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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 855 Student Disagrees with Me: Libertarians Should Speak Out in Class

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I favor speaking up in all kinds of situations, but a college classroom isn't a good one, in my opinion. The other kids don't care what you have to say and resent you for speaking, and the professor can make your life miserable. Marcelo Guadiana, a senior at UMass Boston and treasurer of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter there, begs to differ.

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 855.

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my link, Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. I said on an episode not that long ago

0:35.9

that it was my opinion that libertarian students in

0:40.3

college classrooms should basically bite their tongues. And not because I'm a coward, for heaven's

0:47.1

sake, I'm obviously not a coward, but rather that I think you're fighting the battle on the wrong

0:53.0

terrain. The professor dominates that room.

0:57.0

And I think also people get annoyed when there's that no-it-all kid in the back and you're

1:03.2

holding me up from getting a lunch. They're not saying to themselves, oh, I wonder what my fellow

1:08.7

student has to say about some important subject. I guarantee you nobody's thinking that.

1:13.8

They're thinking, who is this jerk? Is it this jerk again? Can I just get my B-minus and get out of here already?

1:20.0

So I just don't think it works. And secondly, but much more importantly, I think there's a chance you're going to get a lousy grade.

1:27.3

Because there are some professors who are just that petty. And I don't think it's worth doing

1:31.9

because in the rest of your life, you have potentially a much larger audience than you have in that

1:37.8

classroom. You can reach a lot of people through a lot of different media. Wait until you get

1:43.6

that piece of paper and then do

1:45.8

everything you want to do. But I just don't think the classroom strategically, from your own

1:51.2

personal point of view, is the best place to do that. Now, on the other hand, my guest today,

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