Reinventing Education at Acton Academy with Jeff Sandefer

On episode three of the Emergent Order podcast, John interviews Jeff Sandefer, an oil industry veteran, entrepreneur and educator. Sandefer describes the personal and professional journey that led him to establish the nonprofit Acton Academy school network. In this episode we will also unpack Sandefer’s views on the education system as a whole and why The Acton Academy works, with an emphasis on how Acton embodies bottom-up systems. More from our guest: Acton School of Business Bio Amazon Author Page References from this episode: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley The American Health Care Paradox by Elizabeth H. Bradley & Lauren A. Taylor The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan