Starting May 19, Dr. Laurie Johnson will host a four-week series on Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, relevant to moral philosophy and Christian theology. Participants will explore Aristotle’s concepts, their application in modern life, and address potential biases. Registration provides access to live and recorded sessions on Eventbrite and Patreon. … More Explore Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics: A Four-Week Course
This video deals with Chapters 6 and 7 in Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism. While Lasch is critical both of how Americans teach their youth and how they parent, he doesn’t place all the blame on schools, teachers and parents. Rather, it’s the overly specialized bureaucratic capitalist system that necessitates a particular kind of education, the kind that puts out docile worker bees, and an absentee and guilt-ridden parenting that gives authority over to the child raising expert apparatus of the state and the economy. Everyone involved gets paid, if badly, but no one does a particularly good job. … More Need a Nanny? Lasch on Narcissistic Education and Parenting (5-Audio)
This video deals with Chapters 6 and 7 in Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism. While Lasch is critical both of how Americans teach their youth and how they parent, he doesn’t place all the blame on schools, teachers and parents. Rather, it’s the overly specialized bureaucratic capitalist system that necessitates a particular kind of education, the kind that puts out docile worker bees, and an absentee and guilt-ridden parenting that gives authority over to the child raising expert apparatus of the state and the economy. Everyone involved gets paid, if badly, but no one does a particularly good job. … More Need a Nanny? Christopher Lasch on Narcissistic Education and Parenting (5-Video)
As a father of several children he more or less abandoned, Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not follow his advice, but perhaps his work Emile describes his ideal and not his reality. Rousseau begins to describe the education of a pre-teen and teenage Emile, he opines on why a boy should learn a manly practical trade like carpentry, how to teach him compassion, and how to deal with the strong urge to mate too early. … More Rousseau: A Young Man Should Learn a Trade
A brief discussion of classical liberal theorist John Locke’s views on early childhood and youth upbringing and education, including some odd ideas like bathing kids in cold water and not feeding them regularly. … More John Locke on Parenting: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
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