School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation

This episode is a supplement to our current "Sex-Ed" series. Christina Hoff Sommers is a former philosophy professor who now works as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of several books including Who Stole Feminism, The War Against Boys, and Freedom Feminism. She has a YouTube channel called "The Factual Feminist."









Discussion:
- I think the experiences I've had in the last year or so have led to an overly hostile and simplistic view of both academia and feminism.
-It's not feminism and it's not academia. The problem is where these two worlds collide - academic authoritarianism
- What is feminism to Christina?
- Responsibility for uncomfortable emotions
- The human need for safety, tragically expressed
- EQUALITY VS EQUITY
- Feminism's CLASSICAL LIBERAL ORIGINS
- 3 decades of specious research coming out of gender studies?
they believe they are objective, any dissent is the ideology
- Tragedy Collecting: how the culture or environment of academia contributes to this problem
- The war Against Boys - pathologizing boy behavior - school creates problems
- Are children generally hurt by gendered play

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Nathan Fraser and I have both been participants and critical observers of an interesting scene over the last decade. During that time we've watched, and participated in, projects driven by a passion for liberty but doomed by a lack of foresight and direction. Today we'll discuss how a libertarian passion project can find a way to outwit the devil. We'll explain.

Why are so many liberty activists attracted to entrepreneurship?

The connection here is kind of obvious, but if freedom is the sole priority
we risk becoming what Napoleon Hill called "aimless drifters."

A Lesson From A Book Called The $100 Start-Up:
Passion is only a third of the whole equation; you also need skills and customers. For a passion to become more than a hobby, we need to need focus on income and costs.

in other words, keep your day job at first, and learn skills that support your passion.

What are the most common reasons activists fail at business ownership?

A lesson from a book called The E-Myth:
Having great technical skills or knowledge does not mean you can run a business. If you're not ready to contemplate and embrace all the roles of running a business, you'll wind up driving yourself crazy.

Don't confuse entrepreneurship with agorism. Agorism doesn't scale.

How can you tell if your business idea is worth pursing?

- Always validate your business ideas
- Look in places where people are already making money
- Test the interest in your big idea through a series of smaller commitments

More About Nathan Fraser:
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Need Help Growing Your Business? CopyandFunnels.com
A Free guide to stop losing sales on your online store

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(Introduction to the Hidden Lessons of School)

Topic:
Introducing the three aims of public education:
blind obedience, assimilation, and the surrender of self-ownership
The Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the Cave
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?

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Matt Shumski is a former public school social studies teacher and a current School Sucks listener. You're going to love his story!

He's currently pursuing a graduate degree from the College of Education at The University of Oregon, and he also served as a core staffer at The Hive - a blog and self-directed learning resource for teens.

Recently Matt published an essay on the Hive called
How COVID-19 Can Disentangle School From Education

He's here today to discuss his research, his outlook, and much much more.



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