Educating for Virtue

Educating for Virtue

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Educating for Virtue episodes

  • 13 - History of Grading 1

    The impact of small habits over time

    school policies and habits

    grading policy and the cultivation of habit

    history of grades

    William Farrish and the beginning of grades in the late 18thC

    Grades as proxies for trust

    21 min
  • 12 - Public School Cultivates Followers, not Leaders

    profile of a leader

    leadership as responsibility and authority

    public school education cultivates closed-mindedness, short-term thinking, an extreme form of agreeableness or niceness, and neuroticism 

    Origins of public education and the industrial revolution

    industrialists' ideals' impact on education

    25 min
  • 11 - Rulers and "Personality"

    Humans are made for dominion 

    Personality as kinds of people

    Rulers, leaders, dominion-takers as a particular "kind" of person

    Big Five Personality

    Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

    General tendencies of these traits in good leaders

    30 min
  • 09 - The Inevitability of Habits

    Habit training is inevitable. The question is not whether we will practice habits, but which habits we will practice.


    There is a danger in assuming that habits are not being practiced as long as we are not intentionally working on them. Habits are strengthening regardless of whether our focus is on them.

    22 min
  • 08 - The Gap in Results and Expectation

    When building habits, our actions are not easy. We expect our actions, which are painful, to produce results. But, those results do not follow the same curve as our expectations. The key is to have habits that are simple enough to limit your expectations for results until you actually begin to see results. 

    22 min
  • 07 - On Training

    principles for training in education

    James Clear's Atomic habits

    https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299


    11 min
  • 06 - Different examples of Virtue

    desire - Do we want what God wants? What Christ wants?

    Desire the kingdom first and foremost
    emotion - Do we respond the way Christ responds?
    Responding with joy, peace, patience, anger, disgust, etc --both positive and negative emotions-- like Christ does
    intellect - Do our thought-patterns reflect Christ's?
    intellectual humility, analysis, contemplation
    Strength - What do our bodies have to do with being the right kind of person?
    strength, speed, posture
    social/friendship/leadership - Do we treat others the ways Christ treats others?
    speaking with volume, eye contact, deference, goodwill

    16 min
  • 05 - Fathers, Train and Instruct your children in the Lord

    Education is for fathers and families, not the state

    training and instructing; teaching what to know and how to do; science and art

    "in the Lord" - love the Lord with all your Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength, and love your neighbor as yourself

    heart - cardia - desire

    soul - psyche - emotion 

    mind - intellect - thoughts

    strength - body - physicality

    neighbor - social - interpersonal, communication, business, etc.

    24 min

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Education is Virtue Formation. It isn't about college readiness or being prepared to work at a cubicle for 40 hours per week until you're able to draw Social Security. It's about living as a man or…