Milton Friedman Speaks: Putting Learning Back in the Classroom (B1235) - Full Video

I’ve been on a binge of Mr. Friedman’s lectures recently. His ideas will stand true through the test of time.

Good to see they had people asking stupid questions back in the day. I was worried it was a modern phenomenon.

Imagine what our country could have been if we had followed this path decades ago.

Milton Friedman was a genius. His ideas still ring true today.

Milton Friedman never fails to amaze; he was a giant standing heads and shoulders above the intelligentsia. He was, for all practical purposes, intellectually indisputable. He was logical, reasonable, data-driven, research-oriented, and historically prescient, all the while delivering the aforementioned with a pleasant smile on his face.

Dr. Friedman has a point. Voucher schooling system is very effective. Not only does it improve the variety of quality schools but forces public schools to improve in order to compete. It also makes a lot of low income parents work their assess off to improve their incomes. Because, then they can send their kid to the best schools. Lots of private community schools are established to meet the demand thus created jobs for locals. It isn't perfect, but the net benefit is a general improvement of schooling for middle and low income groups.

I enjoyed the last question very much. It made me forget the frustrating previous ones.

Challenge Dr. Friedman to a debate..... gotta love the response "effecive use of my time" As one said "Milton was born smart"

40+ years later, it's even more accurate. I live in France, a near-marxist society. The school is mostly in public hands, and it does s... Public sector has grown so much, employs so many people, that it has become absolutely impossible to change it. Still free societies should be very vigilant so to avoid that no-return point.

The first questioner was a very angry person. He would have been no match for Dr. Friedman in a real debate.

Q&A: Liberals were still bad, but at least they were civil enough to debate o;

Milton Friedman dealt with the first question beautifully. "Labour part" communist took exception to common sense from the free market champion.

EXTREMELY INCISIVE! MILTON IS A LEGEND!

17:18 - connections with school & parents 18:08 - Fundamental change in responsibility(R) in ppls minds. Detached R

He seems to make an assumption that parents care. Yet the parents in the neighborhoods that he cites as bad examples probably don't care, as long as they can live in public housing and get Medicaid and food stamps (or whatever food stamps are called now). They apparently can't keep their pants on and spend on TVs, drugs, and who knows what else. When I was working as a volunteer in a local charity, I saw that these chronic dependents were victims of their own bad choices and had bigger TVs than I'm willing to pay for, which I buy from my earned money, as they do not. I began as a sympathetic go-gooder, but now I'm disillusioned with these people. Nothing we do will fix them. Like the chronically homeless, they just end up back where they started because they don't change their behavior.

the "picture" went completely black when butthead bill was sworn in in 1993 no light yet 2019

Steve Jobs in an interview on education said exactly the same, even mentioning the voucher idea...

@Freetochoose what year was Milton speaking here? Wondering how much we've changed in public education today.

Forgot radio host Barry Farber also ran for city mayor. Ironic a conservative mayoral candidate would challenge a Milton Friedman or think he had a chance in liberal democrat NYC. At least he was graceful & didn't try to highjack the talk by angry grandstanding & resentful showboating for attention.

Anyone know what year this was recorded in?