When the Ideas of Thinkers and Great Statesmen Are Perverted

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When the Ideas of Thinkers and Great Statesmen Are Perverted
By John Tamny
April 10, 2018

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/ar..._and_dead_statesmen_are_perverted_103217.html

When John Maynard Keynes visited Washington, D.C. in 1944, and met with professed Keynesians, he remarked that “I was the only non-Keynesian in the room.” Having read and fully agreed with Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Keynes was plainly surprised by the perversion of his ideas by his ambitious disciples. Keynes was no longer a Keynesian.
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Kids should get a special class on this topic in civics.

I always felt fortunate that in my school we had a lot of effort put in by several teachers on this general topic. Only as an adult did I appreciate how important it is for kids to question the labels put on by people trying to trick.
 
Certain Kings/statesmen earned the title of " GREAT " in the past.
Alexander the Great
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
etc.
Most of them cost a lot of lives. So not so applicable to today's kids.
 
Who do you ask your kids to appreciate and copy ?
A footballer ?
Scientist ?
etc.
Or a blood thirsty tyrant.
 
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