39 Dr. Andrew Bernstein: Where In Our Nature the Need For Education Arises And Why It's So Deeply Important

In this episode, Dr. Bernstein discusses an issue that must be addressed before details about education can be addressed: why do we even need education? From where in our nature and in reality does it arise? And why do these questions matter? What is the cash value? What do they affect us each and all in our everyday lives? With clear, concise thinking and some powerful, emotion-packed examples, Dr. Bernstein makes it clear. To support the show and help us grow our audience -- so we have more of an impact on education and the culture -- please help us with a donation or contribution:1. https://www.patreon.com/reasonrxpodcast 2. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SP6QPQKJU4XSS&source=url Also, please consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.And if you find an episode valuable, please share it with parents, teachers, school personnel, friends, and family. Help spread the word, help spread rational ideas for better living. About Dr. Bernstein:Andrew Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has taught Philosophy at the State University of New York at Purchase, Marist College, Hunter College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, and other New York-area universities. He was selected as 'Teacher of the Year' at both SUNY Purchase—and at Marymount College. In 2016-17, he was a Visiting Professor at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), where he taught Business Ethics."He lectures regularly on college campuses, including at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Oxford University (the U.K.), Yale University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, Columbia University, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Northwestern University, and numerous others. Dr. Bernstein's Website: https://www.andrewbernstein.netContact Melanie:1. [email protected]. https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-katragadda-nctm-9b14522aContact Michael:1. [email protected]. http://www.goldams.com 3. https://www.facebook.com/EpistemeRx/4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/ Show notes:1. Peripatetic: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/peripatetic2. Writing and Thinking by Foerester and Steadman: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Thinking-Handbook-Composition-Revision/dp/18894391503. Grammar textsa. Rex Barks by Phyllis Davenport: https://www.amazon.com/Rex-Barks-Diagramming-Sentences-Made/dp/1889439355/b. Drawing Sentences by Eugene Moutoux: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Sentences-Diagramming-Eugene-Moutoux/dp/1935497154/4. Building a Better Vocabulary: https://www.audible.com/pd/Building-a-Better-Vocabulary-Audiobook/B00SJIVE3W5. Jaime Escalantea. Escalante: the Best Teacher in America by Jay Mathews: https://www.amazon.com/Escalante-Best-Teacher-America-Book/dp/0805011951b. Stand and Deliver (movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/6. Marva Collins’ Way by Marva Collins: https://www.amazon.com/Marva-Collins-Way/dp/08747757287. Hooked on Phonics: http://hookedonphonics.com/0/index.html8. The Great Ideas of Philosophy by Daniel Robinson: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Philosophy-2nd/dp/B00DTO51JY"I have occasionally said to classes that if I had to single out any event as evidence of some civilization in a distant galaxy beyond the Milky Way, taking pity on us for the slow progress of the human imagination in dealing with its problems, the evidence might well be the life of Aristotle and his accomplishments. It's almost as if such a distant galactic neighbor might have said 'For goodness sake those human beings don't seem to be getting on with it at all. Aristotle, why don't you go down there and get things going?' " (Lecture 12: Aristotle on the Knowable)9. The Montessori Method by Dr. Maria Montessori: https://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Method-Maria/dp/1438245513/10. Ayn Rand on Educationa. "The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort." (http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/education.html)b. "The academia-jet set coalition is attempting to tame the American character by the deliberate breeding of helplessness and resignation—in those incubators of lethargy known as “Progressive” schools, which are dedicated to the task of crippling a child’s mind by arresting his cognitive development. (See “The Comprachicos” in my book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.) It appears, however, that the “progressive” rich will be the first victims of their own social theories: it is the children of the well-to-do who emerge from expensive nursery schools and colleges as hippies, and destroy the remnants of their paralyzed brains by means of drugs."The middle class has created an antidote which is perhaps the most hopeful movement of recent years: the spontaneous, unorganized, grass-roots revival of the Montessori system of education—a system aimed at the development of a child’s cognitive, i.e., rational, faculty." (http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/education.html)Image courtesy Mark DeCunha.Please consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.Email us at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/Gold Academy: https://goldams.comTotal Human Fitness: https://total-human-fitness.com