Sure you can. Study by yourself, get a GED, and it’s fine.
And I’m simply proving that you don’t need a piece of paper from a high school to get anywhere. If you were feeling somehow intellectually threatened, that’s your problem. Not mine.
Enough, already! I am not a regular blogger at any site, nor do I regularly follow many blogs. I have choosen to follow blogs at mises.org because they are generally insighful. They are unlike blogs found on news websites. Usually, the blog begins with some statement and then a response. Then the first blogger calls the second blogger “dumb.” The second insightfully response, no you are “dumber”. Now with a swell of erudition, the first responds to the second, no you are the “dumbest”. Finally, the second responds to the first no you are the dumberest (if he went to public school) or "dumbest ad infinitum (if he went to private school). If the “debate” continues, it usually becomes and exchange of expletives.
I expect better of visitors and bloggers at this site. I was really interested in this string because as I said earlier I teach from time to time at a community college. I really wanted to read how others have introduced Austrian Economics into a university level class. I switch the “email me with responses button”, then I was flooded with this irrelevant and meaningless exchange about whether this student needs the approval of a college professor at a state school. I would also suggest caution in how you label professors at state colleges. If I am not mistaken, Mises and Rothbard taught at state sponsored universities.
Expletives? I think you’re confusing us with someone else. There are very few expletives used here.
Also, Mises and Rothbard both had private endowments, they didn’t get paid by the tax payer if I recall correctly.
Welcome to Mises.
Btw, this is not a string. That must be old BBS talk. This is a thread. And this is the Community forum, the blogs are elsewhere. Maybe that is why you think there are a lot of expletives used here. There aren’t but there might be in the blog comments.
Slow down, take a breath, and read carefully. I was discussing general news websites which devlolve into an exchange of expletives. Thankfully, I have not found this to be the case at mises.org in either the blogs or forums which is why I follow blogs/forums at mises.org.
Whether Mises or Rothbard has private endowments does not change what I said. I said they taught at state-sponsored universities. Mises taught at the University of Austria which I think it is state sponsored, but you may be right about Mises. Rothbard taught at UNLV a state-sponsored university. Other luminaries of the Austrian School, such as Hans-Hoppe (UNLV), Walter Block (Loyola University, New Orleans), Mark Thorton (University of Utah), and others, I am sure. Even if they do raise and are paid by private-funds or endowments, it does not change what I said. I just cautioned against labeling professors at state-sponsored schools; they may be Austrian, for all we know, e.g., Rothbard.
As to the difference between a blog and forum, and a string and thread, I admit I do not know. I will find the answer elsewhere. Please do not waste time on this site explaining it.