School Sucks Podcast: Education Evolution

...from Eugenics to Common Core

Recorded live 6-6-13 with Joe, Cory and various participants in the chat

Topic:
The themes of central planning and well-intentioned megalomania tie together two distinct topics: a survey history of eugenics and the new Common Core national curriculum.

The article that leads into our eugenics conversation: Huffington Post: People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests

Look Closer
Galton Centenary 2011 - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/galton/centenary

Legacy of eugenics: mini-lecture (UCL) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5zSRYch50A

UNA21 - US Education Goal: Dumb & Dumber 1 of 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpr4iiOh62I

Peg Luksik "Who Controls Our Children?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfInio1sLE0

Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGph7QHzmo8

Ron Paul: 'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum - http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?415650-Ron-Paul-Common-Core-Nationalizes-and-Dumbs-Down-Public-School-Curriculum

Submit Content to the School Sucks front page - http://schoolsucksproject.com/community/links/

Picture: The more things change...

Topic:
Part one in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.

This installment deals primarily with WWI, the Wilson administration and the Espionage Act of 1917, a very important (albeit absurd) precedent in the current legal conversation.

Bumper Music:
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, 4th mvt. - Allegro non troppo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfPEaElG3m4

Look Closer:
Chapter 14: War is the health of the state - http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnwarhea14.html

Who Was Edward M. House? - http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs86.html

Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, by Godfrey Hodgson - http://www.amazon.com/Woodrow-Wilsons-Right-Hand-Colonel/dp/0300092695/lewrockwell/

The Espionage and Sabotage Act - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3479

The Witzke Affair: German Intrigue On The Mexican Border, 1917-18 - http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci1/ch3e.htm

The Rise of Stalin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XExAieB2Xg

Dmitri Shostakovich and Soviet Censorship - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p4UsWczI1E9

Eugene Debs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Debs

Espionage Act of 1917 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act

Sedition Act of 1918 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

The Hidden History of the Espionage Act - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2010/12/the_hidden_history_of_the_espionage_act.html

Clear and Present Danger - http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Clear-and-present+danger+test

Schenck v. United States - http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Schenck+v.+United+States

Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties Under the Law, By Nancy C. Cornwell - http://books.google.com/

Language, Symbols, And the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the WTC Attack, edited by Robert E. Denton - http://books.google.com/

Submit Content to the School Sucks front page - http://schoolsucksproject.com/community/links/

Recorded live 5-23-13 with Osborne, Cory and various participants in the chat

Topic:
Our discussion grows out of an article called America is raising a generation of interns. We spend the live portion of the podcast reading the piece and discussing our issues with the writer's message. While we recognized that there are some formidable challenges for young people in today's economy, we were also very critical of entitlement mentality of many of these interns and their advocates.

Brett's Introduction: (START - 5:01)
schoolsucksproject.com - http://schoolsucksproject.com/

Submit Content to the School Sucks front page - http://schoolsucksproject.com/community/links/create/

Live Portion: (6:31 - 49:05)
The Week: America is raising a generation of interns - http://theweek.com/article/index/242065/america-is-raising-a-generation-of-interns

Non-Live Addition: (50:04 - END)
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem - http://www.scribd.com/doc/33902492/The-Six-Pillars-of-Self-Esteem

Healthy Mind, Fit Body Podcast - http://healthymindfitbody.com/category/podcast/

My recent conversation with Carlos and Tayrn of The Renegade Variety Hour. We discuss Alex Jones, mainstream media, the distracting qualities of the online experience, strategies for better attention and focus, the myth of multitasking, Nonviolent Communication and much more.

Look Closer:
Renegade Variety Hour - http://therenegadevarietyhour.tumblr.com/

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"...the truth is that you can't homeschool. You can't. Nobody can do school but school. However, the good news is that you are not supposed to do school. You are supposed to do life." - Laurette Lynn

Topic: I join Laurette Lynn (Unplugged Mom)and Justin Arman (Parents For Liberty)to discuss the incorporation of the trivium into home education, flexibility in the learning environment, and how to coexist with people who don't seem to mind living in an authoritarian world.

Look Closer:
Laurette's Website - http://www.laurettelynn.com/

Gatto: The Underground History of American Education - http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Don't Do Drugs, Stay Out of School - http://www.laurettelynn.com/book/DDDSOOS_Sample.pdf

Parents For Liberty - http://parentsforliberty.org/

No. And there's a few problems with that question.

Recorded live 5-16-13 with Osborne and Andre (NotesForRobots.com).

Topic:
Our discussion grows out of a video called Why Our Brains Get Addicted to the Internet (and How to Avoid It). We spend the live portion of the podcast evaluating our issues with and strategies for focusing while working online.

Brett's Introduction: (START - 18:21)
When ADHD has Nowhere to Hide - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/culturally-speaking/201305/when-adhd-has-nowhere-hide

Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd

INVENTOR OF ADHD'S DEATHBED CONFESSION: "ADHD IS A FICTITIOUS DISEASE" - http://www.worldpublicunion.org/2013-03-27-NEWS-inventor-of-adhd-says-adhd-is-a-fictitious-disease.html

Live Portion: (18:21 - 73:29)
MEMORY CONSOLIDATION - http://www.human-memory.net/processes_consolidation.html

Self-regulated Learning - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulated_learning

SSRI Stories - http://ssristories.com/

Carb Nite! - http://carbnite.com/

Non-Live Addition: (73:29 - END)
How to Rebuild Your Attention Span and Focus - http://lifehacker.com/5596964/how-to-rebuild-your-attention-span-and-focusl

Or at least the story of how I tried...

Topics:
-How would mental illness be addressed in a voluntary society?
-How is it being addressed today?
-Condominium collectivism and authoritarianism
-SSRIs and depression
-positive social media campaigns
-FBI terror setups

This is an edited version the 4-4-13 live show. School Sucks is live on UStream Thursdays at 6:30pm EST.
Co-Hosts: Cory

Look Closer:
The Appeal To Authority (Defined)
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Rich Paul is facing 81 years rather than become an FBI informant - http://www.examiner.com/article/rich-paul-is-facing-81-years-rather-than-become-an-fbi-informant

My conversation with Jeff Bliss, the Duncanville High School sophomore who spoke out against the spirit-crushing and mind-numbing monotony of public schooling.

Covered:
-Jeff Bliss imposters?
-The history and agenda of public school
-John Dewey
-Ron Paul and media manipulation
-John Taylor Gatto
-the proper Alex Jones dosage
-collectivism and using "we"
-the futility of reform
-the GED and college

Bumper Music:
Geto Boys, "G Code (Instrumental)"

Look Closer:
Jeff Bliss Video: Texas High School Student Demands An Education - http://www.policymic.com/articles/40959/jeff-bliss-video-texas-high-school-student-demands-an-education

http://TragedyandHope.com - http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING - http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto (Chapter 12 - The Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede, Section 15 - The General Education Board And Friends) - http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/12o.htm

Topic:
A long-awaited and frequently-requested discussion with Dan Carlin, the host of the Common Sense and Hardcore History podcasts.

Some of what we discussed:
-What happened to the media?
-Narrow-casting
-Dan's transition from radio to podcasting, how did that happen?
-The process for producing Hardcore History
-Is history shaped more by philosophy/prevailing ideologies or by accidents/wildcard events?
-The dreaded Nazi questions: could happen here? Is it happening here?
-An American way to fascism?
-Civil Libertarianism vs total libertarianism (personal and economic)
-Can we expect to maintain civil liberties with stricter economic controls?
-What kinds of people are attracted to political power?
-The problems with and politics of American schooling

Bumper Music:
Monophonics "Goliath"

Look Closer:

Dan Carlin's Site - http://www.dancarlin.com/

Recorded live 5-9-13. The one-year anniversary of the School Sucks Live Show

Topic:
This live show was recorded immediately after my 90-minute discussion with Dan Carlin (coming soon), and the gears of my brain were really turning in different ways. I wanted to discuss methods and theories for examining and interpreting history. Often history is a story told through the "Great" Man Theory, opposed to the Trends and Forces Theory. Reflecting on a series of shows I did about the Nazis, I realize that there is considerable synthesis between the two. This conversation is derailed by silliness a couple of times and also contains non-live portions.

Bumper Music:
"Airplane" Widespread Panic

Look Closer:

Ergot Poisoning - the cause of the Salem Witch Trials - http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/ergot.htm

Aspergers and SSRIs? - http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt121964.html

Napoleon's Hemorrhoids:
And Other Small Events That Changed the World - http://books.google.com/books/about/Napoleon_s_Hemorrhoids.html?id=UG4VmgEACAAJ

Dan Carlin - Hardcore History - http://www.dancarlin.com/

A one-take recording of a message to Jeff Bliss and students like him everywhere: schooling is not education

Jeff Bliss Video: Texas High School Student Demands An Education
Read More here...

Video:

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic:
A conversation about the importance of defining terms, checking premises and monitoring emotions in the pursuit of truth.

-Common logical errors
-Free Will vs. Determinism
-The Trivium and "pre-packaged" grammar
-Pentagon media manipulation
-Are humans logical?

Look Closer:

Free Will: Why Sam Harris needs to read more Philosophy - http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/07/29/free-will-why-sam-harris-needs-to-read-more-philosophy/

Compatibilism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will? By EDDY NAHMIAS - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/is-neuroscience-the-death-of-free-will/

Free Will - Ayn Rand Lexicon - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/free_will.html

130: Logic Saves Lives (Introduction) – Empowerment and Self-Defense - http://schoolsucksproject.com/130-logic-saves-lives-introduction-empowerment-and-self-defense/

Corbett Report - Episode 239 – Logic Is Not Enough
http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-239-logic-is-not-enough/

Picture: Did George Orwell have it too?

Recorded live 4-25-13 with Osborne and Tony (the School Sucks Project webmaster).

Topic:
Our discussion grows out of an Aspergers questionnaire we all took before the show. Tony and I both scored in the Aspergers range and Osborne came in just below it. We spend the show going through the questions and evaluating our related patterns of behaviors and thoughts.

Bumper Music:
"Uptown Anthem (Instrumental)" Naughty By Nature
"Airplane" Widespread Panic
"Lonestar" Norah Jones

Look Closer:
Is Asperger's Overdiagnosed? - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/aspergers-diary/201202/is-aspergers-overdiagnosed

Aspergers and SSRIs? - http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt121964.html

Asperger’s History of Overdiagnosis - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/opinion/aspergers-history-of-over-diagnosis.html?scp=1&sq=asperger&st=cse

Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles - http://www.mindtools.com/mnemlsty.html

The Nature of Educational Systems and
Their Psychological Effects on the Learner, by Wes Bertrand, 2000 - http://logicallearning.net/learnerdrivened.html

Self-regulated Learning - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulated_learning

I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly. By BENJAMIN NUGENT - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/opinion/i-had-asperger-syndrome-briefly.html?scp=2&sq=asperger&st=cse&_r=0

SSRI Stories - http://ssristories.com/

Carb Nite! - http://carbnite.com/

Author, sociologist and outspoken youth advocate Mike Males joins me share his insights on the social, political and cultural problem of blaming, shaming and framing youth. I have referenced his work several times in the past, and it was a pleasure to have him on the show.

Questions/Discussion topics:
-Genesis and purpose of your work:
-Have you examined this problem of scapegoating youth in other cultures?
-Trends you've noticed? Ebbs and flows? Is this attack on
youth getting more intense?
-Is a lot of this problem attributable to the win-lose environment of politics?
-The generalized fear of change
-The selfish and myopic Baby-boomers
-Loss of empathy for their child self
-"age-dualism"
-How does your political outlook inform your work?
-profitability of institutionalized youth
-Do you see Individualism /self-interest as dirty words?
-Lowering the voting age?

What is the call to action for young people, towards a solution?
What is the call to action for concerned adults?

Bumper Music:
"Wandering Child" Government Mule

Look Closer:
National Youth Rights Association - http://www.youthrights.org/
Youth Facts - http://youthfacts.org/
CIRCLE - http://www.civicyouth.org/
The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents - http://www.amazon.com/The-Scapegoat-Generation-Americas-Adolescents/dp/1567510809

On Monday (4-22-13) I co-hosted Liberty Conspiracy Live with Gardner. Here are his show notes:

In this program, we welcome our friend Brett Veinotte, the founder of the School Sucks Project, and the man behind School Sucks Podcasts and the School Sucks videos on Youtube (and elsewhere). Brett and Gardner Goldsmith discuss many of their thoughts about the inability of various government agencies to protect people from terrorist attacks, and the manner in which police and politicians responded to the Boston attacks. They also talk about the conspiracy theories, and how hard it is getting to poo-poo all the theories, especially when one looks at the terrible things the US government (and others) have done to create False Flag situations, and to hide their mistakes or lack of initiative to stop real terror attacks. We hope you like this one. We think it's very worthwhile.

Music? Well, as Gard mentions, the first cut is from the Fixx's first album, "Shuttered Room". It's called "The Strain". The whole album is great. Next... a little touch of Killing Joke (the end of "War Dance"), A hint of WIRE "Agfers of Kodak", Love Spit Love with The Prisoner (the song is "More Than Money"), The Cocteau Twins (singing in Gaelic here) with "Lorelei", Clutch "The Soapmakers", Agent Provocateur "Red Tape", Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized", The Sons of Liberty "When in the Course" and The Horrors "Who Can Say"

Look Closer:
Liberty Conspiracy - http://libertyconspiracy.com/
Why 'Control' Is the Wrong Response to Deadly Attacks - http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/19/why-control-is-the-wrong-response-to-dea

Show notes from Two Beers With Steve:

In this week's show we revisit a question from the last podcast, is society truly progressing? To help us answer the question we have a round table discussion. Hosts Steve and Chris are joined by previous guests Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast and Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project. Listen to the show to discover why we almost titled this episode "The Philosophy of Hookers."

Look Closer:
Complete Liberty - http://completeliberty.com/
Thaddeus Russell's Site - www.thaddeusrussell.com

Another long-overdue conversation, this time with James Corbett, RT contributor and host of the Corbett Report:

Topics:
-James discusses his wake-up process
-Adam Curtis films: Century of the Self and the Power of Nightmares
-Al Qaeda doesn't exist
-teaching elementary school in Japan
-The pervasiveness of the Prussian Model
-Japanese collectivism
-MSNBC Promo: children are property of the "community"
-Collectivism vs. Individualism
-America's history of abandoning personal independence?
-Audience Q&A on religion, Molyneux/Wilcutts debate

Look Closer:
Corbett Report - http://www.corbettreport.com/

A long-overdue conversation with Dayna Martin, author of Radical Unschooling:

Topics:
-Dayna discusses her family's recent appearance on the ABC reality show, Wife Swap
-How do you prepare children for public scrutiny
-The Life Rocks Conference
-Outreach and advocacy in different situations
-Tragic misconceptions about the role of a parent
-Nonviolent Communication

Look Closer:
The Martins On Wife Swap (Full Episode) - http://abc.go.com/watch/wife-swap/SH5539547/VDKA0_lgk9v6h5/avery-lamb--martin

Dayna's Site - http://daynamartin.com/

Martin Family Blog - http://thesparklingmartins.blogspot.com/

Topic: Jeremy Frandsen of Internet Business Mastery Academy joins me to explore how one can transform an intrinsically motivated pursuit into a livelihood. I was motivated to contact Jeremy after reading his blog post, The Secret to Endless Motivation.

Discussion:
-What is the the mission of Internet Business Mastery
-Podcasting in the Beginning
-The Single Motivating Purpose
-The importance of Voluntary Value Exchange
-Finding A Niche
-Trail and Error
-The $100 Start-Up
-Ways you can tell that starting a business is an intrinsic pursuit
-A checklist for taking action

Bumper Music:
"Woodstock" Crosby, Stills and Nash

Look Closer:
Internet Business Mastery Academy - http://internetbusinessmastery.com/

Complete Liberty Podcast - http://completeliberty.com/

Ayn Rand Lexicon - http://aynrandlexicon.com/

The $100 Start-Up - http://100startup.com/

Topic:
Building on the previous conversation about learning theories, I cover the basics of learning styles and strategies, motivation, cognition, habits and environment.

-The Seven Learning Styles
-Self-Regulated Learning
-The Index of Learning Styles

Bumper Music:
"Freedom" Wham

Look Closer:
Learning Styles: Appealing But Misleading - http://www.globalcognition.org/head-smart/learning-styles-appealing-misleading/

Paul Pintrich: Framework for self-regulated learning - http://www.globalcognition.org/head-smart/learning-about-learning-take-charge/

Overview of Learning Styles - http://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/

Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles - http://www.mindtools.com/mnemlsty.html

The Nature of Educational Systems and
Their Psychological Effects on the Learner, by Wes Bertrand, 2000 - http://logicallearning.net/learnerdrivened.html

Self-regulated Learning - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-regulated_learning

Harold Pashler's Work - http://laplab.ucsd.edu/publications

One Hundred Ways to Motivate Yourself - http://books.google.com/books/about/One_Hundred_Ways_to_Motivate_Yourself.html?id=RFBsSKn_rNUC

Topics:
1. John, the Admin of the Libertarian Teachers Group at schoolsucksproject.com, posted an interesting piece in the forum called Learning Theories and their Subsequent Pedagogy – Which one is most Libertarian?
2. Osborne and I discuss this post on our 3-21-13 live show, and I read a paperI wrote in 2002 called "My Philosophy of Education", written for an Intro to Education class.
3. I provide more detail of the newest of the learning theories: connectivism
4. I try to answer the question, Which learning theory is most Libertarian?

Full Discussion:

Objectivism (5 Branches of Philosophy)
1. Metaphysics
2. Epistemology-Logic
3. Ethics
4. Politics
5. Aesthetics

Metaphysical Laws
1. Identity
2. Causality
3. Non-Contradiction

Bumper Music:
"I'll Do Anything" Jason Mraz

Look Closer:
Learning Theories Info_Graphic - http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/learning-theories-every-teacher-should.html

Key Terms for Cognitivism and Constructivism - http://www.coe.fau.edu/faculty/cafolla/courses/eme6051/cognitivism.htm

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Metaphysics - http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Metaphysics

Ayn Rand Lexicon - http://aynrandlexicon.com/

An Introduction to Objectivism Part1 - Lecture by Leonard Peikoff - http://youtu.be/cW-xUEYaBnU

Trivium - http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Index of Learning Theories and Models - http://www.learning-theories.com/

I host the Freedomain Radio Sunday Call-In Show in the place of Stefan Molyneux. Thank you to Stef, Michael and James. This show is unedited and was recorded live on 3-24-13.

Set List:
-Is Liberty a Movement?
-Liberty is personal
-Being a hater is easy...
-My transformation
-Appealing to emotion
-Stef's view of the family
-Sudbury School
-Democracy and negotiation
-Could any kind of school be beneficial?
-Costs of keeping up with the Joneses
-Bullying people with the truth
-Nonviolent communication
-Being a hater is easy...(reprise)
-Living consciously
-Unschooling is not unparenting
-cost-prohibitive educational alternatives
-Push marketing
-Connecting with peers
-Twelve-Step programs
-The Secret
-College advice
The A/V Club

Look Closer:

Freedomain Radio
http://www.freedomainradio.com/

Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Nathaniel-Branden/dp/0553265881

The Heart of Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Action
http://www.parentingwithpresence.net/index.php?pageid=970

Picture: The alternative name and nutritional value of most online, cable news, political and religious debates.

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic:
A conversation about balancing a knowledge of logic with emotional intelligence and effective communication strategies. It originates from a forum post in the Logic Saves Lives Group called "Using logical fallacies as a form of bullying."

We watch and discuss this video:

Authenticity: (how NVC becomes natural)
Do you want to want to have a meaningful connection with the person?
What are your intentions? NVC is not a script; it's a language that you speak to yourself first. If you're not interested in cooperating or even connecting with a person or acknowledging their humanity, using NVC language will not work.

Fallacies Covered:
Fallacy Fallacy
Presupposition/Loaded Language
Straw Man Fallacy
Reductio ad Absurdum

Look Closer:

lifeishowitis's channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeishowitis?feature=watch

The argumentative theory of reasoning
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/anand.vaidya/courses/c5/s2/Why%20Do%20Humans
%20Reason%20Sperber.pdf

Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (Summary)
http://www.tommcmahon.net/2003/12/the_six_pillars.html

How Cognitive Distortions Cause Emotional Distress
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/popular.html

How to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_59.htm

NATURALIZING NVC
http://schoolsucksproject.com/community/links/naturalizing-nvc/

Show notes from First Degree Liberty Brett Veinotte of School Sucks Podcast joins Chase and Mike to talk about media propaganda. In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the media has been turning up the propaganda in order to create a sense of fear over guns. Brett helps the guys analyze the mainstream media's approach, and introduces the guys to his work.

Check out Brett's work at www.schoolsucksproject.com

Here's a link to the clip with Soledad O'Brien Vs. John Lott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C6Wkkabcbs

The clip of JOe Scarborough's Morning Joe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlR0CYvPJU

Larry Pratt Vs. Piers Morgan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOV6_42xe4

And finally, check out this clip of journalist Ben Swan's segment called "Fact Check" for a rebuttle to the so called "facts" that Piers Morgan has been using:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83015186/

Look Closer:
First Degree Liberty
http://firstdegreeliberty.podomatic.com/

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Photo: David explains the trillion dollar coin.

Topic: A conversation with comedian and Emmy-nominated writer David Angelo. As a long-time fan of David's, I was very excited to learn about his You Tube channel eEconomics.

Discussion:
-Influences/What inspired you to start this channel?
-Economic literacy in Hollywood
-College economics, all Keynes
-Hollywood politics
-Stand-up audiences
-Angelo vs. Chomsky
-My praise for David's comedy style
-Twitter

Bumper Music:
Slick Rick, "Children's Story (Instrumental)"

Look Closer:
eEconomics on You Yube - http://www.youtube.com/user/eEconomics/videos?view=0&flow=grid

David's Website - http://www.davidangelo.info/

David's Twitter - https://twitter.com/dwangelo

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(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part Five)
An eye-opening discussion with historian Thaddeus Russell, the author of A Renegade History of the United States.

-A Renegade History (synopsis)
-The question of morality
-Bernays and marketing
-Thaddeus vents about public education

Recorded at the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Look Closer:
Thaddeus Russell's Site - www.thaddeusrussell.com
Thaddeus On Stossel - http://youtu.be/xpelVE7trK0
ReasonTV: What Happened to the Antiwar Movement? - youtu.be/N_VHEts3fqk
Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History - www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/fired-teaching-american-history_b_767172.html

(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part Five)
An awesome discussion with Jeffrey Tucker, the Laissez Faire Club's Primus Inter Pares.

-Jeffrey's teenage resume
-Child Labor and liberation
-Ideal learning times and the value of work
-Fashion advice
-Conformity vs. social attentiveness
-Career and money-management advice

Recorded at the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Look Closer:
Laissez Faire Club - http://lfb.org/
Kids: Smarter Than Adults, by Jeffrey Tucker - http://lfb.org/today/kids-smarter-than-adults/

(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part Four)
A discussion with Derrick J. Freeman, the subject of the documentary Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree and the host and creator of Peace News Now.

-School outreach and student Stockholm Syndrome
-School lesson: all activists are crazy
-Civil disobedience and public relations
-Self-critiques of civil disobedience
-The mission of Peace News Now

Recorded at the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Look Closer:
Live Free Or Dance - http://livefreeordance.com/
Peace News Now - http://peacenewsnow.com/

(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part Three)
A quick(2-segment)discussion with Stephanie Murphy and Brian Sovryn about School Sucks and my teaching experience, recorded at the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Look Closer:
Porc Therapy - http://www.porctherapy.com/

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(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part Two)
Neal from Flaming Freedom joins Osborne and me for a discussion at the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Discussion:
-UNESCO Schools and the International Baccalaureate(IB)Program
-American History through the Book of Mormon
-Euphemism: "Single-Party Rulers"
-Hegel and Marx
-discovering the philosophy of liberty in high school
-the 2004 Presidential Election
-How gays were co-opted by the state

Look Closer:
Flaming Freedom - http://flamingfreedom.com/
Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland - http://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-One-Lesson-David-Bergland/dp/0940643006
International Baccalaureate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate

Other Shows On These Topics:
155: No Child Left Behind (and Other Bi-Partisan Education Conspiracies)

144: Humanizing Hegel (Brett On the Corbett Report With Richard Grove and Tony Myers)

135: The American Way Expanded (2 of 3): Pyromania

134: The American Way Expanded (1 of 3): The Gasoline-Soaked House

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(2013 NH Liberty Forum Series, Part One)
Kate and Gardner join Osborne and me for an impromptu live cast from the 2013 New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Discussion:
-Sound check and School Sucks mascot discussion (until 11:45)
-Kate's speech
-Sudbury School
-dangers and confusion of democracy

Look Closer:
Liberty Conspiracy - http://libertyconspiracy.com/
Network for Educational Opportunity - http://networkforeducation.org/

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Topic: Darrell calls in to discuss his concern that his understandably negative attitude towards public school might not be the best motivator for his teenage son.

Discussion:
-The importance of balance in life
-Tutoring frustrations and resignation
-The opportunities created by school performance and military service?
-How the schools feed the military
-Deferring happiness and self-actualization for the promise of a later payoff

Look Closer:
Schools Are For War
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/05/schools-are-for-war.html

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Some new details on the history of compulsory schooling

Topic: We discuss an email question from a student. It reads: I'm a 15 year old guy in 9th grade (in public school) and wanted to ask you a question. So if all people in America are supposedly guaranteed the rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, how is it not considered "unconstitutional" for kids to be forced to go to school? I do not want to go to school, so isn't that infringing on my liberty and pursuit of happiness?

Discussion:
-Court decisions on compulsory attendance in 12-step programs in the adult world
-John Taylor Gatto's The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
-Home Education Laws and Regulations
-Defenses of state compulsory schooling laws (1872, B.G. Northrop, Secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Education)
-Home School Legal Defense Association

Look Closer:
Compulsory Attendance
http://honestedu.org/essays/novello/compulsory.php

The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131729409335343

The Courts and Coerced 12-Step Attendance
http://www.morerevealed.com/library/resist/r_chap_4.htm

HSLDA: Withdrawing from public school
http://www.hslda.org/landingpages/withdrawing-from-public-school.asp

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Jason Osborne and I review the Sudbury Valley School, based on our experiences at a recent open house, conversations with students and staff, and some additional research. Wes Bertrand joins us to share his insights.

Covered:
-The physical plant and amenities of the Framingham school
-Judicial Review and the school meeting
-Maria Montessori
-Political connections and implications

Look Closer:
Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

Happiness Counseling
http://happinesscounseling.com/

Education: Class Dismissed
It's every modern parent's worst nightmare—a school where kids can play all day. But no one takes the easy way out, and graduates seem to have a head start on the information age. Welcome to Sudbury Valley.
By Hara Estroff Marano, published on May 01, 2006
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200604/education-class-dismissed

Sudbury Valley School Website
http://www.sudval.org/

And Now for Something Completely Different...
An Introduction to Sudbury Valley School

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Topic: An introduction to the Sudbury Valley School, which has provided a model for alternatives schools all over the world.
I read from the school's publication, And Now for Something Completely Different...
An Introduction to Sudbury Valley School

Covered:
-An overview of the original school in Framingham, MA
-Sudbury Principles and Foundations
-Back To Basics - Intellectual, Vocational, Moral, Social, Political

Look Closer:

Education: Class Dismissed
It's every modern parent's worst nightmare—a school where kids can play all day. But no one takes the easy way out, and graduates seem to have a head start on the information age. Welcome to Sudbury Valley.
By Hara Estroff Marano, published on May 01, 2006
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200604/education-class-dismissed

Sudbury Valley School Website
http://www.sudval.org/

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(Audio to a video)
After my last two guests, both high school students (my target audience), credited Adam Kokesh as an influence, I wanted to extend an invitation to him.

He joins us to discuss a variety of topics, including his often provocative interviews and demonstrations on the very mean streets of Washington DC. Despite his surroundings, Adam remains an enthusiastic optimist. I wanted to hear why. We continue on to his bright vision of the future.

Adam's site: http://www.adamvstheman.com/

Photo: One high school history teacher is working hard to get his students excited about America's next military target.

Topic: Sam, a high school senior and host of the You Tube channel Liberty Queenjoins me to discuss her self-education in spite of being trapped in government school.

Discussion:
-Influences/What inspired you to start this channel?
-Ron Paul and the pointless, pugilistic nature of politics
-What is the school experience like after coming to understand the ideas of liberty?
-dealing with a warmonger teacher
-The pledge of allegiance
-The gun debate
-Why freedom is a personal pursuit

Bumper Music:
High School Musical 2: 'All for One' Music Video

Look Closer:
Liberty Queen
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtjN4hvDyM5K-kqf0R7UAoQ

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Topic: Drew Demeter joins us to discuss his self-education and his You Tube channel, Teen Take. View and subscribe here: Teen Take

This is the full audio version of SchoolSucksTV #5

Discussion:
-Influences/What inspired you to start this channel?
-Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura
-What is the school experience like after coming to understand the ideas of liberty?
-The pledge of allegiance
-The concept of "equality"
-the type of equality libertarians care about

The podcast version includes our full discussion, which also covers
-Monsanto and eugenics?
-The conspiracy context and jumping the gun

Bumper Music:
da Ocarina of Time - Gerudo Valley on Marimba

Look Closer:
Teen Take
http://www.youtube.com/user/teentake

TheAlexJonesChannel
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura
http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/index.html

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Topic: Today I am joined by Tom Woods - historian, economist, political analyst, and author. Tom wrote the 2004 New York Times bestseller, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, as well as
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. His latest book is Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse

Discussion:
BACKGROUND
Tom survived Harvard and Columbia
How did he come to be a libertarian?

HISTORY
There's a lot of people today who haven't learned from history
telling us about the importance of learning from history

Last week we had the inauguration
In 2009 with the economic "crisis," the popular theme for the mainstream media was FDR and Great Depression

As Obama's first term was coming to an end the media and Hollywood, who provide talking points and set agendas, began encouraging the masses to make associations between Lincoln and Obama, or at least get people thinking about the "heroics" of Lincoln
-Burton's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer
-Spielberg's even more ridiculous film, based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals
-media starts using the term Civil War for the gun issue
-then Obama is sworn in on Lincoln's Bible
-then Obama's speech is compared to Lincoln's second inaugural address

Lincoln - both parties want to claim him because the lesson is that there is no abuse or overreach of presidential power that could not be justified for a greater good

LIBERTY CLASSROOM
-why we need accurate history and sensible economics education now more than ever

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
-these stories are absent from the government school narrative

Look Closer:
Tom's Website
http://www.tomwoods.com/

Liberty Classroom
http://www.libertyclassroom.com/

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Topic: I was very pleased to invited as a guest on Two Beers With Steve. I have listened to several of their interviews and I highly recommend this show to others.

Discussed:
-What have I learned from students?
-What if I have to send my child to government school?
-Parents as school enforcers
-Timetables for learning certain things
-Parent and child, voluntary vs. coerced relationships
-Resentments
-Permissive Parenting
-Parent Effectiveness Training
-Technology and kids

Look Closer:
Two Beers With Steve
http://www.twobeerswithsteve.com/

Montessori education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
http://www.gordontraining.com/parent-programs/parent-effectiveness-training-p-e-t/

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Topic: Lenore Skenazy joins me to discuss the Free Range Kids movement, and strategies for reaching out to helicopter parents. We also explore the trends that have led to the panic, paranoia and over-protective nature of so many parents today.

Look Closer:

Free Range Kids - Blog
http://www.freerangekids.com/

Lenore's reality show - World’s Worst Mom
http://www.freerangekids.com/tv-show/

Free Range Kids - Book
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Range-Raise-Self-Reliant-Children-Without/dp/0470574755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342367313&sr=8-1&keywords=free+range+kids

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
http://experiencelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/70-the-six-pillars-of-self-esteem.pdf

Lenore On The View
http://theview.abc.go.com/video/hot-topics-free-range-kids

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Topic: Cory and I discuss some of his recent social media conflicts over the gun issue. We also discuss the presentation of and political discourse on this topic in the month since the Newtown shooting.

-The purpose of politics?
-An NVC approach to this issue
-Statistics

Look Closer:

Complete Liberty Episode 132 - Cultural roots of authoritarianism in need of nonviolent communication
http://completeliberty.com/magazine/read/episode-132---cultural-roots-of-authoritarianism-in-need-of-nonviolent-communication_124.html

NVC - needs inventory
http://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory

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By popular demand: another show about Alex Jones. This is an After School Sucks Special recorded on July 26th, 2012, shortly after the shooting in Colorado.

Brian Hagen, Allen Murdoch and I discuss various concerns and criticisms of Alex Jones and infowars.com. This is optional listening.

Look Closer:
Join the A/V Club
http://schoolsucksproject.com/join/

Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

Cognitive Distortions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion

InfoWars
http://www.infowars.com/

The Skeptical Libertarian
http://www.skepticallibertarian.com/

Wheels Off Liberty
http://www.wheelsoffliberty.com/

...vs. Reason, Manners, Composure, Meaningful Communication and Philosophy

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Tony Myers (TragedyAndHope.com) and I discuss what is troubling us about Alex Jones, Piers Morgan, and the current gun control debate.

Look Closer:
Starsuckers(Documentary)
http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/

Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

Cognitive Distortions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

How Cognitive Distortions Cause Emotional Distress
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/popular.html

Argumentum Ad Populum
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/popular.html

Argumentum Ad Hominem
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html

Straw Man Fallacy
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

The Existential Fallacy
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/existen.htm

Topic: Stefan Molyneux, Osborne and I continue our discussion, shifting to questions about parenting challenges and frustrations.

-Christmas, gift-giving and entitlement
-Youth marketing
-The Problem of Daycare
-Why do people have kids?
-Why did Stef have a kid?

This show was recorded live on 1-5-12. School Sucks is live on UStream Saturdays at 6pm EST.

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Freedomain Radio
http://www.freedomainradio.com/

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Topic: Stefan Molyneux and I discuss the anger and frustration that many people encounter after discovering the message of liberty.

Context: When people become aware of the philosophy of liberty, many will feel anger, betrayal and paranoia...
Is this why they often gravitate to politics first? Because it's such an appropriate outlet for those emotions? After another season of political hopefulness, reality sets in.

Discussion: What to do next?

-Political action vs. peaceful parenting
-Acknowledging and dealing with resentments
-Denormalizing parental treatment to be a better parent
-Anger as an opportunity
-"Real-Time" relationships

This show was recorded live on 1-5-12. School Sucks is live on UStream Saturdays at 6pm EST.

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Freedomain Radio
http://www.freedomainradio.com/

Breaking Free by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Nathaniel-Branden/dp/0553265881

The Heart of Parenting: Nonviolent Communication in Action
http://www.parentingwithpresence.net/index.php?pageid=970

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The new website is up! HUGE thanks to Tony Sage, our webmaster.

Topic: Cory, Celestina and I discuss what many may consider predatory practices in modern advertising and 360-degree marketing to children. While these techniques have become more sophisticated with the arrival of new media, they still rely on the basic tricks that adults have been falling for since the mid-1920s.

-Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Documentary)
-Government intervention in media, Federal Trade Commission
-Edward Bernays

This show was recorded live on 12-27-12. School Sucks is live on UStream Saturdays at 6pm EST.

Look Closer:

Propaganda (1928)by Edward Bernays
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

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"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." -Alphonse Karr
Translation: The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing

Pursuing a topic that I wish was less relevant...Cory, Matt and I discuss the political and cultural reaction to the Stanley Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange, based on a book by the same name, written by Anthony Burgess. Please be patient with this show.

Society's decision-makers, opinion-manipulators and their loyal followers frantically search for scapegoats when deeper problems manifest in an immediate crisis or tragedy. I believe they do this to avoid looking at culture, government, traditions, parenting, institutions...and most importantly, the self.

Authentic, meaningful examination is just too overwhelming, compared the to ease of blaming youth, permissiveness, too many guns, not enough guns, violence in film, foreigners, video games, the corrupting influence of reading novels, not enough medication, witches, lack of socialized medicine, music, the absence of prayer in schools, not enough school, the New World Order, too much freedom, etc...

Topic 1: Discussion of the film
Style, Meaning, Easter Eggs, Technique, etc...

Topic 2: Context, Britain at that time (1971)
Liberalization vs Tradition

Topic 3: Reaction to the film
And the relevance to today

This is an edited version of the 12-13-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
Sir George Solti "Ode to Joy"
Zero 7 "In the Waiting Line"

Look Closer:
The Clockwork Controversy, by Christian Bugge
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0012.html

A Clockwork Orange - Film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_%28film%29

Matt's Site - NH Novella
http://nhnovella.com/

A Clockwork Orange, 40th Anniversary Documentary - Still Ticking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPW8Ek1BNSA&playnext=1&list=PL85D330A544F73C3C&feature=results_main

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Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Wes Bertrand (Complete Liberty Podcast) and I discuss cognitive distortions, exaggerated and irrational thoughts common in thinking about self, society, politics and relationships. Cognitive distortions can interfere with our most sincere efforts to think in a clear, consistent and logical manner.

Bumper Music:
"Woodstock" Crosby, Stills and Nash

Look Closer:
Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

Happiness Counseling
http://happinesscounseling.com/

Cognitive Distortions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

How Cognitive Distortions Cause Emotional Distress
http://www.gapsychology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=217

What is a Cognitive Bias?
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cognitive-bias.htm

Cognitive Restructuring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_restructuring

Mood Repair Strategies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_repair_strategies

The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
http://books.google.com

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"Often wrong but never in doubt." -Reason.com (on political reasoning)

Topic: Osborne, Marcus and I discuss the Reason.com article, Study Shows Smart Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians Are Easiest to Fool by Ron Bailey. Osborne raises some important questions about the validity of the studies presented in the article.

This is an edited version of the 12-6-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
Cognitive Distortions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion

The Nothing Project - One-Man Band
http://www.nothingproject.com/

Brainless Tales
http://www.brainlesstales.com/

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Presence vs. Urgency

Topic: A listener named Tim calls in to discuss his remorse about raising his voice with his young children.

This is a segment from the 12-6-12 After School Sucks Special, with an additional non-live monologue. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

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Stephanie Mattei of the Consciously Parenting Project interviews Jorge to discuss parenting with an NVC approach
http://www.vivenciawork.com/media.html

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I found an irresistible book in a used book store called Everything You Know Is Wrong. It was a compilation of articles by alternative media journalists, revisionist historians, and social commentators, which included a piece by Mike Males entitled "Myths About Youth."

Since I could not find this article on the web, I decided to share it here.
Topics include teen violence, teen drug use, teen suicide, teen sex, the anti-youth agendas of special interests...and the inevitable crackdowns.

Look Closer:
Mike Males Articles
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/

Trashing Teens: Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200703/trashing-teens

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Topic: Two events in the past few weeks have forced me to think more intensely about my career choice and to contemplate where it is ultimately taking me. It will all be explained in the show.

This is a selection of segments from the 11-29-12 live show, with an additional non-live monologue. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Introduction:

Discussed:

Look Closer:
Meet the "Tutor Kings and Queens" By Yojana Sharma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20085558

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Lose-Lose Parenting: Tough Love, "Last Resorts" and Public Shaming

A stream of consciousness show, in response to a story about the Florida parents who publicly shamed their 15-year-old daughter as a "last resort" act of "tough love."

“We’re losing a lot of kids and a lot of teachers because we still view challenging kids the wrong way and handle them in ways that don’t address their true difficulties. It's an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, and it’s time to get off the treadmill.” Ross Greene, Lost At School

Picture(Clockwise from top-left):
1. 17th century Puritan New England
2. 19th century American South
3. Communist China
4. Florida, 2012

Look Closer:
Parents Shame Daughter for Sneaking Boys In, Make Her Wear Sign
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Parents-Shame-Daughter-for-Sneaking-Boys-In-Make-Her-Wear-Sign-309266.shtml

Trashing Teens: Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200703/trashing-teens

Father forces seventh grade son stand street wearing sign failing grades
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113691/Father-forces-seventh-grade-son-stand-street-wearing-sign-failing-grades.html

Dr. Ross Greene, Lives In the Balance
http://www.livesinthebalance.org/solving-problems-collaboratively

Dr. Ross Greene, Simple Plan B (Example)
http://www.livesinthebalance.org/simple-plan-b

Trashing Teens: Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200703/trashing-teens

Dayna Martin: 'I let my children do whatever they want'
http://gulfnews.com/life-style/people/i-let-my-children-do-whatever-they-want-1.1108729

Topic: Osborne and I celebrate Thanksgiving by discussing a more accurate account of the Pilgrim arrival in the Massachusetts Bay area in 1620, what happened beforehand, and what unfolded next.

Why is this story so important to American mythology?
From which important truths is it misdirecting our collective attention?
What are the lost opportunities for government school history students?

This is the full 11-22-12 live show, with an additional segment taken from the After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
The True Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Birth of Private Enterprise in America by Richard M. Ebeling
http://defenseofcapitalism.blogspot.com/2009/11/true-meaning-of-thanksgiving-birth-of.html

Appeal to tradition
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

First Thanksgiving,Red Eyes,
Invisibility of Racism (excerpted from the book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen)
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/First_Thanksgiving_LMTTM.html

Gatto: The Underground History of American Education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: An investigation of a very compelling conspiracy theory involving a visionary film maker, the media, the final frontier, the government and a fight against my own confirmation bias.

The fallacies covered in this show can all be categorized under Fallacies of Omission, where essential material is left out of an argument or the presenter deliberately misdirects others from crucial information (or lack thereof).

This group includes:
-The Loaded Question
-Stacking the Deck, or Cherry Picking
-The Argument From the Negative
-The Appeal to Ignorance
-Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

Also covered:
-Backround knowledge, Grammer
-Rhetorical Styles in documentaries
-The Concept of Unfalsifiablity
-Kubrick's methods

This podcast includes the edited 11-15-12 live show, the after-show and additional non-live segments. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full video version of this podcast, recorded live, click here.

Bumper Music:
"Your Wildest Dreams" The Moody Blues

To resume the discussion with Sam from where we left off on the podcast, jump to 41:50 in this video.

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

How a NASA Lens became Kubrick’s Obsession
http://filmmakeriq.com/2012/03/how-a-nasa-lens-became-kubricks-obsession/

The Secrets of The Shining?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/luna/luna_apollomissions10.htm

Alchemical Kubrick, 2001: The Great Work On Film, by Jay Weidner
http://www.alchemylab.com/alchemical_kubrick.htm

Red Ice Radio - Jay Weidner - Hr 1 - Kubrick's Odyssey: How Stanley Faked the Moon Landings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_00nQHdOHuw

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Moon - Documentary-ish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZiGgfBh2x0

Myth Busters Episode 104: NASA Moon Landing
http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing

My recent discussion with Rodney Smith from The Freedom Experiment Podcast.

Topics:
-Collectivism in the African-America community
-The myths of the Great Society
-Obama
-The forfeiting of individual identity
-Coming to terms to be spanked and being a spanker
-Nonviolent Communication
-The problems in college athletics
-Lessons of baseball

Look Closer:
The Freedom Experiment Podcast
http://therodneysmith.podomatic.com/

What are the forces and ideas preventing children from attaining autonomy?

Topics:
-Child labor laws
-Governnment regulation of apprenticeship programs
-Emancipation
-Age restrictions
-The legality of child abuse
-Some pretty bad jokes

Look Closer:
SexLiesAnarchy.com/
http://sexliesanarchy.com/

Trashing Teens: Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200703/trashing-teens

G. Stanley Hall: The Inventor of Adolescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Stanley_Hall

School: Don't try this at home!

"...the truth is that you can't homeschool. You can't. Nobody can do school but school. However, the good news is that you are not supposed to do school. You are supposed to do life." - Laurette Lynn

Topic: Laurette Lynn joins Osborne and me to discuss her new book, Don't Do Drugs, Stay Out of School. This show provides a good introduction and some elaboration on the topics Laurette and I frequently discuss on our shows.

This is the full 11-8-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
Laurette's Website
http://www.laurettelynn.com/

Gatto: The Underground History of American Education
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Today's show is a personal exercise to help me let go of a long-standing resentment against comedian and political commentator Bill Maher. Cory, Osborne and I analyze several clips from his HBO show, Real Time With Bill Maher, primarily focusing on two fallacies: composition and division. Many tangents result!

Composition: This fallacy is a result of reasoning from the properties of the parts of the whole to the properties of the whole itself--it is an inductive error.

Division: This fallacy is the reverse of composition. It is the misapplication of deductive reasoning. One fallacy of division argues falsely that what is true of the whole must be true of individual parts.
Source: Logical Fallacies Handlist

"The process of forming and applying concepts contains the essential pattern of two fundamental methods of cognition: induction and deduction.

The process of observing the facts of reality and of integrating them into concepts is, in essence, a process of induction. The process of subsuming new instances under a known concept is, in essence, a process of deduction." -Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (p28)

This is an edited version the 11-1-12 live show with additional non-live segments. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
"Kickstart My Heart" Motley Crue

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Handlist
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html

Hasty Generalization
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html#hasty_generalization_anchor

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Logical Fallacy: Tu Quoque
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

HBO: Real Time With Bill Maher
http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html

Catallaxy describes a "self-organizing system of voluntary co-operation" -Friedrich Hayek

Topic: A doctoral candidate named John, who currently teaches in Hawaii, calls in to the after-show to discuss education as a self-organizing system. He references a TED Talk by Sugata Mitra and some interesting outcomes from the One Laptop Per Child project in Ethiopia.

Excerpt: "We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."

This is a portion the 11-1-12 After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

Catallaxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy

Topic: Mark Edge and Ian Freeman, the hosts of Free Talk Live, join Osborne, Cory and me for a discussion about punishments and rewards, and peaceful parenting. The primary question driving our conversation: do incentives work? But is that really the right question?

This is an edited version the 10-25-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
"Damn Right I Got the Blues" Buddy Guy
"Revival" Allman Brothers

Look Closer:
Free Talk Live
http://www.freetalklive.com/

Street Giraffe
http://www.wiseheartpdx.org/post/128

An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
http://happinesscounseling.com/NVC_Intro.pdf

Punished by Rewards? A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/pdf/Punished%20by%20Rewards.pdf

Parenting from Your Heart, by Inbal Kashtan
http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/inbal_kashtan.html

10 Principles of Unconditional Parenting
http://rainbowrecognizer.hubpages.com/hub/10-Principles-of-Unconditional-Parenting

Secrets of Happy Parents Radio Show MP3: Unconditional Parenting with Alfie Kohn, author of Unconditional Parenting
http://www.ahaparenting.com/radio-shows/unconditional-parenting

The Argument From Morality...Or, how we will win, by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html

A Brief History of Ethics (Part 1) - Freedomain Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxmRYKnCDRg

"How to Win Political Arguments" Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain Radio Speaks in New Hampshire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD_1nbahAts

Topic: Wes Bertrand joins me to discuss Nathaniel Branden's book, Breaking Free. Wes is currently doing on series on this book on Complete Liberty Podcast.

"Do you believe you're worthless? Ineffectual? Mediocre? Helpless? Nathaniel Branden, best selling author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem introduces a revolutionary method to show you how repressed feelings and forgotten past experiences may have shaped your current sense of self.

Through dramatized case studies, Branden reveals how responding to these key questions can expose you to new ways of thinking about yourself and your past. Breaking Free will liberate you from your inhibitions and allow you to have a greater sense of yourself and your true potential.." -GoodReads.com

Complete Liberty Episode 165 - Breaking Free, part 1
Complete Liberty Episode 167 - Breaking Free, part 2
Complete Liberty Episode 170 - Breaking Free, part 3
Complete Liberty Episode 171 - Breaking Free, part 4
Complete Liberty Episode 172 - Breaking Free, part 5

This is an edited version the 10-18-12 Ustream-only live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
"Be Good, Johnny" Men At Work
"Can We Start Again" Tindersticks

Look Closer:
Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

NathanielBranden.com
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/

An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
http://happinesscounseling.com/NVC_Intro.pdf

Happiness Counseling Resource Page
http://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources/

You Made It Weird Podcast With Pete Holmes
http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/you-made-it-weird/

Picture: Immanuel Kant and his shadow

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Wes Bertrand (Complete Liberty Podcast) joins me to discuss what he calls the fallacy to rule them all - the stolen concept.

"When modern philosophers declare that axioms are a matter of arbitrary choice, and proceed to choose complex, derivative concepts as the alleged axioms of their alleged reasoning, one can observe that their statements imply and depend on “existence,” “consciousness,” “identity,” which they profess to negate, but which are smuggled into their arguments in the form of unacknowledged, “stolen” concepts." -Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (p59–60)

This is an edited version the 10-18-12 Ustream-only live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full, unedited video show, click here.

Bumper Music:
"Cypher(Instrumental)" Duke West Lake
"Head Over Heals" Tears For Fears

Look Closer:
Complete Liberty Podcast
http://completeliberty.com/

The Self-Refuting Idea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-refuting_idea

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

The Stolen Concept, by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/the-stolen-concept/

Picture: From school to self-education...and so much more

The show is on hiatus until the end of the month. In the meantime, here is an unreleased live show from a couple months ago.

Topics:
-Cognitive Bias
-Sidney Roc from Gaming and Liberty Podcast calls in to discuss behaviorism and gaming
-Cory and I discuss the difference between schooling and education
-Cory and I discuss our work frustrations
-Transitioning from school to self-education

This is an edited version the 8-2-12 show After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
"A Man of Many Words" Buddy Guy and Junior Wells

Look Closer:
The Underground History
of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

Tips on Nurturing Your Child’s Curiosity
http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/social-emotional-development/tips-on-nurturing-your-childs-curiosity.html

How I Would Unschool My Kids
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/07/how-i-would-unschool-my-kids/

Help John Taylor Gatto:
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Topic:
Cory, Osborne and I discuss a new documentary film about psychopathy, power and society...

"Every meaningful change starts with awareness. In our culture, we not only praise psychopaths in the highest positions of power, but in many cases, they became our role models. Challenge your beliefs! We have delved into the world of psychopaths and heroes and revealed something crucial about us." - I Am Fishead, documentary film

About I Am Fishead:
It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our society faces today? Guided by the saying "A fish rots from the head." we set out to follow that fishy odor. What we found out is that people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.

Who, or what, is a psychopath? Unlike Hollywood's stereotypical image, they are not always blood-thirsty monsters from slasher movies. Actually, that nice lady who chatted you up on the subway this morning could be one. So could your elementary school teacher, your grinning boss, or even your loving boyfriend. The medical definition is simple: A psychopath is a person who lacks empathy and conscience, the quality which guides us when we choose between good and evil, moral or not. Most of us are conditioned to do good things. Psychopaths are not. Their impact on society is staggering, yet altogether psychopaths barely make up one percent of the population. Read more...

This is an edited version the 9-20-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full, unedited video show, click here.

Bumper Music:
"Walking On Sunshine" Aly & AJ.
"Halo/Walking On Sunshine" Glee Cast

Look Closer:
Hare Psychopathy Checklist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist

Psychopathic boldness tied to U.S. presidential success
http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2012/09/psychopathic-boldness-tied-to-us.html

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

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Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Activists Derrick J. Freeman and Michele Seven join us to discuss civil disobedience and the new documentary film, Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree. We use their stories to examine a quasi-logical fallacy called argumentum ad bacculum (appeal to force). This fallacy is the #1 tool of people calling themselves government.

"Of all the fallacies, the Ad Baculum fallacy may be the most difficult to reconcile with some form of legitimate reasoning. The Ad Baculum fallacy does not so much imitate good reasoning as announce that every effort at reasoning has come to an end. Now violence will be used instead. Persuasion is not the point, only compliance."
-Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, L'Art de Penser (The Art of Thinking), 1662

This is an edited version the 9-13-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full, unedited video show, click here.

Co-Hosts: Osborne

Bumper Music:
"Home" Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
"How Come" Ray Lamontagne

Look Closer:
Appeal to Force (Ad Baculum)
http://courses.csusm.edu/fallacies/force.htm

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

School Sucks Podcast #017: The State's Facade of Honor and Benevolence
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2009-11-22T04_30_34-08_00

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

It's good day for it.

Topics: This morning I discovered a new website: www.criticalthinking.org, the homepage of The Critical Thinking Community.

There's been a lot of talk on the show lately about the connection between critical thinking and emotional intelligence. And after searching through the site, I discovered the work of an educational psychologist named Linda Elder. I was very intrigued by her paper, Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory, so I thought I would turn it into a nice mp3 for you.

Woven throughout the theory is a call to understand the roll emotional intelligence plays in effective and rational thinking, so I have also included some audio from an Objectivist writer and lecturer on philosophy named Dr.Diana Hsieh. Dr. Hsieh (Promounced "Shay") also hosts a Q&A webcast called Philosophy In Action.

Look Closer:

Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence,by Linda Elder
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/cognition-and-affect-critical-thinking-and-emotional-intelligence/485

Philosophy: Who Needs It
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_philosophy_who_needs_it

Topics: The authority of the constitution is one of my least favorite subjects, but we decided to give a listener almost 50 minutes to make his case.

This show is 2 selected clips from the 9-6-12 live show and the After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:

Attacking the Sacred, By Larken Rose
http://boldvoices.tv/content/attacking-sacred-larken-rose

No Treason
The Constitution of No Authority, by Lysander Spooner
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/spooner1.html

Topics: An expansion of of the conversation in show #160: Logic Saves Lives Part 3 - The Most Dangerous Superstition (With Larken Rose).

Larken joined us to discuss his book, The Most Dangerous Superstition, and the logical fallacy called argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority). This fallacy often lays the groundwork for many additional logical and rhetorical missteps in debate.

This is an edited version of the After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
The Appeal To Authority (Defined)
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

The Appeal To Force (Defined)
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adbacula.html

Genetic Fallacy (defined)
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/genefall.html

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

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Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: Larken Rose joins us to discuss his book, The Most Dangerous Superstition, and the logical fallacy called argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority). This fallacy often lays the groundwork for many additional logical and rhetorical missteps in debate.

This is an edited version the 9-6-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Co-Hosts: Cory

Bumper Music:
"Sing Me Back Home" Merle Haggard

Look Closer:
The Appeal To Authority (Defined)
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

Genetic Fallacy (defined)
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/genefall.html

Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

POLITICAL DEBATE CONTRACT
http://edu-lu-tion.com/resources/political_debate_contract

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

Metaphysical Laws
1.Identity
2.Causality
3.Non-Contradiction

Topic: A discussion about my new idea for advancing the message of liberty, articulating a sound methodology, and removing the irrationality and pacifying the emotional mayhem of the average political argument. 'Tis the season...

TOPIC/QUESTION: _________________________________________________
All Parties Agree to Avoid Red Herrings

Clause #1: Clarification of Purpose
Before proceeding, all parties must communicate the goals they are trying achieve through this argument/conversation. More importantly, all parties must identify the intellectual or emotional needs they are trying to have met through such an interaction.

Clause #2: Ethical and Logical Consistency
Because almost all political arguments grow from the need of all parties determine right from wrong, or moral from immoral, each party must articulate a clear foundation of principles or axioms upon which all of their political positions are built.

EXAMPLE:
“I am a Republican/Democrat/Libertarian, and that political belief system is built upon the impenetrable idea that (insert principles here) .

Please avoid abstract language and subjective claims like: “America is the greatest country in the world!” OR “Freedom is the answer.” OR “Obama says...” All your subsequent arguments and statements must not contradict the principles you put forward at this step. All elements of your current political belief system must be consistent with these principles.

Clause #3: Avoiding the Box
While the discussion must stay on the agreed upon topic, all parties must agree to abstain from the tactic of putting their opponent(s) "in a box." This refers to attempts to control the context of the discussion in a way that is advantageous to you.

EXAMPLES:
1. Lifeboat Scenarios
2. Straw-Man Fallacy
3. Loaded Questions (Trap-Setting)
4. Special Pleading Fallacy (The Retreat)

Clause #4: Foundation of Facts
All parties must be able to demonstrate that their opinion/claim/call-to-action is built upon a foundation of facts with which their opponent agrees. This is often the most challenging part of any debate because each party will have different strengths and deficits in his or her knowledge-base. Both parties will agree to fact-checking in real time (internet) if necessary.

Clause #5: Ideological Flexibility
You agree that if your opponent can clearly demonstrate that your argument contains numerous inconsistencies, contradictions or other general errors in reasoning, you will follow up by doing all of the following:

1. avoid launching into an emotion-driven invective against your opponent, including ad hominem attacks (aka FIGHT)
2. avoid the “taking my ball and going home” tactic, where you say something like, “I've had it with this! There's no talking to you! And everyone is entitled to their own opinion anyway. Goodbye.” (aka FLIGHT)
3. admit that your position needs additional research and consideration
4. agree to consume two (2) pieces of educational media chosen for you by your opponent (articles, book excerpts, videos, podcasts, etc...)

SOME EXAMPLES of common reasoning errors to avoid: Appeal to Emotion/Fear, Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Popularity, Circular Reasoning, Ambiguity, Equivocation, the Genetic Fallacy, Fallacy of Composition/Division, Fallacy of the Excluded Middle, and Appeal to Tradition

Signatures:

PARTY 1 ______________________________
PARTY 2 ______________________________
WITNESS ______________________________

This is an edited version the 8-30-12 live show and the After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Co-Hosts: Cory and Osborne. J.J. from Starfall Media joins us during the after-show.

Bumper Music:
"Listen" Chicago

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

POLITICAL DEBATE CONTRACT
http://edu-lu-tion.com/resources/political_debate_contract

The John Taylor Gatto Recovery Project (2012)
https://theultimatehistorylesson.com/donate/

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

Stefan Molyneux: A Handout For Statists
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/molyneux/molyneux4.html

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Topics: Economist Robert P. Murphy joins Osborne and me to discuss the philosophy and misconceptions of Austrian economics, the future of scholarly pursuits and credibility, and his advice for young people.

This is an edited version the 8-16-12 show After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:

Robert Murphy Bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Murphy

My Advice to Young People
http://mises.org/daily/5637/My-Advice-to-Young-People

My Debate Challenge to Paul Krugman
http://mises.org/daily/4807

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Picture:

Topics:
John, a former public school teacher, calls in to discuss his feelings about the distortions in memories of future public school graduates...and teachers.

This is an edited version of 8-9-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:

Informal University
http://informalu.org/

The Underground History
of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

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Topics:
Cory and I discuss the difference between schooling and education. I read an email from a listener who plans to do home education, but like so many other parents he is uncertain about what to do.

This is an excerpt from the 8-2-12 show After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Bumper Music:
"Fire On the Mountain" Grateful Dead (5-8-77 at Cornell University)

Look Closer:

Trivium Education
http://www.triviumeducation.com/

Tragedy and Hope
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend With John Taylor Gatto
https://theultimatehistorylesson.com/

The Underground History
of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

Tips on Nurturing Your Child’s Curiosity
http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/social-emotional-development/tips-on-nurturing-your-childs-curiosity.html

How I Would Unschool My Kids
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/07/how-i-would-unschool-my-kids/

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Topic: A follow-up to our recent shows about behaviorism and educational politics, this episode examines the origins of, and ideologies and motives behind the controversial (yet bi-partisan!) No Child Left Behind legislation of 2002, or 1989, or 1967, or 1933, or 1903, depending on where you start the story.

Bumper Music:
"Waiting For Superman" The Flaming Lips

Look Closer:

The No Child Left Behind Act: A Look at Provisions, Philosophies, and Compromises
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v41n2/kymes.html

Origins and Purpose of "No Child Left Behind"
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/Emery/Emery_NCLB.htm

A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

The Political Economy of Collective Skill FormationPDF

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE TYRANNY
http://www.newswithviews.com/Chapman/michael.htm

RICH DAD: The Conspiracy Against Our Education, Why Money is not Taught in Our Schools
http://www.conspiracyoftherich.com/

EdWatch
http://www.edwatch.org/

The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto (Chapter 12 - The Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede, Section 15 - The General Education Board And Friends)
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/12o.htm

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Picture: Trustees of the General Education Board, the first Rockefeller foundation, at a retreat in Rockland, Maine, in July 1915. Front row, from left: Edwin A. Alderman, Frederick T. Gates, Charles W. Eliot (former president of Harvard University), Harry Pratt Judson (president of University of Chicago), Wallace Buttrick (executive officer of the Board). Second row, from left: Wickliffe Rose (head of the Rockefeller public health programs), Hollis B. Frissell, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., E. C. Sage, Albert Shaw, Abraham Flexner. Third row, from left: George E. Vincent (president of the Rockefeller Foundation), Anson Phelps Stokes, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene

Topics:
Kate Baker, the Executive Director of The Network For Educational Opportunity, joins me to discuss her battles in educational politics, school choice, the history of compulsory schooling, and parenting.

This is an edited version of 7-26-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:

N.H. will request waiver from NCLB
http://m.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120722%2FNEWS%2F207220339%2F-1%2FNEWSMAP&template=wapart

Network for Education Opportunity
http://networkforeducation.org/

A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

The Underground History
of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

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Picture:
Doc Christensen's "Portrait of the Prophets"(Depicts all LDS church presidents from Joseph Smith to Thomas S. Monson)

Complete Liberty Episode 168
Wes Bertrand's Show Notes:

Guests Brett from http://schoolsucksproject.com/live and http://youtube.com/schoolsuckspodcast and Jeremy from http://ultimatefreedomquest.com and http://internetbusinessmastery.com

http://www.break.com/index/door_to_door_atheists_bother_mormons.html

http://www.alternet.org/story/155158/why_does_religion_always_get_a_free_rid

Nate Phelps took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything Q&A
http://boingboing.net/2012/06/24/qa-with-a-former-member-of-th.html

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anti-conceptual_mentality.html

"public school" is the church of the state

one key challenge is to maintain your curiosity in a culture that stifles it (via such things as rewards and punishments)

http://www.logicallearning.net/libertyeducation.html

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/want-a-disproven-belief-government-schools-teach-good-science/

The Hopelessness of Atheism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLxNc_Mtw-4

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html

The Internet Where religions come to die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rqw4krMOug

http://www.ldsliberty.org/podcasts/

bumper music "Touched By The Hand Of God" by New Order
http://www.neworderonline.com/

to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697

Co-Hosts: Alyson, Cory, Mandrik

Topics:
A seemingly comical entry-point into dark territory:
Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools" which quotes the party platform: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

So what is Outcome-Based Education?

John Taylor Gatto:
A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING
The BEHAVIORAL TEACHER EDUCATIONAL PROJECT outlines specific teaching reforms to be forced on the country, unwillingly of course, after 1967.

"According to the BEHAVIORAL TEACHER EDUCATIONAL PROJECT, post modern schooling would focus, (I quote directly from the document), "on pleasure cultivation and interpersonal relationships and other attitudes and skills compatible with a non-work world". It makes sense of course, doesn't it? That irresponsible semi-illiterate people could not be trusted with much responsibility so in the new change agentry schooling, which is called for by this national teacher training document, the teacher is a therapist, translating the prescriptions of the social psychologists into practical action research in the classroom."

Context:
Changes in the 1960s: motivations and results
Civil rights and opposition to Vietnam
Government responds:
-Poverty and inner-city desperation pacified with welfare
-War on Drugs against mind expansion
-centralization and standardization of education

Had the true controlling potential of school had been dormant up to this point?

This is an edited version of 7-19-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:

Educational Theories - Behaviorism Vs. Constructivism
http://crescentok.com/staff/jaskew/isr/education/theories.htm

Applying behaviorism to our schools
http://joctl.blogspot.com/2009/03/applying-behaviorism-to-our-schools.html

Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities: Constructivism Or Behaviorism?
http://cie.asu.edu/volume8/number10/index.html

Outcome-Based Education Explained, by Ron Sunseri
http://www.sntp.net/education/obe_explained.htm

A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

The Underground History
of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling

http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

Co-Hosts: Cory, Osborne (Ustream-Only Show)

“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.” – B. F. Skinner

Topics:
Cory leads the discussion, recounting his frustrating experiences with the MMO, World of Warcraft, and how today's game creators employ the the techniques of behaviorist B.F. Skinner to control the behavior of players.

Our guide for this discussion is an article from Cracked.com:
5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted, by David Wong.

This is an edited version of 7-12-12 Ustream-only show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

The Skinner Box:

Look Closer:
Why B. F. Skinner, Like Freud, Still Isn’t Dead, By John Horgan
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/06/01/why-b-f-skinner-like-freud-still-isnt-dead/

Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/operant-conditioning.html

Why did I do that? A Primer on B.F. Skinner
http://psychologydegreeguide.org/bf-skinner/

Educational Approach in Constructivism and Behaviorism
http://www.articlesbase.com/college-and-university-articles/educational-approach-in-constructivism-and-behaviorism-441073.html

Co-Hosts: Mandrik, Wes Bertrand (last two segments)

Topics:
We cautiously approach the Peter Thiel rabbit hole. Our discussion begins with a story about Thiel's warnings of a higher education bubble, and his Thiel Fellowship, which offers start-up money to innovative college students if they drop out and get to work.

-Mandrik talks about agorism and entrepreneurship.
-Wes Bertrand calls in to share a story about Thiel:
The Nation: Ron Paul Wants to Abolish the CIA; His Largest Donor Builds Toys for It

This is an edited version of 7-5-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
The Nation: Ron Paul Wants to Abolish the CIA; His Largest Donor Builds Toys for It
http://www.thenation.com/article/166421/ron-paul-wants-abolish-cia-his-largest-donor-builds-toys-it#

Bilderberg 2012: Meet The Next Generation Technocrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Nz98lyB6Y

The Thiel Fellowship
http://www.thielfellowship.org/

The Founders Fund
http://www.foundersfund.com/

Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/

Famous College Drop-Outs
http://collegedropoutshalloffame.com/

Complete Liberty Website
http://completeliberty.com/

The final installment of the Porcfest Micro-Series.

On Monday, June 25th, 2012, I co-hosted Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence radio show. This is Hour One of the show.

Discussed:
-My career

Bumper Music:
"Outback" Baka Deyond

A great resource:
Freedom's Phoenix
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm

A panel discussion about the basics of podcasting.
Saturday 6-21-12

Organizer:
Garrett Fox
Disindoctrination Podcast

Panelists:
Stephanie Murphy
Porc Therapy
Antonio SJ Musumeci (Bile)
Thinking Liberty
Brett Veinotte
School Sucks

Warning: Extremely Explicit Content

9pm: "Alex Jones" Exposes Wheels Off Liberty As Shills of the New World Order
-with Brian Hagen, Tarrin Lupo, George Mandrik, and Brett Veinotte

With Tarrin Lupo

With Brian Hagen, who played Alex Jones

10pm: The Roast of Christopher Lawless (Highlights)
-"Alex Jones" introduces Bob Murphy
-Bob Murphy explains what a roast is
-Dan D'Amico > Stefan Molyneux > Brett Veinotte

On Friday, June 20th, 2012, I sat in as a guest on Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence radio show. I had the pleasure of being on the show with Stephanie Murphy (Porc Therapy, Fr33 Aid) and economist Daniel D'Amico.

Discussed:
-The Mission of School Sucks Project
-Intellectual Self-Defense
-The Ultimate History Lesson
-Market Alternatives to State-Run "Services"

A great resource:
Freedom's Phoenix
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm

These are selected segments from Hour 2 and The After School (Sucks) Special on 6-19-12. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

1. Pam the Public School Teacher
-NCLB
-The Federal Takeover of Local Education, DoE
-Education Vs. Schooling
-Intro to the Prussian Model
-A Good Education, Compared to What?
-Unions

2. Jake Desyllas, The Voluntary Life
-Tips For Emerging Entrepreneurs
-Fighting the Training In Dependence
-The "Free" Market Vs. the Public Sector

3. Cody Hall, Tragedy and Hope Communications
-What Is T&H?
-The Word "Conspiracy"
-Historical Context
-Corporate Media
-The Trivium
-The Ultimate History Lesson

Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto:
Enter the coupon code: "SCHOOLSUCKS"

Stefan Molyneux joins Osborne, me, and a large studio audience for the first hour of the 6-19-12 School Sucks Radio Show. I apologize for the less-than-optimal audio quality.

Topics:
-Weather-related nudity
-The Freedomain Radio documentary film
-The mainstream media
-Exercises for avoiding confirmation bias
-Striking the root

Freedomain Radio
http://www.freedomainradio.com/

Brett on Flaming Freedom (6-19-12) and Free Talk Live (6-21-12)

On Flaming Freedom, we discuss whether or not the liberty movement should be more social conservative-friendly.

On Free Talk Live, Brad Jardis expresses his objections to the name "School Sucks."

Flaming Freedom
http://flamingfreedom.com/

Free Talk Live
http://www.freetalklive.com/

Topics:
At Porcfest, I talk for about 20 minutes on surviving government schooling experience, addressing the frequent question from parents: what should I do if I have to send my kid to public school?

Jake Desyllas from The Voluntary Life Podcast then joins me to discuss overcoming our schooling, entrepreneurship and financial freedom.

Look CLoser:
The Voluntary Life
http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/

Co-Hosts: Mandrik and Osborne

This is an edited version of the 6-28-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Sick and/or exhausted, the three of us fight our way through a raving review of the 2012 Porcupine Freedom Festival.

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Cory

Topics:
We discuss the value of Khan Academy, and how it would fit into the larger picture of free, self-directed education in the future.

This is the full 6-14-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look CLoser:
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/could-you-modify-it-to-stop-students-from-becoming-this-advanced/

Picture: Hopefully this guy was a theatre major.

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Cory

Topics:
-Understanding college debt
-Osborne runs a debt collection company
-Our college experiences
-Who will end up holding the bag for defaults?
-College indoctrination and sycophantic students

This is the full 6-7-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look CLoser:
Student Loan Debt Hell: 21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/student-loan-debt-hell.html

The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped
http://lewrockwell.com/french/french140.html

The Subsidized Student Loan Scam
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/10/the-subsidized-student-loan-scam/

Picture: A judge and his ethics.

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

Topics:
-Voluntarism
-Politics Versus Patience
-Logic Versus Schooling
-Meditation
-Poverty
-Dropping Out
-Honor Student Jailed For Doing Real Work
-A 25-minute monologue on the Diane Tran incident (not live)

This is hour two of the 5-31-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look CLoser:
Diane Tran's Judge Offers a Defense, Sorta
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/06/diane_trans_judge_offers_a_def.php

Diane Tran Scandal & The Matter Of Dishonorable Judge Lanny Moriarty Before The Texas Ethics Commission
http://durangotexas.blogspot.com/2012/05/matter-of-dishonorable-judge-lanny.html

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

The first hour of the show is predominantly a discussion initiated by a caller named John. He is a tutor seeking some advice on how to introduce some constructive criticism of the government school system to a struggling student and his father.

Mandrik also discusses how "alternatives" to the mainstream schooling path have a certain stigma attached to them.

This is hour one of the 5-31-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look CLoser:
Army Recruiter threatens student with Jail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RgQYDQIT3o

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

The theme for this show is recognizing and accessing the whole world that awaits beyond the obedience, conformity and illogic of government school and the college scam. It begins with a North Carolina student who took a video of his teacher telling him he could be arrested for talking badly about Obama. It's a hit on You Tube.

This is an edited down version of the 5-24-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Friday, May 25th, 2012:
Richard Grove, Tony Myers, and I guest-hosted on the Corbett Report, a live call-in show on the RBN Network.

We spent the hour looking at the life and work of the influential (and frequently misunderstood) German Idealist, Georg Hegel.

Bumper Music:
"Manges" Darmstadt

Look Closer:
Show Notes Courtesy of TragedyandHope.com
https://www.tragedyandhope.com/friday-night-live-week-2-th-hosts-corbett-report-radio-tonights-topic-hegel/

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

History...So It Doesn't Repeat
https://www.tragedyandhope.com/producing-history/

Peace Revolution Podcast
http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto:
Enter the coupon code: "SCHOOLSUCKS"

"Logic is man’s method of reaching conclusions objectively by deriving them without contradiction from the facts of reality—ultimately, from the evidence provided by man’s senses. If men reject logic, then the tie between their mental processes and reality is severed; all cognitive standards are repudiated, and anything goes; any contradiction, on any subject, may be endorsed (and simultaneously rejected) by anyone, as and when he feels like it."
-Any Rand “Nazism and Subjectivism,” The Objectivist, Feb. 1971

Topic:
Wes Bertrand joins me to discuss the foundational concepts in the science of logic. We use the work of Leonard Peikoff (Objectivism: The Philosphy of Ayn Rand and An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology) as our guide.

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are.

-Why truth is more important than comfort
-Subjectivism
-Percepts to Concepts
-The Stolen Concept
-The Problem With Objectivism
-Attitudes and Values
-Approach, Communicating Effectively

Objectivism (5 Branches of Philosophy)
1. Metaphysics
2. Epistemology-Logic
3. Ethics
4. Politics
5. Aesthetics

Metaphysical Laws
1. Identity
2. Causality
3. Non-Contradiction

Bumper Music:
"If I Ruled the World (Instrumental)" NAS

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Ayn Rand Lexicon
http://aynrandlexicon.com/

Objectivism: The Philosphy of Ayn Rand
http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Books/OPAR.htm

An Introduction to Objectivism Part1 - Lecture by Leonard Peikoff
http://youtu.be/cW-xUEYaBnU

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

Rand's Razor
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rands_razor.html

Achieving “mind like water” through Getting Things Done
http://www.alanfurth.com/achieving-mind-like-water-through-getting-things-done/

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

A teacher from New York calls in to explain the rationale behind his school's recent iPhone ban. We also discuss surviving government school with a high school junior from Canada.

This is hour one of the 5-17-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

Katie was pursuing a public school teaching career. Then she discovered the Philosophy of Liberty. I had a similar experience.

This is hour one of the 5-17-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Topic: In October of 2011, Stephanie Murphy, George Mandrik and I discussed our experiences with the 2008 Ron Paul Presidential Campaign.

I was recently contacted by Shaun Bowen, a Ron Paul 2012 campaign worker, who heard the episode and wanted to offer an alternative point of view.

Bumper Music:
"In Motion" Trent Reznor

Look Closer;

106: A Young Person's Guide To Politics (Appendix A) - Ron Paul, The Final Fantasy
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2011-10-19T06_33_27-07_00

"Democracy--the god that failed: the economics and politics of monarchy" By Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://books.google.com

Freedomain Radio-True News 5: The Truth About Voting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM

Democracy Is Not Freedom by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul233.html

FDR1980 Walter Block vs Stefan Molyneux vs Ron Paul!
http://www.freedomainradio.com/DesktopModules/UltraNewsArticle/Read.aspx?Portalid=1&ArticleId=2470

Could the Bay State’s Ron Paul-loving delegates ruin Romney’s coronation?
http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/137998-could-the-bay-states-ron-paul-loving-delegates-ru/

UStream-only bonus show after the 5/10/12 live show.
Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

-Mickey's communication/connecting efforts
-Non-Violent Communication
-Zingers!
-Baby Boomers
-Experiences with medication
-School Walk-Outs
-Wikipedia and Information Literacy

Our first crack at producing a live radio and streaming video show.
Co-Hosts: Osborne, Mandrik

This is all but three segments of the 5-10-12 show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST.

Look Closer:
Motivation Problem or Hidden Disability?
http://www.uniquelygifted.org/motivation.htm

Help School Sucks:
Become A Monthly Subscriber
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/

Announcing the debut of the School Sucks Live Show on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream. Thursdays at 10pm EST

Plus some segments from my recent appearance on Free talk Live (5/6/12) and parts of an interview on Live Free FM.

Bumper Music:
"Space Wrangler" Widespread Panic
"Stop-Go" Widespread Panic

Look Closer:
Liberty Conspiracy
http://libertyconspiracy.com/

Flaming Freedom - Bringing the flame to freedom
http://flamingfreedom.com/

Live Free FM
http://livefree.fm/

Free Talk Live
http://www.freetalklive.com/

Help School Sucks:
Become A Monthly Subscriber
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/

Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto:

Cevin Soling, the director of the documentary The War On Kids joins me to discuss the film, his research and the pathologizing of normal youth behavior.

Fortunately the 2009 film is now back in the news.

Bumper Music:
"Living In A Box" by Living In A Box

Look Closer:
thewaronkids.com
http://www.thewaronkids.com/

Colbert Report
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/256926/november-30-2009/cevin-soling

The War On Kids (Trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlnwm11d6II

Jason Osborne, Dale Everett and I discuss films and film making, We also look at some statistics about the effectiveness of the public schools.

Later in the show, we take a call from a listener who studies music, and we discuss the power of song for indoctrination and education.

This is hour one Gardner Goldsmith's Liberty Conspiracy live show, from April 1st, 2012. The show airs Sunday through Thursday at 10pm EST on the Liberty Radio Network.

Look Closer:
Liberty Conspiracy
http://libertyconspiracy.com/

Flaming Freedom - Bringing the flame to freedom
http://flamingfreedom.com/

PorcFest 2012
http://porcfest.com/

Help School Sucks:
Become A Monthly Subscriber
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/

Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto:

Picture: The Nazis were certainly not atheists

Part 3 of 3 in an expansion of the School Sucks: The American Way You Tube Video.

Topic:
The American way...
What is this way? Where does it come from? And where does it lead?

In this show: The Chronology
A meandering monologue covering 1000 years of German history.

-The Holy Roman Empire and Biblical Prophecy
-Otto Von Bismark
-The Franco-Prussian War
-German Unification
-The Welfare State
-Imperialism
-Woodrow Wilson and Edward House
-WWI and the Treaty of Versailles
-The Great Depression
-The Rise of Nazism
-Policies of the Third Reich
-The Real Hitler

Look Closer:
INTRODUCING OBJECTIVISM
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro

Objectivism, Hitler, and Kant, by David Gordon
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon13.html

A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

Hitler's War Against the Jews: A Young Reader's Version of The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
http://books.google.com/books?id=nKl2Vv8HoDwC

John Gatto Prussian Education
http://youtu.be/o_CeWip5BpU

Bismarck’s “Blood and Iron” Speech
http://www.edb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Content_6332/making_of_modern_world_source10_eng.pdf

Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler By David F. Crew
http://books.google.com/books?id=2F9TPrhc46sC&pg=PA137&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Nazi Germany Timeline
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERchron.htm

Part 2 of 3 in an expansion of the School Sucks: The American Way You Tube Video.

Topic:
The American way...
What is this way? Where does it come from? And where does it lead?

In this show: Power, Obedience and Collectivism

-The Milgram Experiment
-Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment
-Immanuel Kant
-The Threat of Losing Control
-Carl Von Clausewitz and Total War
-Marxism
-Fabian Socialism and Gradualism

Look Closer:
INTRODUCING OBJECTIVISM
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro

Kant made simple
http://soler7.com/IFAQ/Kant.htmll

What is the Hegelian Dialectic?
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm

Objectivism, Hitler, and Kant, by David Gordon
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon13.html

How The Nazis Usurped the History of The Teutonic Order
http://expertscolumn.com/content/how-nazis-usurped-history-teutonic-order

The Stanford Prison Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwfNs1pqG0

Stanley Millgram: Obedience to Authority
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9l_puxcrlM

Philip Zimbardo: Why ordinary people do evil ... or do good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFEV35tWsg

Hitler's War Against the Jews: A Young Reader's Version of The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
http://books.google.com/books?id=nKl2Vv8HoDwC

John Gatto Prussian Education
http://youtu.be/o_CeWip5BpU

The Lucifer Effect, by Phillip Zimbardo
http://www.lucifereffect.com/

Picture: It takes more than a couple of matches...

Part 1 of 3 in an expansion of the School Sucks: The American Way You Tube Video.

Topic:
The American way...
What is this way? Where does it come from? And where does it lead?

In this show: Philosophy
In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be...
But who's vision is it?
And what were their ideals?

-Objectivism vs. German Idealism
-Immanuel Kant
-George Hegel
-Johann Fichte
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Look Closer:
INTRODUCING OBJECTIVISM
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro

Kant made simple
http://soler7.com/IFAQ/Kant.htmll

Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/analytic-synthetic_dichotomy.htmll

Objectivism, Hitler, and Kant, by David Gordon
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon13.html

Fichte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichte

A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

Identity And Causality, And The Use Of Logic
http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html

Quantum Shift TV: The underground history of North American education
http://www.quantumshift.tv/v/1198046178/

Hitler's War Against the Jews: A Young Reader's Version of The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
http://books.google.com/books?id=nKl2Vv8HoDwC

John Gatto Prussian Education
http://youtu.be/o_CeWip5BpU

Recommended for Wheels Off Liberty fans only. Maybe Alex Jones fans too. Not a real show.

Look Closer:
The Fajita Fun Time Podcast
http://kidbri.podomatic.com/

Wheels Off Liberty
http://wheelsoffliberty.podomatic.com/

DavidIcke.com
http://www.davidicke.com/

Topic:
Shane James, one of the founding members of El Cambio (which is allied with the Occupy Movement), joins me to discuss a recent walkout at his high school, and the response from police and administrators.

We also discuss the goals of his activism, the meaning/purpose of education, and the Occupy Movement. And I try to sprinkle a few seeds.

Bumper Music:
"Necessary Trouble" Hard-Fi

Look Closer:
Attack Dogs used on a High School Walkout in MD
http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/attack-dogs-used-high-school-walkout-md

School Officials, Students Spar in Northwestern Protest Debate
http://riverdalepark.patch.com/articles/school-officials-students-spar-in-northwestern-protest-debate#photo-9319654

"In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind."
-Edward Bernays

Topic:
Richard Grove and Tony Myers from TragedyandHope.com join me for a general introduction to the series on logical fallacies. Our discussion covers how fallacies fit into the larger picture of critical thinking principles and the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric).

We also talk about the recent Republican debates, identifying techniques used by certain candidates.

And the primary benefits of learning logic:

1. SELF DEFENSE:
If you are a young person, targets are all over you; many different interests are trying to influence your values and actions.

2. PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
Effective communication, logical organization of thoughts and freedom from contradictions.

Bumper Music:
"Mohammad's Radio" Wareen Zevon

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Mission: Mind Control (ABC NEWS SPECIAL, 1979
http://youtu.be/8r4_BXLvvRc

The Century of Self 1 - Happiness Machines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7HClTMzW9g

I'M OK YOU'RE NOT OK
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2010/03/im-ok-youre-not-ok/

http://TragedyandHope.com
http://www.tragedyandhope.com/

Is Kony 2012 a propaganda campaign?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO9HL99itSU

History...So It Doesn't Repeat
https://www.tragedyandhope.com/producing-history/

James Corbett - Skeptical on Syria: 'Media reports framed & manipulated'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQ7gYyGIH4

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Richard Grove's Show-Notes:
Logic Saves Lives / School Sucks episode 130

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Today's installment is another preview of the upcoming series on logical fallacies.

Topic:
The KONY 2012 rabbit hole is deep and dark. In today's show, we'll poke our heads in and take a quick look around.

KONY 2012 is viral You Tube film produced by the controversial Invisible Children organization. It explicitly calls for a US military intervention in Uganda to arrest warlord Joseph Kony, claiming this "grassroots" campaign and subsequent government action will serve as a model to end injustice and crimes against humanity in the world.

Bumper Music:
"Suburban High School" Nice Peter

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Joseph Kony 2012: growing outrage in Uganda over film
https://www.sott.net/articles/show/242761-Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film

Invisible Children, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Children,_Inc.

Dad-son talk, celebrity tweets key to viral video
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggyenmJc1TISpG6Yr77qpfEBt03A?docId=24a862e019ad4798b73ac3c352cc104d

Joseph Kony, LRA leader, uganda - worlds first ever interview
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3358543972674478503

African Critics of Kony Campaign See a ‘White Man’s Burden’ for the Facebook Generation
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/african-critics-of-kony-campaign-hear-echoes-of-the-white-mans-burden/

Is Kony 2012 a propaganda campaign?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO9HL99itSU

Your World News Interview with Keith Harmon Snow The Politics of Genocide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlPY2fWBUeU

KONY 2012 Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

THE LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY by Keith Harmon Snow
http://www.whale.to/c/lord.html

Trivium
http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

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Picture: Who's this "we"?

This is hour two Gardner Goldsmith's Liberty Conspiracy live show, from March 1st, 2012. The show airs Sunday through Thursday at 10pm EST on the Liberty Radio Network.Gardner and I discuss a variety of school-related topics, after my half-hour introduction about John Dewey, donations/subscription encouragement - through an appeal to emotion (sorry) - and the upcoming SSP website.

NOTE: Sorry about the background noise; I'm still working out some kinks with the new set-up.

Discussed:
-An email from a high school student
-The Milgrim Experiment
-Collectivism
-Sam Blumenfeld's research
-John Dewey
-Primary Sources
-Erica Goldson
-Suggestions for students and parents

Bumper Music:
"If I Ruled the World" Jamie Cullum

Look Closer:
Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority (1974)
http://www.panarchy.org/milgram/obedience.html

WHO KILLED EXCELLENCE? by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
http://richmondacademy.org/WhoKilledExcellence.aspx

REVEALING "QUOTES" ON THE GOALS OF PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
http://www.psychquotes.com/

The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early Essays By John Dewey
http://books.google.com/

The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy By John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander
http://books.google.com/

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Today Richard Grove from TragedyandHope.com joins me to discuss his recent film, The Ultimate History Lesson - A Weekend With John Taylor Gatto.

From theultimatehistorylesson.com:

The Ultimate History Lesson is a 5-hour course, illustrating the cause and effect relationship of how Americans became incoherent, and thus how the American dream has was usurped by an international agenda.

With more than 200 footnotes and more than 30 book references contained in its entirety, this unique interview provides you with the primary sources, quotes, links, and suggested resources to expedite your own open-source education.

Bumper Music:
"Gangsters" The Specials

Look Closer:
The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

"How to Train Fleas?" / John Taylor Gatto, a sample from The Ultimate History Lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhSAv-NrDo

A Fabian Socialist Dream Come True
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4425-a-fabian-socialist-dream-come-true.html

Peace Revolution Podcast
http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/

Peace Revolution episode 037: Justified Sinners / The History of Eugenics in America
http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/entry/2011-08-14T18_46_27-07_00

SOURCED TRANSCRIPT: THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON / A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
http://www.scribd.com/doc/76968236/SOURCED-TRANSCRIPT-The-Ultimate-History-Lesson-A-Weekend-with-John-Taylor-Gatto

Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

Today's installment is a preview of the upcoming series on logical fallacies. This series will probably begin some time in March.

Topic:
I examine a clip of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney slithering his way through a statement defending his support of the National Defense Authorization Act. Before being asked if he would have signed the bill as written, the moderator explains how the NDAA includes the new executive power to indefinitely detain American citizens.

Romney don't care.

His response is less than two minutes and contains over 20 logical fallacies.

Bumper Music:
"Rebirth of Slick" Digable Planets

Look Closer:
Logical Fallacies Basics
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm

Romney admits he would have signed the National Defense Authorization Act if he were president
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZoPnYjx0g

Mitt Romney: Champion of Big Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/howell5.html

Romney as Job Creator Clashes with Bain Record of Job Cuts
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-20/romney-as-job-creator-clashes-with-bain-record-of-job-cuts.html

SEEKING TAXES, ROMNEY WENT AFTER BUSINESS
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_19021876

Romney faces criticism over Bain 'bailout' ad
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/07/14/romney_faces_criticism_over_bain_bailout_ad/

The Authentic Cruelty of a Synthetic Man
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w213.html

Picture: There's nothing sexy about hurting peaceful people who commit victimless "crimes."

School Sucks Podcast does not support or encourage teenage drug use. However, SSP also does not support or encourage predatory police practices targeting and entrapping high school students.

Topic:
After listening to a piece called "21 Chump Street" on NPR's This American Life, I was compelled to devote some time to the threat of NARCS and informants infiltrating public schools, with the consent of administrators, of course.

Jason Osborne and Dale Everett join me once again, and as Free Staters, we are not strangers to this concern. Jason also produced a video called Never Get Raided, which explains how to identify undercover agents.

Bumper Music:
"The French Connection Theme" by Don Ellis

Look Closer:
How an Attractive, Undercover Cop Posed as a Student -- Then Entrapped a Smitten Teen to "Sell" Her Marijuana
http://www.alternet.org/story/154164/how_an_attractive_undercover_cop_posed_as_a_student__then_entrapped_a_smitten_teen_to_sell_her_marijuana

Dale's Website - Flaming Freedom
http://flamingfreedom.com/

This American Life Episode 457
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love

ROP Police Training Program (Example)
http://rop.sutter.k12.ca.us/Content/PubServ/LawEnf.aspx

My guest today is Sydney Roc, the host of Gaming and Liberty Podcast. Our discussion goes in several directions, but it includes a lot of previously unexplored material for this show.

Discussed:
-SOPA/PIPA
-Piracy and Intellectual Property
-The Educational Value of Games vs. School
-Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
-Military Propaganda in Video Games
-Zelda

Look Closer:
How the Internet blackout affected congressional support for PIPA/SOPA
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/how-the-internet-blackout-affe.html

ReviewTechUSA: RIAA/MPAA: New Tech, Old Tricks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMIKGiamj4

Gaming and Liberty Episode 16 – Introducing Games for Change
http://www.gamingandliberty.com/2011/12/05/episode-16-introducing-games-for-change/

Picture: Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of the German intellectuals behind institutionalized compulsory schooling. Look into his eyes.

From anarchast.com:
To us, Anarchy means freedom. The desire to live without a violent, coercive State. Anarchy is peace, love and prosperity. Free markets. And, power to the people.

Topic:
Jeff and I discuss my path to voluntarism, Ron Paul, the intellectual insults of presidential campaigning, the purpose of School Sucks Podcast, unschooling, critical thinking and the history of government school.

Look Closer:
About Jeff Berwick
http://anarchast.com/about/

106: A Young Person's Guide To Politics (Appendix A) - Ron Paul, The Final Fantasy
http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2011-10-19T06_33_27-07_00

Freedomain Radio
http://www.freedomainradio.com/

Complete Liberty
http://completeliberty.com/

This is hour one of Gardner Goldsmith's Liberty Conspiracy live show. I am tentatively planning to do this once per week. The show airs Sunday through Thursday at 10pm EST on the Liberty Radio Network.

Topic:
We start out coming a story about Senator Rand Paul being detained by the TSA, and then expand the discussion to include the history of government regulation of air travel, the efficacy and legitimacy of the US Constitution, and the concept of collectivism.

Look Closer:
Liberty Conspiracy Website
http://libertyconspiracy.com/

Gardner On School Sucks Podcast 028 - Let's Make A Hero! (FDR)
http://www.schoolsucksproject.com/podcasts/29

Gardner On School Sucks Podcast 027 - Let's Make A Hero! (Abraham Lincoln)
http://www.schoolsucksproject.com/podcasts/28

Topic:
As a follow-up to the last show, specifically my story about my student's Lego movie, I wanted to look a little closer at the constricting and numbing elements of institutionalized schooling. Also, how I once contributed to these wounds and how I try to correct them.

Look Closer:
How Does School Wound? Kirsten Olson Has Counted Some Ways
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201106/how-does-school-wound-kirsten-olson-has-counted-some-ways

Porc Therapy
http://www.porctherapy.com/

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Topic:
As a follow-up to the last show, specifically my story about my student's Lego movie, I wanted to look a little closer at the constricting and numbing elements of institutionalized schooling. Also, how I once contributed to these wounds and how I try to correct them.

Look Closer:
How Does School Wound? Kirsten Olson Has Counted Some Ways
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201106/how-does-school-wound-kirsten-olson-has-counted-some-ways

Porc Therapy
http://www.porctherapy.com/

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Porc Therapy is a pro-freedom relationship talk show that takes a unique look at the question of how we can attain the most individual liberty possible, starting with our personal lives and relationships with others.

On Porc Therapy, host Stephanie Murphy explores ways to apply voluntaryist or libertarian principles – for example, peace, honesty, respect for natural rights, empathy and compassion, voluntary association, and individual sovereignty – to relationships with friends, loved ones, family, neighbors, coworkers, and more. Stephanie looks at current social norms and traditions through a critical lens, and tries to apply a rational perspective to every subject that is raised on Porc Therapy. The result is a show that is very different from traditional relationship talk shows.

During the show, Stephanie discusses listener questions, articles, news items, and takes phone calls. Porc Therapy is a live radio show and podcast.

Topics:

What is unschooling?; things you can do with legos; kids, school, and feelings; Connie, a radical homeschooling mom, shares her experiences about parenting and liberty; the atrocities of war and people’s reactions to them.

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Imagine a door to complete freedom, abounding opportunity and greater personal satisfaction... Public education is the lock. This is the sixth in a series of non-sequential shows about finding keys.

Dale J. Stephens joins me to discuss the Uncollege movement.

Topics: (from dalejstephens.com)

Hacking Your Education
If you want to be unremarkably average, go to college, turn in your homework, and graduate summa cum laude. You’ll have a college degree to your name, but you won’t be any closer to changing the world. The path to wild success does not involve jumping through hoops. If you want to succeed you cannot be a lemming. We all have something that makes us different in one way or another–and society has trained us to be ashamed of our unconventional quirks. By using your unique qualities to your advantage, you can turn the conformist paradigm on its head and speed along the path to success. Ultimately the only authority you need is your own, and by defining success for yourself you’ll make happiness readily achievable.

Working with the Millennial Generation
22.4% of college graduates under 25 are unemployed. That means that only the best and the brightest are getting jobs—but it’s difficult to interface with these digital natives. Information is cheap and access is instant. We see no separation between work and life—Twitter and Facebook are part of our workflow. These changes are difficult for previous generations—and institutions—to understand. Because Dale bridges the gap between youth and adults, he doesn’t just relate to both but shares their experiences, fears, and challenges. He can help you understand how to successfully work with the leaders of tomorrow.

The UnCollege Movement: Reinventing Higher Education
College provides four things—knowledge, network, community, and signal—yet technology is changing faster than educational institutions. The university is at a crossroads, trying to stay competitive in a constantly changing market while still delivering a quality education at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, the university is failing on both counts: tuition is skyrocketing while student learning is plummeting. What is the future of higher education? This talk will address the coming transformation of education, both inside and outside institutions.

Look Closer:

Dale's Website
http://dalejstephens.com/new/

TEDx (Video) - Dale Stephens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOsCQY6q1Ro

Marginal Revolution: Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/teachers-dont-like-creative-students.html

School Sucks Links:
The Magic of Pronouns: Tips For Aspiring Politicians/Criminals (...and Ron Paul)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2XuNyq9jw

SUBSCRIBE!-School Sucks Podcast You Tube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/schoolsuckspodcast

School Sucks On Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/School-Sucks-Podcast-The-END-of-Public-Education/144639747999

Three listeners - Evan, James, and Sarah - join me to discuss the film, Charlie Bartlett.

Cast:
Tyler Hilton, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Megan Park, Kat Dennings and Robert Downey Jr.

Summary:
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin) is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner (Downey, Jr.). As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability positions him as the resident "psychiatrist" dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens (Hilton), to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.

Bumper Music:
"Unnecessary Trouble" Hard-Fi

Look Closer:
Charlie Bartlett (IMDB)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423977/

Ritalin Rebellion
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7917

'Charlie Bartlett' Tackles Teen Prescription-Drug Abuse, In A Funny Way
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1582262/charlie-bartlett-tackles-prescriptiondrug-abuse.jhtml

School Sucks Links:
The Magic of Pronouns: Tips For Aspiring Politicians/Criminals (...and Ron Paul)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2XuNyq9jw

SUBSCRIBE!-School Sucks Podcast You Tube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/schoolsuckspodcast

With a focus on the bizarre dialect of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, I discuss the fourth form of doublespeak: Gobbledygook and Bureaucratese.

Defining attributes of doublespeak:
-misleads
-distorts reality
-pretends to communicate
-avoids or shifts responsibility
-makes the negative appear positive
-creates a false verbal map of the world
-limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
-makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
-creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said
(William Lutz, Doublespeak)

Look Closer:

The Doublespeak Dictionary by Leslie Starr O’Hara
http://www.thedoublespeakdictionary.com/

Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You, by William Lutz
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2151216.Doublespeak

Greenspan describes Greenspeak, Fedspeak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ldr1vvz0w

Print More Money! according to Alan Greenspan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCWw8tQW15g&NR=1

The Magic of Pronouns: Tips For Aspiring Politicians/Criminals (...and Ron Paul)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2XuNyq9jw

I try to record an installment of School Sucks At the Movies, and fail completely. Enjoy the results!

What derailed me? The story of a new Christmas craze: The Elf On the Shelf

Bumper Music:
"Reading Time With Pickle" Regina Spektor

Look Closer:

Lesson 28: Elf on the Shelf -- Innocent Holiday Whimsy or Dangerous Informant? by Jenny Lawson
http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/130507/lesson_28_elf_on_the/

Punished by Rewards? A Conversation with Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/pdf/Punished%20by%20Rewards.pdf

The Magic of Pronouns: Tips For Aspiring Politicians/Criminals (...and Ron Paul)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2XuNyq9jw

From the New York Post (which is not a good newspaper):

Elementary School Teacher Tells Kids There's No Santa Claus
By Todd Venezia and Jennifer Bain

Even the Grinch wouldn’t be this mean.

A sourpuss teacher in Rockland County ruined Christmas for a class full of second-graders this week, when she told them that there is no Santa Claus during a lesson about the North Pole.
The evil educator even told the youngsters — mostly 7- and 8-year-olds — that the presents under their trees were put out by their parents, and not St. Nick.

Read More here...

Video:

Santa Claus Bailout Hearings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBl9BXLom4

Today we'll discuss sound, the f-word in Christmas songs and a documentary called The Cartel. This film looks at various levels of corruption in the government school system, primarily using New Jersey as a case study.

The filmmaker, Bob Bowden supports voucher programs and the expansion of charter schools. Although I have always opposed vouchers as a "solution" to a "problem," the stories in the film got me thinking about this issue in new ways. However, I am still not a proponent of vouchers.

Look Closer:

The Cartel Website
http://www.thecartelmovie.com/

An Unfavorable Review of The Cartel
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/10/the_cartel_movie_review_docume.html

$700 Billion Bank Bailout was Secretly $7 Trillion
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q42011/700-billion-dollar-bank-bailout-was-secretly-7-trillion571/

Laurette Lynn and I discuss homeschooling with Professor Robert Kunzman.

From unpluggedmom.com:

Dr. Robert Kunzman, associate professor at Indiana University teaches courses related to secondary education curriculum and instruction, including an ongoing seminar in the Community of Teachers Program. Professor Kunzman has conducted independent research on homeschooling. You can review his work on his website. Professor Kunzman’s book Write These Laws On Your Children is also available.

While he supports home education as a reasonable option, he does still feel that home ed families should be supervised and subject to standards and regulation by the board of education. It’s for the protection of the children. Now anyone familiar with me and Unplugged Mom already knows that I’m not exactly in agreement with regulation on home education so there was a matter of disagreement there.

However, I have to say that despite our differences there were many points of agreement. I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with the Professor, I am grateful for the time he gave us to discuss his work and thoughtful opinions and would be honored to talk education and home ed with him sometime again.

Look Closer:

Unplugged Mom
http://www.unpluggedmom.com/laurette-lynn/

Unplugged Mom On Blog Talk Radio
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unpluggedmom

Write These Laws On Your Children, by Robert Kunzman
http://www.amazon.com/Write-These-Laws-Your-Children/dp/0807032913

BOOK REVIEW: Write These Laws On Your Children, by Robert Kunzman
http://homeedmag.com/newscomm/3774/review-write-these-laws-on-your-children/

From freeradicalorlando.com:
Free Radical Radio with John Kurtz and Whitcomb Kincaid, Broadcasted Monday thru Friday at 7PM on 810 AM WEUS Orlando’s Real Talk is one of the most unique and informative talk-radio shows on Central Florida Radio. Premiering in September of 2011, this refreshing program breaks away from the typical Conservative – Liberal Paradigm and discusses the issues of the day in a truthful, no holds barred approach. The program has grown a very large following with its in depth and firsthand knowledge and experiences of its hosts, providing an entertaining yet thought provoking radio experience. Free Radical Radio is one of the most active and interactive local Orlando talk shows with a very high volume of call ins, online listeners and podcast downloads.

Lyrics For the Sing-Along:

Yo quiero tocar la guitarra
y necesito a bailar a la música

Junto a mí y haremos algo de música.
Ven a mi casa a mear en mi boca.

Show Website: freeradicalorlando.com

Free Radical On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FreeRadicalRadio

Over two years ago, we discussed the futility and the dangers associated with believing in the possibility government solutions to government problems. Today, there are two growing movements that may lure young people into the cage match of political participation.

Critical Thinking Question: How are we going to get all of the corruption, and abuse, and predation out of our government? Followed by some other questions that make equally as much sense (none).

Topic: Stephanie Murphy and George Mandrik join me to discuss their experiences and lessons learned from the 2008 Ron Paul Presidential Campaign. We also ruminate on what motivates people to participate in politics in the first place.

Bumper Music:
"Angry Young Man" Billy Joel

Look Closer;

"Democracy--the god that failed: the economics and politics of monarchy" By Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://books.google.com/

The Myth of Democratic Peace: Why Democracy Cannot Deliver Peace in the 21st Century by James Ostrowski
Death by government By R. Rummel
http://books.google.com/

Freedomain Radio-True News 5: The Truth About Voting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM

Democracy Is Not Freedom by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul233.html

FDR1980 Walter Block vs Stefan Molyneux vs Ron Paul!
http://www.freedomainradio.com/DesktopModules/UltraNewsArticle/Read.aspx?Portalid=1&ArticleId=2470

FDR 972 The Ron Paul Revolution - A Postmortem (and prescription)
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Podcasts/PodcastList/tabid/72/mid/434/articleId/1478/ctl/ReadDefault/Default.aspx

Marc Stevens, author of Adventures In Legal Land and host of the No State Project, joins me to illuminate the dark and bizarre world of the so-called justice system.

With this focus on law and the courts, we discuss the second form of doublespeak: jargon. Marc also explains his Socratic approach to defending against the doublespeak of lawyers, judges and tax collectors.

"Doublespeak is not lying, nor is it merely sloppy language. It is the intentional use of euphemisms, synonyms, jargon, and vagueness which pretends to communicate but really does not, or implies the opposite of what it would appear to communicate." -Metta Winte

Bumper Music:
"One Million Lawyers" Tom Paxton

Look Closer:

The Doublespeak Dictionary by Leslie Starr O’Hara
http://www.thedoublespeakdictionary.com/

Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You, by William Lutz
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2151216.Doublespeak

MarcStevens.net
http://marcstevens.net/

Adventures In Legal Land
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061512299X?tag=openlibr-20

No State Project
http://marcstevens.net/nsp-commercial-free.html?layout=defaulthttp://marcstevens.net/

William Lutz Biography
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/xbrl/2006/wlutz_bio.pdf

With a focus on the intellectually insulting tactics of the mainstream media, I discuss an often overlooked form of doublespeak: the cacophemism (aka malphemism or dysphemism).

In language, dysphemism (from the Greek dys δύς "mis-" and pheme φήμη "reputation"), malphemism (in Latin malus "bad"), and cacophemism (in Greek kakos κακός "bad") refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. -Wikipedia

Defining attributes of doublespeak:
-misleads
-distorts reality
-pretends to communicate
-avoids or shifts responsibility
-makes the negative appear positive
-creates a false verbal map of the world
-limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
-makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
-creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said
(William Lutz, Doublespeak)

Bumper Music:
"That's Not My Name" The Ting Tings

Look Closer:

The Doublespeak Dictionary by Leslie Starr O’Hara
http://www.thedoublespeakdictionary.com/

Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You, by William Lutz
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2151216.Doublespeak

With a focus on the misleading and manipulative language of the military, I discuss the first form of doublespeak: the euphemism.

Defining attributes of doublespeak:
-misleads
-distorts reality
-pretends to communicate
-avoids or shifts responsibility
-makes the negative appear positive
-creates a false verbal map of the world
-limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
-makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
-creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said
(William Lutz, Doublespeak)

Look Closer:

The Doublespeak Dictionary by Leslie Starr O’Hara
http://www.thedoublespeakdictionary.com/

Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You, by William Lutz
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2151216.Doublespeak

Government by Euphemism, by Sheldon Richman
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0407a.asp

Rendition: a dangerous euphemism
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Editorial/Rendition-a-dangerous-euphemism/2005/03/10/1110417612086.html

Propaganda, American-style by Noam Chomsky
http://www.zpub.com/un/chomsky.html

Kelly Halldorson from unschoolbus.com joins me to discuss her family's unschooling awakening. Kelly and her husband Jeff are the parents of three unschooled teenagers. We also cover the reactions and judgements of others, the challenges, travels on the Unschool Bus and the successes of liberty-minded parenting.

Correction: Northeast Unschooling Conference, not New England Unschooling Conference

Look Closer:

unschoolbus.com
http://kelly.halldorson.com/blog/

Northeast Unschooling Conference
http://www.northeastunschoolingconference.com/

porcfest.com
http://porcfest.com/

PICTURE: I show a teacher the most valuable tool of the government school system and the public employee unions.

At the end of March 2011, I was lucky enough to encounter a public school teacher who had come to protest the NH budget cuts in Concord, NH. She agreed to a discussion, which lasted about half an hour. Jason Talley was there to film it.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

PICTURED (L to R): Brett Veinotte, Bob Murphy, Kelly Halldorson, Jenn Hewson, Eileen Landies

From porcfest.com:
This forum brings together Porcupines in the know about many areas of NH education. This will be an open discussion on educating your children in the free state. If you are concerned about state regulations, finding homeschool or unschool groups, or getting to know the individuals who are fighting for parental rights, this is the one-stop-shop for addressing your concerns. Educational freedom activists, homeschoolers, and unschoolers will answer questions and discuss various aspects of education in NH.

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BACKGROUND: The consequences of state aggression.
FOREGROUND: Probably most of the people you know.

Today's show includes Paul, Rob and Adam from Remedy Radio. We discuss a variety of topics, including the essential process of becoming an autodidact. We also devote some time to the difficult process of discussing our ideas and conclusions with others, and some strategies for doing so.

Topics:
-My path to teaching
-Serious questions about the necessity of higher education in the 21st century
-The challenge of engaging people on these ideas
-Reconciling private virtue with political or public aggression
-Logical fallacies

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

The second installment in a series of shows about the teachers and public sector unions, and the recent protests. It would have been nice to skip this topic, but we can't.

Discussed:
-The Myths of Hoover vs. FDR on economic policy
-Presidential "Terribles" and their media challenges/triumphs
-The ease of spreading propaganda vs. the challenge of providing context
-Manipulation of statistics
-Ignorantio Elenchi: the irrelevant conclusion logical fallacy

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

My recent appearance on RT America's show Adam vs. the Man with Adam Kokesh. The show airs M-F at 7pm EST.

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Viktor E. Frankl

This is not an investigation into the veracity of the claims that the US military killed Bin Laden. It is an examination of why - once again - there is so little curiosity or doubt from the public and the media.

Topics:
-What 9/12/01 looked and felt like
-"Choices" for travel, TSA
-The argument from authority easily prevails in the absence of critical thinking
-Lessons in authority worship from school
-Obama speech mock press conference
-My reaction to the public reaction
-A closer look at al Qaeda, Bin Laden and intelligence relationships
-Confirmation Bias
-Logical fallacies

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

An introduction to a series of shows about the teachers and public sector unions, and the recent protests. It would have been nice to skip this topic, but we can't.

Discussed:
-Angry again
-The Wisconsin situation spreads
-Students protesting with and for teachers
-Public sector union evasion
-Voices
-Choices
-Consistency
-The inverse relationship between obvious truth and the need for training

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At 52:53 in Keys #5: Unplugging and Activating, I cut out about 25 minutes of off-topic discussion to tighten up the show. However, I think it is definitely worth hearing.

Discussed:
-The War on Independent Thinking in schools, fact-checking teachers
-The demand for "alternative" central plans
-The futility of engaging the elders?
-Can young people help their parents unplug?
-Measuring personal success
-Celebrity Worship
-Self-trust

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Topic:
Laurette Lynn of Unpluuggedmom.com joins me to discuss the challenges of home education and active parenting...and how to overcome them.

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Topic: Aleks, a professor at Washington State University, joins me to discuss his blog entry: Education Reform-Can we blame the students?

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Stephanie Murphy and I host the FTL Sunday Show (03-13-11). The very talented Hannah Hoffman joins us about half way into the show, so be sure to get the whole show from the FTL archives. This is only the first half.

Discussed:
-The Wisconsin situation, Students protesting with teachers
-Public vs. private sector unions
-The mind-numbing mainstream media
-Republicans and Democrats
-Corporations
-Reformed conservative
-Treatment of children in society
-Listening
-ROTC and Police "Explorers"

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CHART: Some of the consequences of bullying

Topic: This is my commentary on a NH Department of Education bullying seminar. The DoE's plan in a nutshell: If aggression causes aggression, try aggression.

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(Part 1 of 2)
For the last two months, I have been working primarily with younger kids (ages 6-10). While comparing and contrasting these recent experiences to my work with high school students, I gained a fresh perspective on this whole "school sucks" idea.

Discussed:
-Domination Systems
-Crushing...courage, imagination, ambition, individuality
-NCLB
-Bureaucratic inertia in the tutoring business

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Part 2 of 2)
On February 26th 2011, I took part in a discussion about John Holt's book, Instead of Education. Other participants included Stefan Molyneux, Jake Desyllas, Luke David, Michael Demarco, Thomas Bell, Debbie Harbeson, Ivan Ivanov and Cheryl Hulseapple. Special thanks to Greg for setting up the conference on Skype.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Part 1 of 2)
On February 26th 2011, I took part in a discussion about John Holt's book, Instead of Education. Other participants included Stefan Molyneux, Jake Desyllas, Luke David, Michael Demarco, Thomas Bell, Debbie Harbeson, Ivan Ivanov and Cheryl Hulseapple. Special thanks to Greg for setting up and managing the conference on Skype.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

PICTURE: Friedrich Nietzsche had eyebrows, mustaches, and ideas that all eventually grew out of control.

In my SAT class last Saturday (2-19-11), a student pulled out an interesting essay question: "Is the purpose of education to change the world?"

At this point, I was compelled to tell a story.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Back when I was a teenager, in the mid-1990s, a myriad of politicians, reporters, experts and officials all shared a serious concern over a growing problem: me

“Today’s media portrayals of teens employ the same stereotypes once openly applied to unpopular racial and ethnic groups: violent, reckless, hypersexed, welfare-draining, obnoxious, ignorant. And like traditional stereotypes, the modern media teenager is a distorted image, derived from the dire fictions promoted by official agencies and interest groups.” -Mike Males, Bashing Youth (1994)

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Wes, Stef and I discuss the theories of Marshall Rosenberg.

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Why do most people turn a blind eye to the violence of the state? (Part 3)

Discussed Today:
-The Supplemental Security Income program
-How the poor are victimized in the name of helping the poor
-Medicaid
-Other dependency traps

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

This is an excerpt from my recent appearance on Peace Revolution Podcast. In this episode, we discuss economic theory and the history of money.

How does this relate to education? In this clip, we'll also touch on the "deliberate dumbing down" of the population, along with the importance of a systematic form of critical thinking, understanding rhetoric and the use of logical fallacies.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Kids Are Not Defective Part 10)

Today, a further exploration of acquiescence and aggression, from a different angle.

Stephanie Murphy, Wes Bertrand and I discuss the perpetuation of gender roles and stereotypes throughout childhood, referencing the work of Cordelia Fine.

We also question the disparity between the numbers of men and women in the liberty movement and the Free State Project.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

The news over the last month has been interesting...

The invasive TSA.
The emerging snitch society.
The calls for the execution of Julian Assange.

Surprised? Outraged?
Juxtapose today's current events with your childhood experiences.
Were you expecting some other social or political reality?

Today's show is a renewed call to strike at the root of the acquiescence and aggression making it all possible.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

School Sucks has been nominated for Podcast Awards in the Education and Best Produced categories. Voting begins December 1st and runs through the 15th.You can vote once a day!

Please consider voting for...
Best Produced: School Sucks
People's Choice: Freedomain Radio
Politics: Wheels Off Liberty or Free Talk Live
Cultural/Arts: Pirates of Savannah
Education: School Sucks or Freedomain Radio
Health: Healthy Mind, Fit Body
Comedy: Joe Rogan

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A look at my own professional past, and at what happens on the other side of the gun.(Part 2)

Discussed Today:
-I gave kids drugs
-I was a 'good' employee
-I worked at a 'good' residential treatment center
-Medicaid
-The lure of bad money
-Good Intentions, in service of evil
-The Milgrim Experiment
-Voices of the institutionalized children

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Complete Liberty Podcast Episode 127 Repost)

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Today's guests are Richard Grove, Jan Irvin, and Paul Verge: three friends, independent media creators, collaborators, and School Sucks listeners who have teamed up to produce a new You Tube series called What You've Been Missing.

From Tragedyandhope.com: What You've Been Missing was created to fill the massive gap created by corporate media, between itself and reality.
A virtual variety show with a point, WYBM helps you learn how to outgrow the status quo; through a systematic process of critical thinking supplemented with comedy.

In addition to discussing this superb new project, we also explore the lost art of real learning and critical thinking, self-esteem, the deceptive power of language, and the people who lurk in the shadows of state power. Paul, Jan and Rich have done an exhaustive amount of research on these topics, and I am very pleased to introduce them to my audience and the LRN community.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Addendum: This part was cut out of the conversation but I thought it was worth hearing.

Topic:
Today I discuss collective and authoritarian schooling with a veteran teacher who walked away from the public school setting just four weeks into his new job. Rich Nastro explains why he did this, and what he saw while he was there.

...quickly

PART 2: Is Anyone Learning About Economics In School? Anyone?

Topic:
Today I discuss collective and authoritarian schooling with a veteran teacher who walked away from the public school setting just four weeks into his new job. Rich Nastro explains why he did this, and what he saw while he was there.

We'll Discuss...

-The lies of government school history (every crisis is presented as a problem of too much freedom)
-Voting
-Family to schooling to Citizenship
-The success of Government school (in service to evil)
-Propaganda: Mixing the good with the evil
-If force comes first, it doesn't matter what happens next
-Erica Goldson
-The National Debt: it's for the children...to pay
-Central planning of the economy, the coming collapse and the economic aftermath
-The road to serfdom, governments make dependents

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

...quickly

PART 1: Preparation For Citizenship

Topic:
Today I discuss collective and authoritarian schooling with a veteran teacher who walked away from the public school setting just four weeks into his new job. Rich Nastro explains why he did this, and what he saw while he was there.

We'll Discuss...
-Literacy and Information Literacy
-Public Education and the Welfare State, Failure Reframed As Success
-Portrayal of the Public Education System In Film
-Introducing Philosophy to the History Cirriculum
-Squeeky Wheels Get the Grease
-Working with Students From Broken Homes
-Day-to-Day living/short-term thinking of abused kids
-Preparation for the Economic Realities of the 21st Century
-Grades and Diplomas as "Job Tickets," but where are the jobs?

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE/OFFENSIVE CONTENT

Topics::
-Voting
-Transvestites
-Voting For Transvestites
-Government Marriage
-California Prop 19
-Public Education

Don't Listen To:
Wheels Off Liberty Podcast
http://wheelsoffliberty.com/wordpress/

In today's installment, I interview Steve Ressler, founder of the government employee social networking site govloop.com, and organizer of the Government Doesn't Suck Rally (October 30th, Washington D.C.). I happen to have a show that suggests the government does suck, so I thought we could bounce some ideas off each other.

I skipped past a number of arguments and questions to deal specifically with the non-aggression principle.

While I thought this would be little more than an amusing discussion, it actually evolved into a larger examination of empathy, forgiveness, and differentiation within the bureaucratic structure.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Today's show begins with a compilation of audio clips and polite exchanges from the last six months, looking at the response to School Sucks outreach in the city of Keene, NH.

Also included is the audio from panel discussion organized by Michael Garcia at Free Keene Fest (October 17th, 2010). The topics included communication and outreach strategies. I was asked to participate, joining Rich Paul, Antigone Darling and Luthor Freeman/Kingsley on the panel.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

On Saturday, October 16th, I was one of the fill-in hosts on my all-time favorite radio show, Free Talk Live. I was on the the air with Stephanie Murphy of Porc Therapy and Gardner Goldsmith of Liberty Conspiracy Podcast. We had such a terrific time that we decided to do an internet-only extended addition of the show.

If you listened on the radio, you missed the last hour and a half of our conversation. This is the internet-only portion of the show.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

No one could answer all of the questions about how child protection would work in a voluntary society. However, due to my past professional experience, I can answer a lot of questions about how it works today.

Topic:
A recent CPS story in Concord, NH got me thinking about my own professional history, on the "other side of the gun." I spent four years of my career working with kids who were in state custody. (Part 1)

Discussed Today:
-The John Irish/Oathkeepers Story
-Child Protection In A Voluntary Society Questions
-My Path to Working With Young People
-Residential Treatment
-Welfare Incentives
-The Horrors of CPS Politics
-Foster Care

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Critical Thinking Question:
What is the real purpose of government?

Topic:
This (third part of three) is the continuation of a two-part discussion I recently had with Wes Bertrand. On September 18th, I tried to weave a series of loosely related thoughts together into one topic, while driving. I wasn't thrilled with the result. I eventually contacted Wes to help me try to make sense of it all.

This is an examination of how fantasy is used to manage personal and/or political anxiety, the relationship between the personal and the political, and how outrage and attack are employed to deal with the disruption of fantasy.

Discussed Today:
-Trust in government coming back?
-Faith and Force
-Violence as virtue
-The historical purpose of government
-People in NYC loved the Gambino Family. Why?

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Topic:
This (second part of three) is the beginning of a two-part discussion I recently had with Wes Bertrand. On September 18th, I tried to weave a series of loosely related thoughts together into one topic, while driving. I wasn't thrilled with the result. I eventually contacted Wes to help me try to make sense of it all.

This is an examination of how fantasy is used to manage personal and/or political anxiety, the relationship between the personal and the political, and how outrage and attack are employed to deal with the disruption of fantasy.

Discussed Today:
-Me and my uncle; comparing our anxiety
-Focusing on the meta-talk of political and philosophical discussions
-Developing an emotional vocabulary
-Self-esteem and the works of Nathaniel Branden

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

A stand-alone episode of School Sucks Podcast...in three parts.

Critical Thinking Question:
What are some strategies you could use to tell the difference between having a debate with someone, and watching them have an anxiety attack?

Topic:
This (first part of three) is a set-up for a two-part discussion I recently had with Wes Bertrand. On September 18th, I tried to weave a series of loosely related thoughts together into one topic, while driving. I wasn't thrilled with the result. I eventually contacted Wes to help me try to make sense of it all.

This is an examination of how fantasy is used to manage personal and/or political anxiety, the relationship between the personal and the political, and how outrage and attack are employed to deal with the disruption of fantasy.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

This is an interview I did for Jan Irvin's Gnostic Media Podcast on May 9th 2010. Brand new shows are coming soon!!

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(Kids Are Not Defective Part 9)

Topic:
I meet up with Stephanie Murphy and Mike Barskey, the hosts of Porc Therapy Podcast, to discuss common types of dysfunction in adult relationships.

We examine the question:
Are there embedded lessons or messages from school and childhood that most people can't seem to escape in their adolescent and adult romantic relationships?

The Lessons From School:
1. People can be easily changed
2. It's dangerous/abnormal/inconsiderate to express your emotions
3. Pay attention to words, ignore deeds

We cover the all-too-common phenomenon of 'settling,' due to a lack of self-knowledge and low self-esteem.

I also discuss my experience with the "Skinner Box" of relationships.
If I do this, I will get this.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

My September 2nd, 2010 Discussion With Gardner Goldsmith

Topics Covered:
-Gardner's Experience Wearing A School Sucks T-Shirt In Public
-Explaining the Philosophy of Liberty to "Political" People
-The Insanity of Central Planning
-The History of Government Education
-Keene School Outreach and Related Outrage
-Background of School Sucks Project
-Vouchers
-Redefining Education
-Impacts of Indoctrination

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(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" is gradually diminished. We also explore the conjecture that government school's theft of our sense of personal power contributes to a desire to experience heroism only through fantasy.

Then, "heroism" gets a long overdue redefining.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Critical Thinking Questions:
We are told in school that this "education" will open up the world to us and create endless options for our future. So why does it often feel like the world is being closed off and our options are being diminished?

Topic:

emergence (noun):
1. coming out of, passage out
2. a beginning
3. coming into sight

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(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.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(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 is a long and winding show that covers a valedictorian's brave and moving graduation speech, leading into a discussion of the problems created for all students by the carrots and sticks of school. As Alfie Kohn points out in his book (linked below), even the rewards are a kind of punishment, robbing us of our own purpose and intrinsic motivation.

Whether we are the "overachiever" who gets the carrots or the "underachiever" who gets the sticks, these metaphors for the management of our lives tend to leave some holes, or even emptiness, in who we are.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

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 focused on the inability of adolescents to handle the stimulation they get from the technology of today.

From Scientific American:

Bully or Victim? More Similar Than We Might Think

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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 stirring discomfort
From mysanantonio.com
By Lindsay Kastner - Express-News

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 without a helmet.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

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 not heard it yet.

I also include some thoughts on my recent experience at the 2010 Porcupine Freedom Festival.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(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 development of new ideas

Forced Associations
Adolescence is plagued by an artificial, society-created extension of childhood dependence. This is time where people can certainly begin to achieve greater self-knowledge and emotionally maturity, unless they're trapped in place that prevents it. There is no escape from the negativity; school is compulsory

The Hypocrisy of Adults
What's even worse: in this place, some pretty abhorrent behavior is modeled for kids on a daily basis. This behavior violates all three of the kindergarten rules: don't hurt others, don't steal, tell the truth

The same people benefiting from this behavior are the ones tasked with making children "good"

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(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 the victim of someone else.

This is a quick look at root causes, but there is more to come on this topic.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

This is an abridged version of a longer show.

PICTURE: What kind of a person commands other people to kneel in front of them?

(Kids Are Not Defective Part 3)

Topic:
Ahhh, religion. Another great way to learn about all the things that are wrong with you.

An examination of the amazing contradictions and inconsistencies in American Culture. Could culture even exist if people applied principles consistently?

I also look back at my own Roman Catholic upbringing, specifically at an interaction with a nun resulting from my curiosity over the chronology of the life of Jesus. Then I imagine the same interaction with a more precocious and enlightened child.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Kids Are Not Defective Part 3)
This is the long version.

PICTURE: What kind of a person commands others to kneel in front of them?

Topic:
Ahhh, religion. Another great way to learn about all the things that are wrong with you.

I receive an email from a Conservative Christian organization that sends me into an explosive rant and an examination of the amazing contradictions and inconsistencies in American Culture. Could culture even exist if people applied principles consistently?

I also look back at my own Roman Catholic upbringing, specifically at an interaction with a nun resulting from my curiosity over the chronology of the life of Jesus. Then I imagine the same interaction with a more precocious and enlightened child.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

(Kids Are Not Defective Part 2)

Topic:
After reflecting on the last show, I wanted to explore my family comments a bit more thoroughly. Why do adults jump so quickly to the defense of the authority figures in their lives? Why are so many people resistant to the idea that their childhoods were not exactly great? When and how will the effects of childhood mistreatment reveal themselves? Because they always do.

To answer these questions, I briefly channel a "composite character" assembled from many of my past discussions about raising children.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

PICTURED: A listener sent me this example of his son's (first grade) school work, which includes the teacher's thoughts on his exercise of creativity.

The introduction to a new series of shows about some other messages forced into the minds of children and young adults. These shows will include topics like medication, parenting, spanking, behavioral "disorders," bullying, "reward" systems and zero tolerance policies.

Also, a discussion of how the state is "fed" by the schools and the family.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Picture: The primary lesson of public school politics.

Congress, Ariz. school district sues taxpayers to stop questions

Mark Flatten
Goldwater Institute Watchdog Report
March 10, 2010

A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg, Arizona are being targeted by the local school district in a lawsuit that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public records, sue the district, or complain to outside agencies.

The Congress Elementary School District claims that past efforts by these residents to obtain documents such as minutes of board meetings and spending reports amount to harassment that should not have to be tolerated.

Please visit schoolsucksproject.com for full show notes, references and links.

Critical Thinking Question:
Imagine if we all woke up tomorrow and all government was just...gone. What's the worst thing that could happen? And how would statists feel about this most catastrophic outcome?

The answer might surprise you.

Topic:
The three most persistent myths throughout history:
1. The State is essential for the survival of the human race
2. Slavery is essential for the prosperity of all societies reliant upon agriculture
3. God and religion are essential for establishing morality

Two down, one to go.

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Picture: Pragmatists love charts. Charts that illustrate effects. So here's a chart showing how much government school sucks. It's also pretty representative of all 'services' provided at gunpoint, in terms of cost verses quality.

Critical Thinking Questions:
-Why do people accept government education?
-Why do people need tangible alternatives?

Topic:
Kate Richards from The Scholars' Academy joins me to discuss the possibility of non-government solutions and alternatives to public education. Although we are both supporters of unschooling, we discuss the importance of recognizing the harsh reality of the current situation: government school today holds over 90% of the young people in this country and eats up 600 billion dollars a year. Therefore, it is important to contemplate options and ideas for the transition from where we are to where we would like to be.

Kate explains that people are more willing to seriously consider alternatives if they can be presented with something tangible, already in operation. In our arguments for the abolition of public education, we often face two significant challenges:

1. Well-grained societal illusions about the benevolence or the necessity of government school
2. The apparent lack of alternatives, or 'abstract' explanations of other ways young people can learn

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Picture: Hey kids! The military wants you to know that if you eat right and exercise, a nice box like one of these could have your name on it one day.

School lunches called a national security threat!
Retired military officers say kids are growing up too pudgy for service

WASHINGTON - School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military's physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.. Read More Here

On Wednesday April 14th, I was invited to speak to the UConn Students For Liberty at the University of Connecticut. I had prepared a thirty-minute speech, and planned to devote another 30 minutes to Q&A. However, the audience included several socialists, and the entire event wound up running three hours.

I gave some of the speech. Even though the outcome was different from what I anticipated, and I didn't counter their objections as well as I would've liked, I thought the whole experience was great.

I have split it into two parts. This part includes a bit of political discussion. I also talk in depth about my difficulties in trying to figure out my role as a tutor, and dealing with parents.

NOTE: The first minute overlaps the the end of the last part (the Prussian discussion).

NOTE: Special thanks to Jon Mohrbacher, Ryan Safner and Howie Reith.

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Picture: My estimate of the audience members' average political position, based on the World's Smallest Political Quiz.

On Wednesday April 14th, I was invited to speak to the UConn Students For Liberty at the University of Connecticut. I had prepared a thirty-minute speech, and planned to devote another 30 minutes to Q&A. However, the audience included several socialists, and the entire event wound up running three hours.

I gave some of the speech. Even though the outcome was different from what I anticipated, and I didn't counter their objections as well as I would've liked, I thought the whole experience was great.

I have split it into two parts. This first part will include a lot of repeated information, as I planned to speak to a number of people who were unfamiliar with the show. The second part is more of a discussion.

NOTE: The first few minutes are clipped off as I was walking around and having the audience fill out Nolan Charts, so I could have a better sense of the political viewpoints.

NOTE: Special thanks to Jon Mohrbacher, Ryan Safner and Howie Reith.

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Topic:
From Capitol Access Website: Denis and Lydia interview Brett V., host of the School Sucks Podcast and creator of SchoolSucksProject.com -- a project concerning, in his words, "the END of public education"
Brett is a professional educator who has come to realize that the basic design of public school "sucks" the creative capacity out of children, and also "sucks" wealth away from more productive uses.

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Critical Thinking Question:
Statism appears to be only example of a system of ongoing attack and predation where the aggressors seem to be more fearful of victims than the victims are of the aggressors. How do the aggressors manage these fears?

Topic:
An email from a listener gets me thinking about conspiracy theories. We'll divert our attention from the roots of the tree I like to think we're chopping at, to jump down a nearby rabbit hole. Let's see where it takes us!

-Vietnam
-Iraq and 9/11
-Climate Change
-Health Care
-19th Century German "Philosophers"

What is the Hegelian Dialectic?
And how does it relate to last episode's formula:
...the use of force
leads to
perverse unintended consequence
leads to
new problem
leads to
demand for government action
leads to
the use of force...

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ABOVE: Cary-Grove High is home of the "Trojans" and I've included the horse because we talk about government school.

Topic:
A recent discussion with Michael, a high school junior from Illinois, and a couple of friends named James. One James took a pro-government school position, and I took objection to that. Most of the discussion is between James and myself.

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A quick summary of my thoughts about the NH Liberty Forum, along with a clip of me on my favorite radio show.

With Gard Goldsmith and Mark Edge.

March 19th, 2010.

Pledge of Allegiance Apology Will Come From Montgomery Teacher
By Jenna Johnson and Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 25, 2010

A Montgomery County teacher has agreed to apologize to a 13-year-old student whom he reprimanded and sent to the office for twice refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, said a lawyer who represents the student. Read More Here

Are people outraged at the teacher?
Or the student?

The answer...will not surprise you.

ABOVE: Unlike BF Skinner's "box", used for the operant conditioning of rats, government school does have a way out.

Jack is a fourteen-year-old who left government school to educate himself. We discuss the advantages of unschooling, talking to parents about school and politics, and public perception of home schoolers.

Jack shares his story about the realizations that led to his decision to leave school, how he approached his parents, and what has happened since he withdrew.

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Some additional content from my discussion with Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live, edited out of Episode 15. We cover the Free State Project, Keene, activism for liberty, and the return-on-investment of political action and civil disobedience. Most importantly, we discuss the combination of action and an educational message.

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Critical Thinking Question:
What would you think if you saw an arsonist running back to the scene of their crime moments later...with a fire hose?

Topic:
Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live joins me to address the myth that government solves problems. We explore the phenomenon of unintended consequences, using the so-called 'war on drugs' as a case study.

The Formula:

...the use of force
leads to
perverse unintended consequence
leads to
new problem
leads to
demand for government action
leads to
the use of force
leads to
perverse unintended consequence
leads to
new problem
leads to
demand for government action
leads to
the use of force
leads to
perverse unintended consequence
leads to
new problem
leads to
demand for government action
leads to
the use of force
leads to
perverse unintended consequence
leads to
new problem
leads to
demand for government action
leads to...(repeat ad infinitum?)

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Critical Thinking Question:
You know that light at the end of the tunnel that political leaders are always pointing at...
Telling us to be hopeful about...
Directing us to follow them in that direction...

What if that distant illumination is actually the headlight on a big, dirty oncoming train with no brakes?

Topic:
A continuation of the previous topic. Gardner Goldsmith (Liberty Conspiracy) and I switch from the legend of Abraham Lincoln to the legend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We talk mostly about WWII, but I've included some additional audio covering the New Deal and Social Security - the lasting effect and current implications of FDR's policies.

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Critical Thinking Question:
How compelling could a mythology be if it didn't have any gods?

Topic:
Honestly, Abe...aggression doesn't solve problems.
The truth about the greatest American (government school) hero.

Gardner Goldsmith of Liberty Conspiracy Podcast joins me for this discussion.

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