623

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 623.

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.

0:14.8

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0:22.4

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0:28.7

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0:34.1

2016, then what can I say? I owe you a Coke. Bob Murphy and I are hosting a cruise that's going to be full of fun and games and music and fellowship and making new friends.

0:46.3

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0:50.3

Welcome everybody. What a blast we're going to have today with Zachary Slayback. He's a co-founder of Praxis, which is an organization we've talked about in the past on the show, that promotes entrepreneurship among younger people instead of just telling them to go through the usual grind, go to college, study sociology, and then have nothing to do. It's a very, very interesting alternative,

1:12.7

and we're in particular going to talk about Zachary's forthcoming book called The End of School,

1:19.9

subtitle, reclaiming education from the classroom. Wonderful stuff. We're going to have on the show

1:25.5

notes page related episodes that I've done on education as well.

1:29.4

That's tomwoods.com slash 623. And that's also where you can pre-order Zach's book.

1:34.8

Zach, welcome to the show.

1:36.1

Thanks for having me on, Tom. I'm excited.

1:38.1

I think what you're doing is absolutely great. The things you're talking about, your forthcoming book, the work that you're doing,

1:44.7

it's all great and exciting. I mean, in a way, you really are a pioneer in a lot of ways.

1:50.6

And people will look back and say, if only we'd listen to that dude years ago, we wouldn't

1:54.9

have screwed up our lives.

1:56.2

Hopefully they do listen.

1:58.9

All right. Gosh, there are so many directions I could take this in.

2:02.2

Let's start off with your own personal story.

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