welcome to the adam vs the man. special congratulations all of our viewers completing the term of forced government indoctrination tonight we are here to help you. there. about what really matters never let your schooling get in the way of your education so long all who joins us to explain how children are people too soon for liberty is in studio for a jobs forecast it's not going to be or any jobs will play is the school or is it a prison and we've got brett the knot of the school socks hard cast and then see

more singing and school's out but classes in your watch in adam vs the man. the. natural state of a child's mind is to be learning simulating information and figuring out how to survive and prosper in this world when you take such a beautiful mind force it into a classroom and force feed it pro-government propaganda that process grinds to a halt and anyone with spent any time in a government run school or so i say indoctrination center or maybe rather prison for people who haven't done anything wrong it knows they probably learned more outside the classroom than in it and the stuff that was actually useful that they learned inside the classroom could have been learned much faster of students were allowed to learn at their own pace and dogs on subjects that were of actual

interest to them it doesn't make any sense to torture a child with twelve years of mathematics education if they're passionate about art and doesn't help the math was to be forced into studying art history but why do so many students hate going to school maybe it's because they you know like to be free you know like the rest of us but. what does that matter to the president you would think a lot from his rhetoric here he is delivering this year's commencement at booker t. washington high school the success of our economy will depend on your skills but the success of our community will depend on your ability to follow the golden rule treat others as you would like to be tree in the fall of the golden rule mr president how would you like to be forced into a system that you don't want to be a part of just the receiver the plumber that can't get you a job anyway the corners to find molyneux in the premier issue of the freedoms phoenix easily nearly half of all students in major cities drop out of high school

every day an average of seventy two hundred students drop out of school that is thirteen million children fully in state schools every year forty two million american adults can't read at all fifty million can only read a fourth or fifth grade level and the number of adults classified as functionally illiterate increases by about two and a quarter million each year twenty percent of high school seniors can be classified as mean functionally illiterate at the time they graduate and after this after fifteen and i have on average fifteen thousand hours of state education seventy five percent of unemployed adults have difficulty reading and writing at a basic level seven in ten adults in prison performing the lowest literacy levels and eighty five percent of all juvenile offenders are functionally or marginally illiterate almost all of them were forced to go to government schools for many many years but all of this is meaningless without questioning the purpose behind

government schools we've been led to believe by pretentious politicians of the purpose of government run schools is to educate people if that was the case. there might be some more effective education occurring yes we many teachers in the classrooms are doing their best however the architects of the system know the real purpose behind it and the reason the government takeover of education continues to expand in reduced opportunities for american children is as h.l. mencken said quote the aim of public education is not to spread in light and said our it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level to breed and train a standardized citizenry to put down dissent in originality pushed. through. joining me now from ontario canada is philosopher and host of freedom in radio dot com stuff on molyneux so far thanks for joining us tonight thanks for i

thought let's start from the basics are our children actually people deserving of rights too or are they the property of their parents yet children are people complete and full they are you know small human beings who need care and guidance and who need rules appropriately applied and my rule of thumb as a parent is to say will my daughter thank me for this in ten or fifteen years so if i keep her safe and protect it and brush her teeth you're going to say thanks for doing all of that if i hate her for questioning me she's not going to say thank you for that so i really try to guide my parenting and i think it's a good rule of thumb to say what will make you think before when they become an adult and i think that's a pretty good way to approach it so what does this mean for how children should be raised. well children should be raised peacefully and reasonably and you might want to check out or i'd like to recommend alison cutlass book the philosophical baby she should have been on my show which says that children can start to reason morally and understand the difference between arbitrary rules like here's where you

hang your hat and moral rules like don't hit don't steal as early as fourteen or fifteen months of age and i've certainly found of my own parenting that my daughter is very very clear on what is moral and what is just an arbitrary rule that sort of for convenience and so yeah we should treat them as morally thinking and reasoning human beings they can do statistical analysis is early as eight months old or so i think we should be more in all of them and less in control of them how those are gotten us the fun she is twenty nine months and you've already had some experiences dealing with her expressing her personal preferences and ways it a lot of traditional parents would not have respected tell us about that. yeah i mean there's a kid in a playground not too far from here he's an older kid and he's a little biled a little rough and doesn't really know how much how much or other how much older. i think he was eight or nine times i mean i don't i'm not an expert on its own area and i know he's kind of rough and isabella my daughter was not so keen on playing

with him he had said you want to go and play and she said no and she's little more keen on playing with older girls then any other anyone else because we have friends who have older girls and she really likes them and so she expresses her preference i don't want to go and play with this person i want to come play with this person and i think that's wonderful i think that's fantastic i mean how after we told well no you have to go on chris you have to go and kiss your smelly old grandma so to speak rather than respecting the child and say ok so you don't want to let's talk about it and i want to find out why and understand and i think if we can keep children secure in their own preferences and respect for their own preferences i think will grow will grow a whole generation that will have very little patience for this top down hierarchy because the state or even the school so aside from making sure that every child the same as they learn how to talk and listen i assume assume that they should be listening to your park passes freedom in radio dot com what are the implications of this for how to the to be educated. well i think that when you say something like

children should be educated there's a shooting there. and there's also the idea that education is something that is imposed on children from outside and i did not stand my daughter up and proper up on stilts and say here's how you walk and i didn't sort of make her learn how to talk these are things that erupt they spontaneously erupt at great desire for children that the purpose of apparently because almost to put the brakes on the child accelerated learning so she my daughter wants to learn how to jump off everything if i think she'd get to the top of the eiffel tower and she could do that as well so it's really to slow down and focus the child's attention and so i think that what we want to do is facilitate the child's natural desire to absorb and learn about the world and make my daughter here's a sound to mimic it she gives the word in a foreign language and try to mimic it she tries to piece everything together you can't stop it from wanting to do puzzles and so it really is to throw that's that's defined that's that's not true you can't stop her from wanting to do puzzles you put her in a public school or other government run school where she's forced to be there and risible every day still she will still not like i was as

a kid not want to have anything to do with anything academic at all it was that's all the time we have so fine thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you that was philosopher and host of freedom in radio dot com stefan molyneux and now books that will get you in trouble because now the school's out you can begin your real education and i have some suggestions here but let me say first if you pick up one of the ports i'm about to recommend and don't like it after five pages move on your brain is naturally designed to be ready to absorb the information that is not some point to your success in life and let anybody tell you otherwise so today i'd like to recommend three books that were valuable to me the first is the law by now ironically when we were putting the show together i went to my bookshelf and realized that i had given away my copy of the law i like sharing books. fortunately like a lot of great books it's a veil. well for free to download from the loop on mrs institute nieces dot org

it's a very short book but it gives you a proper perspective on the law that is much closer to what edward abbey described as in contrast to today's commonly held delusions about it he said quote governments if you refuse to pay on those taxes your property will be confiscated if you attempt to defend your property you will be arrested if you resist arrest you will be clubbed if you defend yourself against clubbing you will be shot that these procedures are known as the rule of law all right so the next book i have here is atlas shrugged by ayn rand now i know the length of this book might might be a little bit intimidating and you know even though i only read this a couple of years ago i hesitated to pick it up myself before flying through all one thousand three hundred sixty eight pages if you like fiction with a purpose this book is for you and if you saw the movie atlas shrugged which was part one of three and you're dying to see what happens next you can actually skip ahead to where the movie left off and start there so finally from my favorite

author of all time dr ron paul liberty to find this book is a great reference as well as a quick read as dr paul's crisp and direct writing style makes all of the fifty issues contain the spill very easy to wrap your head around each one is covered in just a few pages and gives you a principled way to make your point on most issues if you feel like your government didn't want to teach you why empire is bad what real money is or why so many people graduate from high school without even learning how to read this book sketchy cover . but i think if i told you that reno was the only way to learn a new line there are tons of great informative and entertaining documentaries out there too but don't limit yourself to just books documentaries almost too many documentaries to list so i'll just refer you to one website as a jumping off point through world history info and what was put in this segment together and siding with books to include in taking on it so if someone said crate

something to keep kids out of trouble for the summer yeah well nothing could be further from the truth reading these books will probably get you in trouble if you live by the values they advocate and i encourage them to get in trouble but for the right reasons. thank you. but you can't you can't even. get a plan then we know we have them and i think you're going to make. me want to thank . you. we all know that the economy sock some says about is being held prisoner government run high school but the job prospects for young workers are especially bleak and unemployment friends as usual are hitting young people the hardest joining me now

for the take on this are the two co-founders of students from sloan frost and alexander thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks for having thank you so for kids say get out of high school get out of college face seen a bleak job market was a looker it's a little intimidating to be looking out there with the kinds of education we've had lack of preparation but i think it means that we're ready for a new approach we're ready to move on with our new ideas for a break out of the shell of that education system is help us and i'm really excited for what we're going to be able to do. alexander i think it's important for our generation to recognize that we can't see jobs as model from heaven to simply expect others to provide a more there's going to be a much greater emphasis on entrepreneurism in creating value transitioning between different jobs than any other generation before and we're seeing a lot of young people really embracing about it seems to be a certain resentment to i mean i'd like to think i'm beyond such petty things but i got i got to say that for kids going to high school is going to this diplomas not going to get me a job even out of college you graduate from college with

a degree and after time there are people who get jobs at mcdonald's with college diplomas i mean this is some kind of resentment here for our parents' generation you think for what they've set us up for. i think that students are sick of being held to a standard that may have worked in a cookie cutter approach before but doesn't work for us anymore you know we learn through podcast or distance learning by reading books on our own that we've picked up because we found them on amazon or some other web site instance for liberty recommended right right and we have either ship seminars that we run every week about the guys and learn new ideas they might holler in the classroom and they're really popular ten thousand students too many people are excited they're going to learn they're not going to be shackled by the consideration in the sand that what they're learning from the selves and sulfite is usually this is more valuable than what they were being taught in school absolutely the problem isn't with liberal arts education learning to sew decide whether certain ends are valuable or not what's the problem is that they're not actually getting good liberal arts

educations anymore they have to go to reading books that we provide that they can study in the dorm rooms because they're not learning about or read or anyone else in the classroom so it's really upon students today to get the sort of quality education that previous generations might have actually gotten or at least something that helps them on learn the proper get especially in economics that isn't being taught or is being taught it in government schools and that's when we come back sloan alexander here will have a special opportunity to play a new ad on versus them an exclusive game is it a school or is it a prison rather not of the school sucks podcast bronzes and as promised more singing and dancing states and you're watch an adam vs the man.

a redefinition that what we have today is not education. where we are. and yet.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for likely you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. welcome back to adam vs the man alexander mccolgan and so on frost assumes for liberty or to play a new game is it a school bar is the prison you guys ready yeah all right i'm going to raise you a scenario some of it happened at a facility either a school or a prison and you have to guess which one we're talking about we are right number

one ready for this all right and all thirty at this facility prohibited a resident from eating during meal time when the resident protested he was restrained forcibly and the author already sat on the resident until dead from suffocation you can see our substituting the really bad language and cancel the school presenters from the story about the person who committed this. in the official report. i was doing was not a drop. is it a school or is it a prison sounds like a war camp. so that i don't want to know the answer to. well for failing to give a correct answer on how to say well we're all human and. that was a school it was where fourteen year old cedric napoleon had a history of abuse and starvation as a foster child and would panic when deprived of food he died when

a special education teacher decided to use a quote there reputed floor hold with him after withholding his lunch clearly he was he was heavily scenic and had an episode and the woman that did this is still teaching our rights great for number two a resident of this facility died when an armed guard intervened with excessive force the resident was fatally shot after a run of the mill scuffle with another rather he's at the school or is it a prison. it got to. go to school police they carry guns in correct and. not to make light of this tragedy this was nov twelfth two thousand and ten when derrick lopez was shot fourteen year old while fleeing from school district police officer then you'll alvarado he had just been in a neighborhood scuffle the bus stop would stop with

a peer when oliver otto chased him into a nearby backyard with is gun drawn according to eyewitnesses the eighth grader was shot dead on the scene after rushing out of the backyard shed that he had hidden in and this officer by the way was rewarded with it minister paid administrative leave so he's on the best way to getting paid which really is kind of sad because most police officers they both you know commit something like this they end up on paid vacation so all right we have we have one more here. residents are routinely sense to periods up to four years at this facility with interspersed periods of conditional parole during internment at this facility residents are ordered to participate in labor for eight to twelve hours a day depending on very innocent asks of their authority is true zing and a laws allow for labor to be assigned during paroled periods because in a pattern here in the south folks are going through it was live the old well if you said that was a prison again that would be incorrect sounds like the school at work. all right

simply put this is obviously your average public high school children are sleep deprived and overworked for little or no educational benefit so two definitions for you know prison a place or condition of confinement or forcible restraint school an institution for educating children. it's example number three sound like they're sending a child through this gauntlet is just as likely to ruin their life as empowered all right you guys are over three fact that attention with you thank you so much for doing things and having it they did. all right bret the knot is the host of the school socks podcast a door to complete freedom of pandering opportunity and greater personal

satisfaction public education is the law this show is about finding the key thanks so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me on all right so tell us what is the biggest problem facing our educational system today oh in one word impostures we have this monstrous antiquated soul sucking bureaucracy called government school that for the last century has been masquerading around this country and others calling it solves education and i think that one of the things that i'm trying to do with my show and one of the things that i hope young people realize is that this is a war that is in desperate need of redefinition like education is a lifelong self directed individual pursuit and schools certainly may suck but education is a wonderful and liberating are able. oh isn't school system is great it does

everything it's it was you know set up to do one hundred years ago it works perfectly it's like the best government program ever that's a good point so let me ask you a question then because you don't you give us a lot of thought you really look at the gaps to put it mildly in the indoctrination the children receive in america today if you were invited to give a commencement speech at a high school graduations a day as as obama was recently with kind of the meaningless cheerleading that you would expect from you i would hope that you would have something a little more meaningful to impart on high school graduates what would that be. well you know i would want them to know that obviously there's still a lot to learn but more importantly or perhaps equally importantly there's a lot i'm learning i think we put so much emphasis in the society on the importance of a high school diploma i mean i've applied for

a lot of jobs no one's ever asked me for mine but if you are worth anything anyways they don't look at your high school the pullman goes oh right this guy knows how to read this guy knows his civics this guy knows his and that they already can't even say that about it well some employers might care because they would look at that diploma and they would say wow here's a guy who knows how to sit still and polygraph right and for most corporate neela's some problems that's that's a pretty important skill down yeah absolutely but i think instead of the idea that we're ahead when we're out of high school it's more like we're in a hole and well i would love to talk about and i have to some extent on my show about all of the alternatives the new approaches to new ideas and most importantly this redefinition of the word itself we also have to realize the whole were and how to get out you know lake school is pretty much about the inculcation of obedience

and conformity that are you know it fair enough fair i got to go but is it can you really say that you can just be this critical of if you don't have an alternative for educating children i mean if this is the best society has to offer like if i don't have my own system or what would my system be right. again in one word nothing i don't know how many kids are in public school today forty million fifty million but education like i said this is up to the individual everybody has different needs and desires and aspirations of the idea that you could put them all into the same mold i think that that's really draw on. education might need to be ten thousand one hundred thousand different things and madge and shiny and i think it would be like trying to centrally planned the internet. and you have absolutely our will that's all the time we have thank you so much for joining us brett we're not of the school socks cast thank you all right so finally

for those of you who like me never had a date for the prom our next guests have the solution for that coming out this saturday in d.c. joining me now are edward and catherine ticknor zones and i write excellent to the organizers of an event that i've been doing my best to promote online via facebook and i've been amazed at the reception for this i told someone about it at the livery on the rocks happy hour the other night and they were like oh my god for their so i'm getting ahead of myself a little bit tell us first what event three years ago precipitated tomorrow's dance party silent headphones only dance party at the jefferson memorial take off at noon be there. two years ago it was two almost three years ago a group of friends went to the washroom memorial. for a jefferson memorial to celebrate jefferson's birthday they arrived there was on

saturday it was on a saturday and then a midnight at night no one was there and they decided that the guy that led the charge was jason teles real popular activist in new hampshire and they decided they'd put their. i pod in their ear ear buds and i wrote rooms and that they would silently dance for ten to twenty minutes celebrating thomas jefferson in his ideals and the ideals i mean you're kind of making fun of the fact that at this memorial i was it is a memorial i shouldn't give air quotes that what i think but there's more that there are the you know celebrating one of america's foremost advocates. free speech and expression thought are of the constitution you can't express yourself verbal you can make any noise you said ok we're going to respect that but we're going to dance so what happened well they were dancing and i guess maybe five to ten minutes in it security showed up and told them to leave the premises one woman.

better believe it was my last and she kept dancing and she was arrested and so what happened this week that it is specifically this event. this week a judge ruled a very is basically bill legal to do with your with your i pod and with your headphones then it is illegal to to. someone and you're going to be there rocking out this week and we're going to be listening to i am i and i think i'm going to go with the dance music as much as possible basically i got involved with this i was not aware of the first event that happened years ago but it's great about this and hearing the fact that you know we're talking about respectful their specs all self-expression no boom boxes this is all silent dancing and again in a very unobtrusive manner and the fact that judge would rule or at least issue an opinion saying that this was outside of our right it right just seemed almost an

surfaces of what the jefferson memorial state park right now i'm as you guys to stick around for a little something special because we're going it were to demonstrate this for audience but i promise them before we forget the dancing. that i was going to sing as well and catherine have agreed to help me close of the show with all thing we've we've never done before you got your headphones right like i do ok so regular viewers of the show and fans of the old radio show adam vs the man are familiar with with my passionate distain for the scam known as intellectual property and yes i know i'm sorry as i respond to all the comments about intellectual property the long boring video on your own i might get with this weekend but for all you naysayers out there who still think that using the force of government soon please impede the free flow of ideas is a good thing i have come up with the greatest argument against intellectual property ever are you ready you see no school's out for summer special would be complete without.