School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation
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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
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
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
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:
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:
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/
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
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/
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
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 Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto: Enter the coupon code: "SCHOOLSUCKS"
"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 Help School Sucks, Tragedy and Hope and John Taylor Gatto: Enter the coupon code: "SCHOOLSUCKS"
