Education

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

The students' interest in the current economic crisis has served as a source of motivation for them to learn the subject well.

The paradox is that if Nock had but known it, Columbia College in his day was the nearest approximation to the ideal set forth in his lectures.

The liberal traditions on which this nation was founded are now so little understood that each person will have to largely do his own research, laboriously and carefully.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Newport Beach, California, on November 14th, 2009. Sponsored by Louis E.

We need to convey the truth that the market for education works and would deliver far better results at less cost if it were allowed to function.

Pages 863-876. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. 

Mises University was just one of the small steps that I and many others have to taken in our own careers and vocations for the cause of liberty.

"The products of our schools, for the most part, are incompetent to think and act intelligently, honestly, and bravely in this difficult era."