Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.

With me today is Daniel McAdams. Daniel, good to see you. Good morning, Dr. Paul. Good. We have a special guest, a friend of the Freedom Movement, and he's a prolific writer.

He's written many, many books. He's also a senior fellow at the Mises Institute,

and he just happens to be a course director and writer for the Ron Paul curriculum.

So welcome to our program today, Tom Woods.

Ron and Daniels a pleasure to be here.

Good. We consider you an expert.

Although we have a homeschooling program and my name is attached to it,

I also have to have some experts really helping me. And of course, Gary North has been involved, you're a course creator, and you've been working closely with that.

So we want to start off, though, with a little bit of generalities about homeschooling,

because we have a lot of listeners now to the program, and some are interested, but I think a little bit more information might help.

Could you give us a little indication on what are your perceptions about homeschooling over the years?

You know, maybe 10 years or so. What has happened?

Are we, is it escalating and growing exponentially or is it a very

gradual growth or is there no growth at all? And what do you see in the future for homeschooling,

per se? I think it's been growing very dramatically. And certainly in terms of cultural acceptance,

it's been growing. My own wife was actually homeschooled back when people would say,

wait, but are you even allowed to do that? Whereas today people understand that there are all kinds of reasons people might even want to do it.

There was a view some years ago that the only reason people would homeschool is for religious reasons.

But it turns out there are great many people who want to homeschool for a whole variety of reasons. There are people on the left, on the right,

in the middle, people who are libertarian, people who are not libertarian. They just feel that a one-size-fits-all approach

is not, it doesn't really work for them. So it's been extremely encouraging to see that

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