Educating for Virtue

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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 woman made in God's image, stewarding God's gifts, doing God's work, living in God's world, and worshipping him all along the way.

Jeff Robertson


    • Feb 17, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    14 - Trust and Mobility

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 12:37


    high trust society upward mobility

    13 - History of Grading 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 20:22


    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

    12 - Public School Cultivates Followers, not Leaders

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2022 24:46


    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

    11 - Rulers and "Personality"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2022 29:27


    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

    10 - Humans as Lords

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 17:54


    humans as image bearers multiply, fill, and subdue humans as lords and leaders profile of leaders

    09 - The Inevitability of Habits

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 21:22


    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.

    08 - The Gap in Results and Expectation

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 21:51


    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.

    07 - On Training

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2021 10:08


    principles for training in education James Clear's Atomic habits https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299

    06 - Different examples of Virtue

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2021 15:35


    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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2021 23:41


    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.

    04 - Defining Virtue 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 22:48


    Psychology, personalities, and virtue Growth vs fixed mindset 19th century attempts at godless materialism across various fields Using personality to excuse character flaws

    03 - Defining Virtue

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 21:06


    Virtue - Habits toward the good; habits toward the Ideal Habits are inclinations, biases, and tendencies that are hard to acquire and hard to lose The Ideal man (the virtuous man or "manly" man) seems to do good and right things by second nature Virtue is the mean between two vices Vices of excess and lack Courage is a virtue; cowardice is to lack virtue; rashness is to have courage in excess Virtue and virtuous action and context

    02 - Defining Education 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 13:38


    Virtue Ethics - defining goodness by the ideal Christ as the Ideal The use of the Law as a tutor Virtues are characteristics of the Ideal Man, or "manliness"

    01 - Defining Education 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 16:41


    Education is the Cultivation of the Right Kind of Person Defining the Right Kind of Person Ethics: Goodness defined by laws (deontology), results (consequentialism), and the Ideal (virtue ethics)

    00 - Podcast Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2021 2:01


    In this episode, I introduce the nature and purpose of this podcast.

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