Journey To The Center Of... Education JTTCO Podcast #1

Show Notes with Time Codes

00:00 PSMN Cold Cloth and an Ice Pack by Derek K Miller the JTTCO Official Theme Song
00:30 Introduction and overview of show format.
03:00 Dorothy L Sayer quote from Inaugural Post.
03:50 Bailout Drills in the classroom.
05:00 Function of education in society is to raise kids who pass tests.
05:45 G K Chesterton, Education is the passing on our convictions to the next generation.
07:30 You can't separate religious education from other education. Math is important because God is true.
07:57 Johann Kepler says "Pursuit of science is the pursuit of thinking God's thoughts after Him."
08:30 Math is the descriptive language of the universe.
09:10 You can't separate our education from our religion (even if we're agnostic).
10:30 Traditionally, you received your religious education at the home or in the church.
12:00 A major shift in religion and morality happened in the last 30 to 40 years.
14:10 Is our world view shifting towards a secularism?
16:30 Some of the earliest acts of civil unrest were against federally imposed education.
17:45 Not in favor of using public education for teaching Christianity, but will home-school their child precisely because Brant wants his child to learn in the classically Christian style.
19:09 First break.
19:10 PSMN Pour quoi, pour quoi pas? by Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet

20:00 Brant mentions that we are promoting many of the products that we use to record and edit the show. These links can be seen off to the left of the page. Please consider these products if you like the sound quality.

20:50 PSMN Talk Talk Talk by Cheryl B Engelhardt
21:30 Welcomes the "Internetters" back to the show.
22:05 What is the deal with homeschooling? It seems so far from the mainstream!
22:30 John Taylor Gatto - Against School
22:45 Adaptive function. Getting kids used to hierarchical structure, to make kids more adaptive to being cogs in a week. Home school kids were like Amish kids amazed by A/C
24:45 The role of parents is to protect our children from bad ideas.
24:55 Originally, home-schooling was driven by a complex set of convictions.
25:30 Public schools are finding that you can separate dogma from education.
26:00 Current education is doing nothing more than indoctrinating our kids to do nothing but pass tests.
27:00 Standardized testing, like the balance sheet of education.
27:30 Steven J Dubner, Freakonomics. Wrote an article about fraud being conducted with regard of the standardized tests.
30:00 India is on it's way to becoming a super power.
31:00 Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East.
32:15 What's the role of education?
32:40 We achieve greatness by standing on the shoulders of giants. But how do we do that without critical thinking skills. How can Home Schooling achieve that?
33:30 It's not the role of the state to conduct education.
34:25 Bad parents will exist, no matter what.
35:50 Kids should have access to a world-class education.
36:00 The first thing we should get rid of is compulsory education.
37:00 ACT level test only 50% have passed.
38:55 No one on earth will care more about our child than us (parents).
40:25 What happens to the kids whose parents can't home school?
40:42 Second break.
40:50 PSMN Love Survives by Lovespirals

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43:00 Latin Groove by A.B.E. (Anthems of a Bygone Era)
43:20 Bonus third segment since Steve and Brant continued to discuss the topic. The reason that the state has to govern education is there is no market incentive otherwise.
45:00 If that's true, that why don't we feed them and clothe them by the state.
45:10 Brave New World decanting babies and turning them in to a consumeristic society.
46:00 Parents are no longer being held accountable for the education of their kids.
46:30 The dumbing down of America is leading to highly dependent and decompetencing of society as a whole.
47:20 People who can't change their own oil, have to become dependent on Jiffy Lube.
48:40 Liberal arts education significance.
48:50 Self education is so important, and the cornerstone to being truly successful in society.
52:00 It's very difficult to develop a standardized test to test for critical thinking.
53:30 Classical education is so good at educating children when compared to current contemporary education here in the US.
56:10 Without Critical Thinking Skills, you won't be able to develop as a human being!
57:00 Somehow in the last 30 years we've destroyed all Folkway in America.
59:10 We've achieved a culture of perpetual adolescence.
59:50 John Mark Reynolds says "Specialization is for insects."
1:00:02 C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity says "one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book [Pilgrim's Progress] that has astonished the whole world."
1:01:40 John Taylor Gatto [Mentioned above] says "One of the primary focuses of education is to instruct boredom."
1:02:00 One of the miracles of self-education is that you live a life without bordeom.
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