QandO Podcast
MichaelW on Mar 05 2007 at 4:15 am | Filed under: MichaelW's Page, Uncategorized
Dale and McQ were gracious enough to invite me as a guest on their latest podcast, which you can get here. We discussed the dust-up at Dean’s World, the problems with giving kids self-esteem (instead of helping them earn it), as well as the TSA and “Freedom of Choice” give-aways to Big Labor, among other things. So go and check it out. Later on I’ll post links to some of the particular articles and blog posts discussed in the podcast if anyone’s interested.
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The View From the Bluff: Lance’s Economic and Finance Blog
[...] One of the articles that I mentioned in the podcast (which, looking back on it, was only tangentially related to the topic at hand, and only in the kindest sense of the term “tangential”) involved the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle. When discussing how the education industry had over-dosed on boosting kids’ self-esteem, I was reminded of the blatantly anti-capitalist and anti-property social experiment conducted at Hilltop over a bunch of Legos. Maureen Martin described the ordeal at TCS Daily (HT: Ilya Somin): A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of “Rethinking Schools” magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil. [...]