high trust society

upward mobility

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

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

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

humans as image bearers

profile of leaders

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

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. 

principles for training in education

James Clear's Atomic habits

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

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.