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RE: Teaching Our Children Liberty: The Tuttle Twins and The Law

in #freedom7 years ago

Good for you buddy! The Law changed my life for the better when I read it. Glad to know someone with creativity and talent to reach kids is putting forth their efforts in this direction.

Keep speaking about this because the universe is SPOKEN into existence. The dark ones on the other side NEVER stop talking about their evil crap. So neither should be.

I want to share a funny quick story relating to Bastiat. In 2011, my first job was a PE teacher in a tiny little Catholic school of about 150 kids, mostly lower-income but good-character Mexicans. I filled in for 2 weeks as the 8th grade social studies teacher. The first day I told them their textbook was lying to them and garbage. A couple days later I showed them Bastiat's Broken Window Fallacy. Back then there weren't many good resources on Youtube to explain it, so I did my best with words and drawing on the white board. I'll always remember, after explaining and parrying off the conditioned "But the government helps people..." responses to when one kid, who hadn't said much and was kind of the class clown. His eyes light up, he jolts upward in his chair and blurts out, "MR. MCGILLICUDDY!!! I GET IT! I GET IT!!!!!!!!!!"

Thank you for sharing this, keep going!

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Awesome comment, Michael McAwesome. I have to admit, I haven't read the original "The Law" book by Bastiat. It's certainly on my 'to read' list now, for sure!

Thank you for sharing that story. I can almost imagine the looks on the children's faces when you said their textbook was garbage. Ha! It's true, textbooks almost always have some political bias woven into them.

Bastiat's Broken Window Fallacy

My wife and I searched for this online, since we are not familiar with this. It led to some interesting discussions. I get it, Mr McGillicuddy!

@ironshield

Wonderful comment as well @ironshield. Let's keep in touch

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