Walter E. Williams: Rules to Avoid Poverty

Walter E. Williams, that brilliant and funny economics professor, has a few simple rules to avoid poverty:



* Graduate high school
* Get married before you have children
* If you get married, stay married
* Get a job, any job. A minimum wage job is a stepping stone
* Avoid engaging in criminal behavior

Dr. Williams on Tolerance:

It’s my personal preference that people be able to conduct their lives in any manner they please. Tolerance doesn’t require approval, only non-interference.

Tolerance also doesn’t require recognition of what one might call himself. A man and a man might call themselves married, but I’m not obliged to recognize it as such anymore than my calling myself the King of Siam should require that you recognize me as such.

He also instructs his students, when he spouts an unsubstantiated assertion without first prefacing it with "in my opinion," to raise their hand and remind him that they are paying him to teach them economics, not indoctrinate them.

This is a true teacher.

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