He was the Milton Friedman scholar at the Hoover Institute but he didn’t teach classes, basically he was held there to research to his hearts content and that also became the source of his books and how he was able to gather so much data for all the books.
Well there's no substitute for experience. You can tell a child that the stove is hot, but they won't really understand until they touch it with their hand.
True. When he tells the story it makes me laugh because the look on his face when he explains the shock he felt when he realized the government wasn’t trying to solve anything
Can’t blame you. In the Air Force I witnessed that you really don’t want the govt to do a lot of things. I would say I have retained my idealism from youth but I understand reality even if I want to see things differently and personally try to make a difference where I can
I think I read that in his biography maverick which was pretty well written. But he essentially saw the writing on the wall with students in the 60s and didn’t want to be hamstrung by universities to pass midwits.
Really? I thought he kept teaching. Then again that would explain all the books he has written since then
He was the Milton Friedman scholar at the Hoover Institute but he didn’t teach classes, basically he was held there to research to his hearts content and that also became the source of his books and how he was able to gather so much data for all the books.
Still boggles my mind that being a student of Friedman didn’t cure him of his Marxism but what did was working for the government
Well there's no substitute for experience. You can tell a child that the stove is hot, but they won't really understand until they touch it with their hand.
It's a pity that it happens to so many adults.
True. When he tells the story it makes me laugh because the look on his face when he explains the shock he felt when he realized the government wasn’t trying to solve anything
I was right wing before I worked for the DoD.
I became an extremist from what I witnessed.
Can’t blame you. In the Air Force I witnessed that you really don’t want the govt to do a lot of things. I would say I have retained my idealism from youth but I understand reality even if I want to see things differently and personally try to make a difference where I can
Is falling down your biopic
I think I read that in his biography maverick which was pretty well written. But he essentially saw the writing on the wall with students in the 60s and didn’t want to be hamstrung by universities to pass midwits.