I’m excited to announce our subsequent main undertaking right here on the Mises Institute, the Classes for the Younger Economist video sequence. This will probably be designed for homeschoolers and younger folks. It is going to be one thing they may really need to watch! And with the Mises Institute’s title on it, mother and father, grandparents, and educators will know they’ll belief the content material.
The newest estimates reveal that just about 2.7 million college students have exited authorities public faculties. These college students’ households have rejected the state’s indoctrination and now they want strong educational supplies, particularly in economics.
Early in my college instructing profession (which began in 1979), I seen that the campus Marxists would basically prey on the scholars they perceived to be essentially the most gullible and best to govern. These predators included professors and numerous on-campus bureaucrats, and the predation started with the so-called freshman orientation. Freshman indoctrination can be extra correct. They might preach socialism to the scholars, by no means mentioning the realities and precise historical past of socialism however as an alternative spinning tall tales of utopian nirvana.
One scholar instructed me that in his junior 12 months of a liberal arts curriculum, he had been assigned The Communist Manifesto to learn in 4 completely different courses. Capitalism was in fact condemned as immoral and an enemy of odd folks, and economics and economists had been dismissed as instruments of capitalism.
Some college students arrived on campus open-minded and desperate to be taught in regards to the world. However they had been captured by the campus Marxists and became miniature variations of their perpetually offended leftist professors, who had been political activists first and students a faint and distant second. You most likely noticed hundreds of them on TV collaborating within the “antifascist” riots of the summer season of 2020. Over the previous twenty years, I’ve seen that there’s much less and fewer must indoctrinate the incoming freshmen; they’ve already been totally indoctrinated by their Ok-12 training.
In case you’re questioning why some opinion polls present that greater than half of in the present day’s faculty college students declare to choose the financial hell and impoverishment of socialism to financial freedom and capitalist prosperity—that they like all-powerful authorities to freedom—look to the final sixty years of intense socialist indoctrination in any respect ranges of education.
That is the legacy of the “counterculture” of the Nineteen Sixties, which was itself a product of the liberal academic paperwork. Certainly, in his day, Ludwig von Mises referred to as universities “nurseries of socialism.” He added, nonetheless, that there has at all times been a remnant of scholars who query their professors’ advocacy of socialism and interventionism and educate themselves in economics and financial actuality.
We on the Mises Institute are dedicated to rising the scale and affect of this remnant. The Classes for the Younger Economist video sequence is geared toward homeschoolers—and certainly younger folks wherever.
The undertaking consists of a sequence of 15–20-minute movies impressed by Dr. Milton Friedman’s 1979 Free to Select tv sequence that aired on PBS. Directed by Dr. Jonathan Newman and based mostly on Dr. Bob Murphy’s textbook, Classes for the Younger Economist, these quick movies will include discussions and interviews shot in a relaxed classroom environment.
Bob Murphy’s ebook has twenty-three chapters, and our plan is to supply a brief video for each. Every video will probably be free to all college students, mother and father, grandparents, and everybody all for studying about economics.
Economics training is crucial if the subsequent era is to be saved from the clutches of the conniving commies on campuses, within the academics’ unions, and all through society. These movies will educate college students within the economics and realities of financial freedom, socialism, and interventionism. They’ll train them the financial mind-set, which is able to profit them for his or her total lives and stop them from being bamboozled into supporting the destruction of their very own livelihoods.
There’s no group higher outfitted to coach college students and oldsters in economics than the Mises Institute. We all know we will do that. Our Newbies video sequence (mises.org/start) had over 5 million views simply final 12 months. We’re on to one thing huge, and now could be the time to maintain our foot on the gasoline!
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