From: A
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 4:08 AM
To: Walter Block
Subject:
I am 37 years old and live in XXX. I work as an MRO coordinator at a XXX factory. I’ve had virtually no schooling since high school. What I have done is read a lot of Mises, Rothbard, and other Austrians such as yourself. I find economics fascinating and would like to teach others. How can I best do so? Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. And thank you for all you’ve done for the Liberty movement!
From: Walter Block <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 11:36 AM
To: A
Subject:
Dear A:
How badly do you want to “teach others?” If you want to do so, at the college level, you need at least a masters degree (to teach at a community college) and a phd to teach at a 4 year college or university. To do that you first need a bachelors degree.
Here are 8 reasons not to do the latter: https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/dont-want-to-go-to-college/
But, if your desire to “teach others” can overcome those reasons, all of them, this is unfortunately an accurate assessment of universities, I invite you to come enroll at Loyola U and come study with me and my free enterprise colleagues. Yes, we have leftie hippie Marxist feminist professors too, plenty of them, but, we also have a few profs who support freedom. You’re now 37 years old. A bachelors degree takes 4 years, a masters 1-2 years, a phd 4-6 years. How badly do you want to “teach others” at the bachelors or grad level? You could also “teach others” at the high school level, which would only take 4 years for an undergrad degree.
On the other hand, there are informal ways to “teach others”: you can write letters to the editor, blog, submit op eds to newspapers and magazines, etc.
Best regards,
Walter
4:13 pm on September 10, 2019
