[This article is excerpted from chapter 8 of The Theory of Education in the United States (1931).] We may now take a rapid glance at the actual state of things which all these influences have combined to bring about. The procedure in the secondary school is perhaps sufficiently open to common observation so that we need say nothing about it
Over the course of 27 years, Mises Institute scholars have crafted and perfected a world-class week-long intensive program in Austrian economics: Mises University. This program has changed the lives of thousands of undergraduate students. Now, thanks to the support of our generous donors, it can change your life too, even if you cannot make it to
[Walter Block will be presenting the webinar How to End Unemployment in One Day Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7 p.m. EST.] How could unemployment be ended in one day? The short answer is, Pass a law making unemployment illegal, punishable by the death penalty; that will reduce unemployment to zero, heck, not in one day, but in one second. Who would
[Guido Hülsmann wrote the Foreword to Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School by Ralph Raico (2012)] History looks backward into the past, but the lesson it teaches concerns things to come. It does not teach indolent quietism; it rouses man to emulate the deeds of earlier generations.” – Ludwig von Mises The present book contains a collection
I am happy to announce that the Teacher’s Manual is now available for my introductory textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist . For those readers who are unfamiliar with it, let me explain that the student text was designed with junior-high students in mind, but it is applicable for younger, precocious students, and also even for adults who
I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching another installment of the Mises Academy online class Anatomy of the Fed. This class will cater to both the undergraduate student and the seasoned Wall Street executive. This was one of the most popular classes the first time we offered it in early 2011. The Scope of the Course This session of the
Just about everyone is drawn to the libertarian respect for property rights. Yet most people draw back from fully embracing property rights and taking libertarianism to its fulfillment in “anarcho-capitalism” or free-market anarchy. “Sure,” the cynics say, “it would be great to live in a society without the government and taxes, but who would
The great antifascist scholar Ludwig von Mises warned that government schools are an inevitable source of ethnic conflict, because dominant nationalities can use them to indoctrinate children from other cultures, pulling them away from their parents and communities. In Canada, this was explicitly the aim of the Indian residential schools, which
El gran erudito antifascista Ludwig von Mises advirtió que las escuelas públicas son una fuente inevitable de conflictos étnicos, porque las nacionalidades dominantes pueden utilizarlas para adoctrinar a los niños de otras culturas, alejándolos de sus padres y comunidades. Véase su debate sobre el dialecto y la lengua estándar en Nación, Estado y
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