This is a time piece. I just found this podcast and wish that i could subscribe to listen again. The ideas are good to consider.

I couldn't watch for long due to the constant use of the word.....uh. I find it irritating that a professor or any professional speaker would continually do that. It makes him sound incompetent. He needs to be prepared and know his subject in and out. I feel sorry for the students who have to glean important information from this person. I'm very dissapointed and now have a little more idea why our college graduates can't get a job. Someone please send this man to get some training in effective speaking

One would think such highly educated people could teach without the continual added worthless verbiage of: auhhh, ahh, umhhh and ah uhm. It is totally and completely distracting. Every sentence contained at least 3 valueless words. These speakers should try reading their own unedited transcripts. I wish I could have listened to the entire series but the distractions were too great and made the speaker sound amateurish. This is an all-out-war on those scholars and public speakers that think they have a right to abuse their listeners with an unending streaming of: auhhh, ahh, umhhh and ah uhm. I have been teaching for over 20 years and I constantly try to improve my presentations inorder to prevent my students from being abused by such excessive distracting verbiage such as this! TAKE A PUBLIC SPEAKING COURSE!

Watching the first 7 lectures of Schiller's course serves ironically as a lesson in what is wrong with modern academia. Schiller yammers and dodders down assorted tangents, sharing minimally interesting anecdotes and tales -seemingly self-assured that somewhere therein lies educational merit. Do yourself a favor and skip the first lecture outright, which contains possibly four or five useful bullet points which Schiller manages to extrude into a painful, time-intensive meander. More disturbing than Schiller's low ratio of educational value to time spent droning, are of course his particular biases and beliefs about finance - which he presents ex-cathedra, and which deserve (and have received) ample criticism. Along the way, students are handed the works of lightweight pseudo-economists like Jeremy Siegel and other market-friendly shills who excel at spinning data into supporting arguments. The course does have some merit - particularly for those who have no former knowledge or experience. But one must take with a grain of salt, those who emerge from such programs considering themselves to have received sound platform in the subject matter.