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School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education
 
School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education
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1. 055: A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away...and Today
| (Kids Are Not Defective Part 8)Topic:
Stefan Molyneux of
Freedomain Radio joins me to discuss the seemingly elusive nature of heroism.
Our discussion surveys a variety of historical topics as we examine how heroes are manufactured by our government education, while our own capacity for "heroism" i
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| Published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:52:40 GMT - 31 MB Format: MPEG
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2. 054 Keys (Installment #4): Emergence (w/ Erica Goldson)
| Imagine a door to complete freedom, abounding opportunity and greater personal satisfaction... Public education is the lock. This is the fourth in a series of non-sequential shows about finding keys.
The END of Public Education?
END: It's over, irrelevant, useless, needs to be done away with. Cons
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| Published on Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:50:22 GMT - 36 MB Format: MPEG
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3. 053: Drapetomania
| (Kids Are Not Defective Part 7)Topic:
Dr. Bruce Levine joins me to discuss his article,
How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness.
It turns out that pathologizing or "diseasing" rebellious behavior is not a new trick for those who hold tenuous power over others.
Bumper Music:
"The Man Who
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| Published on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:18:03 GMT - 27 MB Format: MPEG
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4. 052: Holes
| (Kids Are Not Defective Part 6)Topic:
There is a phrase, "hole in the soul," that describes how a person may feel incomplete, unworthy, or dependent on external things. While much of this is probably rooted in family, I believe that school can contribute to one's sense of personal emptiness.
This i
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| Published on Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:56:16 GMT - 17 MB Format: MPEG
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5. 051 School News! (#4b): The Mainstream Media: Parrots On the Shoulders of Pirates
| Most of this show was my original attempt to begin the Kids Are Not Defective Series, but it just turned into a rant about the mainstream media.
A couple months ago I decided to watch a little cable news. MSNBC to be precise. They were running a story/series called "V Is For...Violence." It focus
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| Published on Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:13:49 GMT - 13 MB Format: MPEG
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6. 050 School News! (#4a): Warning Signs of Violence To Come
| Part one of two somewhat related installments.
With all this concern about the violent behavior of teenagers, and subsequent crackdowns, would you be surprised to learn school administrators are actually encouraging even more widespread aggression.
How about mandating it?
JROTC obligation is stir
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| Published on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:50:56 GMT - 7 MB Format: MPEG
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7. 049: The Free Lunch Project (Massachusetts Infomercial)
| My response to the recent arrests in Greenfield, MA, coupled with my leftover resentment from two years of living in the Commonwealth, which includes my quarrel with Salem bureaucrats over what excise tax is and why I "owe" it after I moved out of state, and being ticketed in 2006 for riding my bike
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| Published on Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:45:05 GMT - 2 MB Format: MPEG
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8. 048 (Supplemental): The Catastrophe of Conventional Wisdom
| A Free State Project Edition of School Sucks Podcast
Due to my Porcfest vacation, new shows are not ready yet. In the meantime, here is the audio version of my speech from the 2010 NH Liberty Forum, "The Catastrophe of Conventional Wisdom." I'm pretty sure most people who listen to the show have
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| Published on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:18:58 GMT - 29 MB Format: MPEG
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9. 047: The Incubator
| (Kids Are Not Defective Part 5)Topic:in·cu·ba·tor (noun)
1.An apparatus in which environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity, can be controlled, providing suitable conditions for a chemical or biological reaction.
2. A place or situation that permits or encourages the formation and d
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| Published on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:29:42 GMT - 31 MB Format: MPEG
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10. 046: The Mutually Destructive Exchange
| (Kids Are Not Defective Part 4)Topic:
My thoughts on bullying. It's not a problem that always begins at school, but that's often where it ends. Tragically.
We all understand that bullies seek out victims.
But do victims often seek out bullies?
Do victims wish to be bullies?
Almost all bullies are t
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| Published on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:40:47 GMT - 15 MB Format: MPEG
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