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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"What is kind of the value would you say of reading things like the great books to people of any age? Yeah, it's a great question. I'd recommend it if you want to go kind of a more formal route, great colleges like hillsdale offer a bunch of free classes that you can take. In order to be doing this with, it can be intimidating and you pick up by yourself, a copy of the Odyssey. Hopefully you can read it and enjoy it, but it can also mean falling away. I think the great books this tradition is meant to give birth to the great community. CLT is right down the street from St. John's college in Annapolis. It's a great book solid if you're interested in a great gradual program. It's amazing for teachers. But what you're doing is you're reading together the very best of what has been thought and said, you're reading Plato, you're reading Arizona. You're reading Ben Franklin. You're reading the texts that have truly stood the test of time. And you're discussing them in groups of people who span the political spectrum who are atheists who are the who are Catholics, who are Muslim, and learning to talk about the things that really matter most with different groups of people. So a couple of quick recommendations if I could. That are not classics, but I think to understand kind of what has happened, the book I would recommend first and foremost would be Allen's bloom, the closing of the American mind, which is now almost 40 years old as 1986. But Alan bloom is a professor at the University of Chicago. And during his 40 years from the late 40s until the 80s, he witnessed this seismic change in the kind of students that were arriving to campus. And in the course of a few hundred pages, he impacts kind of what was happening, a new book is also out called the battle for the American mind. David Goodwin, Pete hegseth. It's a great book. And it talks about how really intentional and really kind of radical, not just Democrats, but radical fringe progressives were able to grab hold of things like accreditation, things like teacher certification and really have come to dominate a lot of the Ed schools in the United States,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
What Is the Value in Reading the 'Great Books'? Jeremy Tate Explains
"What is kind of the value would you say of reading things like the great books to people of any age? Yeah, it's a great question. I'd recommend it if you want to go kind of a more formal route, great colleges like hillsdale offer a bunch of free classes that you can take. In order to be doing this with, it can be intimidating and you pick up by yourself, a copy of the Odyssey. Hopefully you can read it and enjoy it, but it can also mean falling away. I think the great books this tradition is meant to give birth to the great community. CLT is right down the street from St. John's college in Annapolis. It's a great book solid if you're interested in a great gradual program. It's amazing for teachers. But what you're doing is you're reading together the very best of what has been thought and said, you're reading Plato, you're reading Arizona. You're reading Ben Franklin. You're reading the texts that have truly stood the test of time. And you're discussing them in groups of people who span the political spectrum who are atheists who are the who are Catholics, who are Muslim, and learning to talk about the things that really matter most with different groups of people. So a couple of quick recommendations if I could. That are not classics, but I think to understand kind of what has happened, the book I would recommend first and foremost would be Allen's bloom, the closing of the American mind, which is now almost 40 years old as 1986. But Alan bloom is a professor at the University of Chicago. And during his 40 years from the late 40s until the 80s, he witnessed this seismic change in the kind of students that were arriving to campus. And in the course of a few hundred pages, he impacts kind of what was happening, a new book is also out called the battle for the American mind. David Goodwin, Pete hegseth. It's a great book. And it talks about how really intentional and really kind of radical, not just Democrats, but radical fringe progressives were able to grab hold of things like accreditation, things like teacher certification and really have come to dominate a lot of the Ed schools in the United States,
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"So order now with promo code Eric at my pillow dot com or call 809 7 8 three O 5 7 809 7 8 three O 5 7. Folks, welcome back. We're talking to the authors of battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation, Pete hegseth and David Goodwin. So we're talking about what amounts to a conspiracy to subvert the western judeo Christian tradition baked into the heart of the United States of America. And there's no denying it. People like Dewey, they were on a crusade and they have up till now succeeded. Yes, they have. And you know what? They didn't know what the destination would be, per se. They just knew where the destination was away from. So it was always progress away from the western Christian paideia, the biblical roots of our and free thinking roots of the nexus of Athens in Jerusalem. They wanted to move away from that. That was progress. So you say conspiracy, that's not a wrong term. We use plot or heist because they passed it off to the next group of radical thinkers who carried the ball down the field based on how much God and other basic values have been stripped away. So enter the Frankfurt school enter critical theory, which where did it land? A hundred blocks from here at Columbia University at the teacher's college. And these are marxists who fled Hitler while our boys are fighting over in Europe and World War II. And they are greeted with open arms with their radical views soon to infuse into the teacher's college. And within a couple of decades, one third of teachers in America at elite schools had been taught by the critical theorists of the Frankfurt school. So how do you get critical race theory in your zoom classroom? It is in the curriculum and the pedagogy of how the entire educational industrial complex works. And when you unravel it all, it goes back to those early efforts and each step at which we lay out the unions, which used to be conservative teacher associations that ended up scripture to teachers to use in the classroom, captured by the unions. Well, then the unions create the Department of Education in a giveaway to Jimmy Carter. And at each step, as you said, conservatives and patriots, we were busy winning world wars and fighting enemies and trying to keep the free market and the classroom and the social change side we let the left. But that's always the case, right? You get and this is why conservatives who only are all about the free market. I want to say you're idiots because you won't have a free market if you don't address this other stuff. Like if you make a God of the free market, you might as well worship the devil now because it's all going to go away. And they did take their Christians and conservatives took their eyes off of these various balls. And over the decades, I mean, it's fascinating to me because when we talk about people like Dewey, these are crusaders, and we can demonize them, but we can also give them credit in the sense that they actually believed in this stuff. And they were doing what they thought was right. But they were wise about it. And they took their time, and over time, as you're saying, these ideas that are fundamentally un American. Fundamentally unbiblical. All of these ideas slowly made their way in so that now we live in a world where we say, well, how did this happen? Like it happened overnight. We're teaching critical race theory and we're teaching transgender madness and whatever. How did this happen? Well, it didn't happen overnight. Not even close. Not even close. And that's why we're here to first break down the common assumption that it was the 60s. I came into this project with that. David, when he first researched, did, when you realize it's a lot longer project than that, we are prayer for this book is that it is what it does is the first step to recovery is identifying the depth of your problem. And so we've got parents so courageously protesting at school boards. And that's great. But that's like charging a fortified machine gun nest with nerf guns. Wow. We salute your efforts, but we're going to bury you all. And my mom did the same thing in the 80s and 90s at my public elementary school. She protested a new values free curriculum. I don't even know what it is, but it's the precursor to common core in the previous social learning. I didn't have it, and some parents stood up. She pulled me out, but guess what happened? Four psych elementary school kept teaching it. Nothing changed. Nothing changed. So we advocate for in the book a retreat and an insurgency of Christians to say we need our own schools. Uncover this hidden form of education classical Christian so that we can take back the culture because hoping we're going to change your school board, it's polishing the brass and the Titanic. Wow. Well, I mean, I think we need to do everything, but I think that there are people, the numbers of people pulling their kids out of public schools or even let's face it. There are a lot of quote unquote Christian schools or quote unquote Catholic schools that are themselves half woke or half blind to this. There's certainly not on the good side. But I think parents are waking up. I think the home school numbers are exploding around the country. People are saying like, there's no way I could do a worse job than they're doing to my kids, at least I won't teach my kids Marxism..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That's the key. And let's be honest. Okay, we're talking about freedom, right? And so if you're teaching somebody to think for themselves, it means you have an innate assumption that you can trust people to find this thing called truth. If they're honest. But if you don't believe that, then you have to do propaganda. Or you're exactly right about that, or you make an excuse, which is what we're entering an industrialized economy now. Not everyone needs those skills. So we'll have an elite few who think about things like philosophy, but the rest of you really just need to learn a hard skill. And we see that still today and the idea of stem education. Stems fine. But that becomes the focus. It's one step away from metal shop, okay? No, but I mean, that's kind of how I see it. It's like you can learn to think, or you can get a trade. And if the trade is science, it's like a more of a highfalutin trade, but it's still, you need to be taught how to think. Everyone does. Correct. So it's a wise welder, as opposed to what woke welder, which we have now. I mean, everyone deserves the ability to think critically. And as David points out, that was a no more useful thing for a farmer or a blacksmith. In the founding generation that it is today for someone else. But if freedom of a republic is what's at stake and the ability to think through the propaganda, they want more people educated that way as opposed to liberated. I'm just so glad you wrote this book, battle for the American mind. Do you so where do you start in the book at what is it? Well, we start with the problem identification. I mean, we start with the COVID 16, 19 moment. So here we are in zoom classrooms and you're watching what your kids are learning and suddenly the 1619 Project and CRT and gender obfuscation is right there in front of you. How did this happen? And meet people where they're at and then start to walk backwards of well, here's precisely how it happened. Okay, and again, we've got to remind people what a blessing, the nightmare of COVID turned out to be because if it hadn't been for that nightmare and the overreach of the radical left, most parents would never have known. Decades pass and you don't know. Suddenly, millions of parents woke up and said, wow, wait a minute. Hold on. All right, we'll be right back. Talking to the authors of battle for the American mind Pete hegseth and David Goodwin. I rehearse those words just made last night. When I was thinking hey there folks, Eric taxes here. As you know, our friend and he's a real friend, Mike lindell has a passion to help everyone get the best sleep of their life, but he didn't stop by simply creating the best pillow now Mike has done it again by introducing his my slippers, my slippers, they're unbelievable. I know all about them, but I got to tell you for a limited time you will save $90 on each pair of my slippers. They're expensive. You can save $90. This blowout sale of the year won't last order. Now he's taken over two years to develop them. The mice slippers are designed to wear indoors and out all day long made with my pillow foam and impact gel to help prevent fatigue made with quality leather swayed call one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 use the promo code Eric. Or go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio listeners square and use promo code Eric, the offer will not last long,.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Battle for the American Mind' With Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin
"Hey folks final segment talking with Pete hegseth and David Goodwin battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation. So Pete the headline here is that you're not just an empty talking head on Fox and Friends. It's not like they say he's smart. He could do things. It gives me such joy to know that you not only get this stuff but that you've joined with David and written a book about it and that you're using your platform to get the word out to the American people about what is happening. I think part of this has been as a father, a journey of discovery myself as a parent. And that's how we've treated this book and how we treated the film series at Fox nation as well. David, I call him my Sherpa, you know? He's leading me through and I'm discovering in real time very much like most of our viewers are right now. Oh my goodness. I knew there were some problems. I didn't realize it was this big. And hopefully, because I've only more recently made some of the choices to get my kids intentionally into some of these schools. So all of us are behind the curve. And I feel this ticking clock in my mind of every moment they're not in that education. I'm not doing what I should be doing for them. Yes, I need to be doing it in the home. Yes, I need to be doing it in church, but to not have the third part of that of the classroom reinforcing the things that I believe. I'm just losing time. And so I would urge the same thing to parents, do the research, take a look, it's not enough to feel like your principles are nice guy or you've got two members of the school board. That's wonderful. We should fight those places. I don't think we should give up any space. But right now we're in a knife fight. We're in the kill zone. And they've got to surround it and you've got to act when you're in that spot.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Com. Hey, welcome back folks. We're talking about American education, battle for the American mind is the book uprooting a century of miseducation, David Goodwin has written it with Pete hegseth in that David. You're the head of the association of classical Christian schools. So you're like a brainy guy. Pete is just like a talking hit on Fox and Friends. We know he has nothing to say if it's not on a teleprompter. Pete, how did you get involved in this? I've always learned to join forces with people smarter than me. That's the key. Andy's humble, which makes me hate him even more. You went to Princeton, you went to the Harvard Kennedy school of government. What did you major in at Princeton? Politics. You did. I did. Political philosophy. As sort of a degree of that. But I'll tell you what I've learned in this project, how much I didn't learn. I didn't learn any of this stuff. My kids are in classical Christian schools, and all I say every day is, why can't I go back to school and learn these things? Okay, you're singing my song. I have said this over and over in the last couple of decades. I learned something. I wrote a book called if you can keep it Franklin's famous line. And because of Oz Guinness, whose book I had read, I understood things, and all I could think of is how did I not get this? I didn't get any of this. So you obviously going through this elite schools, which like Yale. I mean, they don't teach you this stuff. Not they teach you John Dewey on steroids, I guess. And they teach you now the latest manifestations of the Frankfurt school and critical theory, which is now we now see as critical race theory and we talk about every day. But it was just the water in which we swam. I took social studies. We all took social studies who invented social studies. Yeah, why is it not history? Why is it social studies? We can't get into that. We can't get into that, don't talk about it. I didn't know where that all came from. David had done the research, and then I was able to lay it upon the environment in which we live right now and realize we all got a progressive education. Yeah. Almost everyone watching guaranteed. Right. Got a progressive education that was started by atheist advanced by marxists who had their own agenda and it all happened subtly, and a lot of us think we aren't infected, but we are. And so you have to dig under the ruins of what used to exist. And that's what David did in this project. This is the way education our founders were educated, how free people and republics actually perpetuate themselves. Why don't we do that? As opposed to what we're doing now. I have to say to people need to understand that if you don't get this stuff, if you don't really understand this, you really can't combat it because you don't know. This is why I think so many people are cowards. I mean, so many Republicans are cowards. They don't really understand it. And they're kind of afraid of being questioned. So they just go like, well, what do I need to say so that you don't come after me? I'll just say whatever you want me to say. Because they don't really understand what is happening. And so what you're talking about when you talk about John Dewey signing the atheist humanist manifesto, we need to understand there's a worldview, it is an atheistic worldview. It is at war with the biblical worldview. And we couldn't have America without the biblical world. You don't need to be a Christian to be an American, but you need to understand historically speaking, you do not get American style self government without the Israel covenant of the Old Testament or whatever. It's just not you can talk all day you want about the Iroquois system and people kind of throw this stuff out there. But it's historical fact, isn't it? I mean, you can't really argue with it, but you can ignore it. Well, you know, in the book we talk about the liberal arts and how they were originally developed by the Greeks to enable a republic or a democracy. And we, in this day and age, we think it's just a natural thing. One of the things Pete talks about in the book is his time, pizza, a veteran, and he talks about his time in Afghanistan and the differences that you see in the paideia of the different parts of the world. And we're taking for granted this critical thing that's liberal art tradition. Where people can are trained to think for themselves. That's the key independently minded..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Amazing. But what was the animus of folks like do we against God in the west? Where did that come from that they were dedicated to getting rid of western values and principles? Well, Dewey was a primary signer on the humanist manifesto as you probably know. And that sounds like an okay thing, right? Humanist manifesto. But what it really was was an atheist manifesto. Of course. It was a man is going to become the new God. And that is what they were set out to do. That was the mission that they set out for. And as Pete pointed out, they had to take it through the path of, well, let's make America the God for a while. And then Pete picks up in the book and the destination that they ultimately ended at was the cultural Marxist paida. Yeah, they moved from a progressive once they had opened the vacuum by removing God. And they were atheists. They were effectively atheist, and there was a belief that man was perfectible. And the human condition through. Where did that idea come from? Ye shall be as gods. Who said that again? Ask a wild or no Satan, sorry, with Satan. It's kind of amazing how you have reality, and then you have anything else. In other words, no matter how you go away from God's reality, it always ends up being the same lies over and over in different guises. But how fascinating that the idea of the perfectibility of man is utopian impulse, you see it in the Tower of Babel. You see it in the French Revolution. You see it now. It's over and over and over again. And one of the reasons I was excited to talk to you guys is to educate people that there's nothing new. There's God's reality and truth, and then there's however you try to get away from it. It always ends up being the same thing ultimately. So we've got plenty of time to discuss this folks. The book is battle for the American mind Pete hegseth and David Goodwin will be right back. In case you haven't been paying attention, the Biden administration has caused a financial crisis and they have no clue how to fix it. Oil prices have skyrocketed and when oil prices go up, the cost of transportation and shipping spikes leading the prices of goods to rise. And when we're already seeing record inflation, that's the last thing we need. Our economy is in trouble and you need to take steps to protect yourself. If all your money is tied up in stocks, bonds and traditional markets, you are vulnerable. Gold is one of the best ways to protect your retirement, no matter what happens, you own your gold. It is real, it is physical, it's always been valuable since the dawn of time, legacy precious metals is the company I trust for investing in gold. They can help you roll your retirement account into a gold backed IRA where you still own the physical gold. They can also ship gold and precious metals safely and securely to your house called legacy at 8 6 6 5 two 8 1903 or visit them online at legacy p.m. investments dot.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, I am really excited right now because we're talking about something in this hour and I hope in the next hour as well that's at the heart of my concerns for the nation for the culture for the world. Something called education. I have in front of me, a brand new book called battle for the American mind, uprooting a century of miseducation, the authors are in the studio Pete hegseth and David Goodwin welcome. Thank you, Eric. Now, I know both of you sort of because but from different worlds, you're mister Fox and Friends on the weekends, or my confusing you with another Pete hegseth. No, you're right. You're right. And we met in multiple iterations. Here and there. But the problem is when you see somebody on TV, you don't remember, did I actually meet them? Or did I just see them on YouTube or something like that? But David Goodwin, you are the head of the association of classical Christian schools. Yes. Devotee and fan of classical Christian education and of homeschooling and I am thrilled to see you again. And thank you for writing a book because we need to talk about this. So where do we start? First of all, I think most people want to know, hey, how did Pete hegseth meet David Goodwin? How did you come to write a book together? Well, I met David Goodwin. You mentioned Fox and Friends. It happenstance to that. I was at a diner in rural North Carolina. Talking about the news of the day as we do on the morning show. And a family approached me two cute little girls in uniforms and a woman pulled me aside and said, you know, what do you know about classical Christian education? Because we were talking about it. And we got to talk in and she said, you got to meet this guy, David Goodwin, and she put us in touch. And I had kids that had been in classical questions so I was familiar with it, but I didn't understand the larger movement. And we just got to know each other and he shared some early manuscripts that he was working on of research that he had done. And I kept reading it and saying, this is amazing. Everybody's got to know this. This is the key right here. And over months and then years, we kind of joined forces and swap notes, and then we decided to embark on a Fox nation film called miseducation of America, which is where, and then this book also came out of that project as well. So it is a genuine partnership of two people coming at the same issue with passion and David's David is the expert. He's the man. Well, I think as things unravel at the speed of light, people are waking up. And, you know, there's a famous scripture Romans 8 28. You don't have to believe in the Bible. Just pretend Ben Franklin said it. It says all things work together for good for those that love the lord and are called according to his purposes. In other words, even when things are in a nightmare where you have cultural Marxism being shoved down our throats and all that, the good news for us in America is that it's waking people up who otherwise would have remained asleep. They're thinking, wait, wait, what? You're teaching my kids what I had no idea. Because, you know, in 1975, when I was in fourth grade, it was not, so this is good. And then of course, people want to know, all right, now what do we do? Now where do we send our kids? We know we're not setting them to those schools unless we get on the board and fix that. So, but I do love the idea that in this book, you tell us how we got here. So let's start, I mean, do we go to John Dewey? Do we go before John Dewey? How did we get to a point? Let me just say this. In America, we're free. So we say, we're going to educate our kids. We're going to have a one room schoolhouse. I've got to plow the fields. My wife's got stuff to do. So we're going to hire a school teacher and we're going to get them to teach the kids in the neighborhood. And they're going to teach exactly what we want them to teach obviously. They're the experts, but we're not going to let them teach things that we think are wrong. And that's how we got public education quote unquote. When did that go.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Hegseth & Goodwin on the Battle for American Education
"Back folks, we're talking about education, American education. Remember that? It's the book is the battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation, Pete hegseth and David Goodwin, the authors. Again, the good news is we're waking up to this. The good news is there are solutions that are still possible. But we are in a battle. I mean, the teachers unions, for example, we now know, are just leftists. They are just marxists. They don't even believe that we should have a say in what our kids learn. I mean, it's kind of like we skipped backwards to Mao's cultural revolution, and we're suddenly in China in 1965. And the parents are being demonized by their own children. I mean, it's like, you just didn't think this could happen in America. Not only did they not think parents should know, they think parents are the rubes over here who are poisoning their kids with yesterday's dogma and it's the job of the school to give the correct education to hide the gender transition that's going on at school from the very parent. This is a war. We chose that intentional. I mean, I guess I have a military background. It is a war for the future of our country of ideas of our faith of the things our country was founded on. And if we don't, but education has just been this secondary issue for too many people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"With us right now is a great American patriot can't wait to dive deep into his book and why he wrote it and how we can fix these problems. It is Pete hegseth and he is the author of the fabulous book, battle for the American mind, uprooting a century of miseducation, Pete, welcome back to the program. Hey, Charlie, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So tell us why did you write the book and we'll go from there? Well, I wrote the book for the same reason you've done what you've done for the last ten years of turning point. We are at a moment in this country where we are in completely unchartered territory. Our schools across the board, government schools, not just public, which should be known as government schools, but also elite schools, private schools, most Christian schools are teaching students to be self loathing activists who know nothing about God and who believe America is a evil place stolen land and only built on the backs of slaves. And as a result, it is an experiment that's never been tried. Keeping a country while educating its citizens to hate the very country, they live in and not believe that it represents anything good. If you look at the scope of the problem right now, it's utterly demoralizing. If you really, really take a look because COVID-19, as you know, gave us a glimpse inside the classroom. We call it inside the book the COVID 1619 moment. It was the moment parents finally got a look. And what they saw was not 1776. They saw 1619 and they saw gender pronouns and they saw critical race theory dressed up as diversity equity inclusion. And they were mortified because the assumption their biases were toward the belief that the public schools, they're just fine. Maybe there's some bias in there, but they're just fine. And they looked for alternatives. And Hemingway once wrote, things happen gradually, and then they happen suddenly. And what we're seeing is the sudden consolidation, and that's what parents
77WABC Radio
"david goodwin" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Mark honestly it had been on my own mind and on my heart for years As someone who read what you've written across from americanism to American Marxism understanding the depth of what the left had done in our culture and our politics I still had this itching sense that like you did with American Marxism it's all deeper and specifically in the education system Some reason I've always been interested in that And it was actually the beginning of 2020 before COVID that I was introduced through a wonderful family in North Carolina during a Fox and Friends segment to David Goodwin who runs the association of classical Christian schools He was doing research about the roots of the progressive takeover Why and how they did it over a hundred years ago And I was fascinated by it And I was asking questions and we were going back and forth and he didn't he didn't know as much about the modern manifestation and it just became clear between the two of us We should work together We didn't know each other at all But two Christians patriots passionate about education He's made it his life work for two decades I've been wanting to write a book on education for 5 years well before this all started And it just became clear let's work together And we did And I started from the 1870s and I started from what we're seeing now and we put our research together basically met in the middle in the 1950s and 60s and the picture became clear This was a plot not necessarily that they knew exactly where it was going But each successive generation and we can get into the details on that was intentional about getting control of our youngest of minds Books have been written the closing of the American mind the coddling of the American mind about higher education and we said now it's time to write a book about K
Mark Levin
Pete Hegseth Explains Why He Wrote 'Battle for the American Mind'
"Mark honestly it had been on my own mind and on my heart for years As someone who read what you've written across from americanism to American Marxism understanding the depth of what the left had done in our culture and our politics I still had this itching sense that like you did with American Marxism it's all deeper and specifically in the education system Some reason I've always been interested in that And it was actually the beginning of 2020 before COVID that I was introduced through a wonderful family in North Carolina during a Fox and Friends segment to David Goodwin who runs the association of classical Christian schools He was doing research about the roots of the progressive takeover Why and how they did it over a hundred years ago And I was fascinated by it And I was asking questions and we were going back and forth and he didn't he didn't know as much about the modern manifestation and it just became clear between the two of us We should work together We didn't know each other at all But two Christians patriots passionate about education He's made it his life work for two decades I've been wanting to write a book on education for 5 years well before this all started And it just became clear let's work together And we did And I started from the 1870s and I started from what we're seeing now and we put our research together basically met in the middle in the 1950s and 60s and the picture became clear This was a plot not necessarily that they knew exactly where it was going But each successive generation and we can get into the details on that was intentional about getting control of our youngest of minds Books have been written the closing of the American mind the coddling of the American mind about higher education and we said now it's time to write a book about K
The Eric Metaxas Show
"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Let's talk a minute about Marxism, right? Because I think I was always raised. It was an economic thing, right? It's like the haves, the have nots, but now we realize that it's a philosophy that basically divides people one way or the other. However, we can divide people and create resentment. And so now it's cultural Marxism. Now it says if I'm transgender or I'm lesbian or I'm a woman or I'm a whatever group I can identify with that can say we're oppressed and we're against our oppressors. So the names and categories have been changed, but it's the same context and it was brought in by the Frankfurt school. You mentioned gramsci, marcuse. These people in the 40s, whenever that was, they brought Marxist philosophy, which is atheist philosophy. It's not neutral. It's seriously atheist philosophy. They brought it in to the university's. And William F. Buckley, when he was at Yale in the late 40s, he saw this. Now, imagine in the late 40s, he writes a book called God and man at Yale, uncovering all this stuff. That was the late 40s. So by the time I was there in the 80s, political correctness had already swamped the campus or whatever. Now, of course, it's pure madness. But it's amazing to me that we're not teaching the evils of cultural Marxism. Most people don't know what the Frankfurt school is. And most people don't even know how to react because they don't know, they still don't know what's happening. One of the things that Pete and I were both surprised at is that, you know, I did my colonel of research in the early part of this and of course I know classical Christian education. Pete did most of the work in the 20th century. And the puzzle pieces fit together like they were hand in glove to the mixed metaphors of it. But it was unbelievable. Dewey's at Columbia until about 1930, the Frankfurt school shows up in about 34, 35, you see this develop, you see the cultural revolution, talk about cultural Marxism in Maoist China in the late 1960s where he realizes that you can not make economic Marxism work without cultural revolution. And it just the whole thing flows together. And I think what the book does is provide a sweeping narrative of the 20th century to show us how we got where we are and then, of course, it prescribes a solution. We try to simplify it. You know, it goes from western Christian paideia to the American progressive paideia, which lasts all the way up to basically 9 11. So think of the collective response we were able to have at 9 11, even with a progressive paid dance. Yes. Now we're about to have a culturally Marxist. Yes. What in the world could we respond to? We're internally an extra. We're going to go to another break. We've got plenty more don't go away. You run out your dancing and you never see a show. Folks, before we continue the conversation today, in our two, we've got way more with Pete hegseth and David Goodwin and then we're going to be talking from Zürich Switzerland. He is the head of CSI international talking about what is happening in Ukraine with refugees. I just love to talk to people who are directly involved. It's a profoundly Christian organization. Yeah, and you can go to metaxas talk dot com right now and you can donate on taxes. There's a lot of stuff you ought to do. I hate to put it on you, man. Yeah. Hey man, but go to metaxas talk dot com and you'll see the banner. I also want to say I have a piece at the stream. I've been getting emails from a lot of people because I read something in Christianity today some weeks ago that so shocked me. It's no different. I'm writing about this in my next book letter to the American church. How the comparison of where many in the church are in America today to where many were in the churchyard in Germany in the 30s, it is horrifying the parallels are astonishing and in this article in Christianity today, Russell Moore essentially does what the German pastors did in the 30s. Before they had any clue where it was leading, but they're sort of demonizing a certain group or certain groups. They're the problem and we all know they're the problem. And the parallel is chilling. So I write about it in my upcoming book, but I write about it. You can read about it at stream dot org. It's an article that I wrote rebutting what Russell Moore wrote in the pages of Christianity today. I still can't believe he wrote it. I can't believe they published it. What I wrote about it, as I said, a lot of people are emailing me and thanking me for writing it. But I could not not write it. It was just, I said, I have to respond. A couple of other quick bits of business do not forget. Socrates in the city, May 31st, if you know anybody who can get to New York City on May 31st, Tuesday night, union league club, we haven't done this in a long time. The man who walked on the moon 50 years ago is going to be sharing his faith. He's going to be sharing his story. I have to tell you, I am almost frightened at the level of excitement that I'm bringing to this. May 31st, go to Socrates in the city dot com and also we want to welcome to Salem. Yes, officer Tatum. You've heard of the famous officer Tatum. We salute the elder is moving over to epic times and so his spot at Salem was open and we got office of Tatum unbelievable. Yes. He was on the plane with me going to Mar-a-Lago. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I flew in those circles last week. And it was just kind of so cool to see him and his wife and kid. So for joining the faculty. That's right. So welcome. Welcome to officer Tatum. And speaking of Salem, we want to say, if you go to Salem now dot com, there's a number of films there. You know, if you're looking for something decent to watch, it ain't easy. And so we try to help you by saying go to Salem now dot com. 2000 mules is there, as you know, I'm in it. And I am very excited about America knowing what happened. It's going to change. You're going to see history. I'm going to be really blunt. You're going to see history this year because it's taken a long time, but this information is getting out. What Pete hegseth and David Goodwin write about with education. It's getting out. What happened in the election is getting out. The Hunter Biden laptop and the tremendous corruption of Joe Biden and a lot of these three star agencies in America, the deep state. It is horrifying, but we're facing it. We're uncovering it. It's getting out. So I want to encourage you to get the word out about 2000. Can I just do a quick congratulations to my parents who have been married 76 years? Of course they both passed away. Many years ago, but they were loving and wonderful parents so too. Albina and Anthony sadar, congratulations on 76 years of marriage. That is, you know what? That is so beautiful. Thank you, lord, for these men and women who stay together through the years. Your parents, their children, for my folks. Oh my goodness. All right, we'll be right back..
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The Plot to Subvert the Western Judeo-Christian Tradition of the US
"Folks, welcome back. We're talking to the authors of battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation, Pete hegseth and David Goodwin. So we're talking about what amounts to a conspiracy to subvert the western judeo Christian tradition baked into the heart of the United States of America. And there's no denying it. People like Dewey, they were on a crusade, and they have up till now, succeeded. Yes, they have. And you know what? They didn't know what the destination would be, per se. They just knew where the destination was away from. So it was always progress away from the western Christian paideia, the biblical roots of our and free thinking roots of the nexus of Athens and Jerusalem. They wanted to move away from that. That was progress. So you say conspiracy, that's not a wrong term. We use plot or heist because they passed it off to the next group of radical thinkers who carried the ball down the field based on how much God and other basic values have been stripped away. So enter the Frankfurt school, enter critical theory, which where did it land? A hundred blocks from here at Columbia University at the teacher's college. And these are marxists who fled Hitler while our boys are fighting over in Europe and World War II. And they are greeted with open arms with their radical views soon to infuse into the teacher's college. And within a couple of decades, one third of teachers in America at elite schools had been taught by the critical theorists of the Frankfurt school. So how do you get critical race theory in your zoom classroom? It is in the curriculum and the pedagogy of how the entire educational industrial complex works. And when you unravel it all, it goes back to those early efforts and each step which we lay out the unions, which used to be conservative teacher associations that ended up scripture to teachers to use in the classroom, captured by the unions. Well, then the unions create the Department of Education in a giveaway to Jimmy
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We'll be right back. Talking to the authors of battle for the American mind Pete hegseth and David Goodwin. I rehearse those words just made last night. When I was thinking of hey there folks Eric metaxas here. I know you know how much I love Mike lindell and my pillow well. Mike lindell and my pillow right now are offering a bogo extravaganza bogo buy one get one. Bogo extravaganza on multiple MyPillow products. Now is the time to join the millions of Americans who've changed the quality of their sleep with my pillow. Right now you get the buy one, get one free special, my pillow, bed sheets, Giza, elegance, my pillows, the 6 piece towel sets and the role and go anywhere my pillows just go to the radio listener specials page at my pillow dot com, use the promo code Eric. That's the radio listener specials page at MyPillow dot com. Use the code Eric or call one 809 7 8 three O 5 7 one 809 7 8 zero 5 7 don't miss this incredible opportunity to buy one, get one free on select product. You'll also receive Mike's book absolutely free. You won't believe it, it's amazing. 809 7 8 three O 5 7, where Mike pillow dot com. You just got Eric..
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Tell me Eric, why is relief factors so successful at lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. So the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, each helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway, and that right there approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. So if you've got back pain, shoulder neck hip knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it will work for you. It works for me. It has for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more, go to relief factor dot com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer, feel the difference. Somewhere. On the sea hey folks final segment talking with Pete hegseth and David Goodwin battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation. So Pete the headline here is that you're not just an empty talking head on Fox and Friends. It's not like they say he's smart. He could do things. It gives me such joy to know that you not only get this stuff, but that you've joined with David and written a book about it and that you're using your platform to get the word out to the American people about what is happening. I think part of this has been as a father, a journey of discovery myself as a parent. And that's how we've treated this book and how we treated the film series at Fox nation as well. David, I call him my Sherpa, you know? He's leading me through and I'm discovering in real time very much like most of our viewers are right now. Oh my goodness. I knew there were some problems. I didn't realize it was this big. And hopefully, because I've only more recently made some of the choices to get my kids intentionally into some of these schools. So all of us are behind the curve. And I feel this ticking clock in my mind of every moment they're not in that education. I'm not doing what I should be doing for them. Yes, I need to be doing it in the home. Yes, I need to be doing it in church, but to not have the third part of that of the classroom reinforcing the things that I believe. I'm just losing time. And so I would urge the same thing to parents, do the research, take a look, it's not enough to feel like your principles are nice guy or you've got two members of the school board. That's wonderful. We should fight those places. I don't think we should give up any space. But right now we're in a knife fight. We're in the kill zone. And they've got us surrounded and you've got to act when you're in that spot. Well, I got to tell you, that's a fact what you just said. And there are lots of people that don't get that. They don't have the urgency. They think, oh, you're being hot heads. How I wish that were true. How I wish that were true. I mean, look, Chesterton was talking about this stuff in the 1920s. Some people saw this and they've been talking about it. C. S. Lewis was talking about it in the abolition of man. This has been going on and on and on and on. And all along the bad guys will smile at you and say, we want to help your kids in the new world here that we're creating. To me, it's the level of urgency that needs to be communicated. And I know you do in the book that what is the website again for the classical Christian classical Christian dot org. Classical Christian dot org. There's just no way around it. You don't have America without these ideas. In other words, the west, the Greek tradition, the geo Christian tradition, come together to make real freedom possible and people died for this. And when you remove those things, it's a Brave New World. It's China. It's def camps. But people don't believe that. They don't seem to understand and how close we are, basically. Well, before, I mean, we tend to see what's closest to us, obviously. If we go back in history before Christ and before this form of thought and education, it was an ugly place. It was pretty brutal. People thought we did not want to go back there. People don't realize. I mean, look, because my mother grew up in East Germany and my father came from Greece where the communists were trying to take over. They raised me to love this country and to understand how horribly bad it can be. But I think most Americans think like, how bad could it get? Maybe the economy will down, it would go down or gas prices will go up to ten bucks. So okay. But you know what? It can't get that bad. They don't seem to understand that when you pull these things out, it becomes a satanic nightmare. They just won't believe it until they see it. But I think people are beginning to see it. I think American exceptionalism comes with a dose of feeling of America inevitability. And as a result, people say, well, yeah, it's bad, but there's no way we can be that. And things will be okay. And my kid is going to be just fine. And so there is a complacency inside all of us. And when you start to realize the depth of the problem, you realize how small you are, which is a wonderful recognition actually, but that means you can affect something. You can choose where your kids go to school. You can choose where your grandkids go to school. And that's the beautiful message of the.
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Is the book uprooting a century of miseducation, David Goodwin has written it with Pete hegseth in that David. You're the head of the association of classical Christian schools. So you're like a brainy guy. Pete is just like a talking hit on Fox and Friends. We know he has nothing to say if it's not on a teleprompter. Pete, how did you get involved in this? I've always learned to join forces with people smarter than me. That's the key. Andy's humble, which makes me hate him even more. You went to Princeton, you went to the Harvard Kennedy school of government. What did you major in at Princeton? Politics. You did. I did. Political philosophy. As sort of a degree of that. But I'll tell you what I've learned in this project, how much I didn't learn. I didn't learn any of this stuff. My kids are in classical Christian schools and all I say every day is, why can't I go back to school and learn these things? Okay, you're singing my song. I have said this over and over in the last couple of decades. I learned something. I wrote a book called if you can keep it Franklin's famous line. And because of Oz Guinness, whose book I had read, I understood things, and all I could think of is how did I not get this? I didn't get any of this. So you obviously going through this elite schools, which like, Yale, they don't teach you this stuff. They teach you John Dewey on steroids, I guess. And they teach you now the latest manifestations of the Frankfurt school and critical theory, which is now we now see as critical race theory, and we talk about every day. But it was just the water in which we swam. I took social studies. We all took social studies who invented social studies. Yeah, why is it not history? Why is it social studies? We can't get into that. We can't get into that, don't talk about it. I didn't know where that all came from. David had done the research and then I was able to lay it upon the environment in which we live right now and realize we all got a progressive education. Yeah. Almost everyone watching guaranteed. Right. Got a progressive education that was started by atheist advanced by marxists who had their own agenda and it all happened subtly, and a lot of us think we aren't infected, but we are. And so you have to dig under the ruins of what used to exist. And that's what David did in this project. This is the way education our founders were educated, how free people and republics actually perpetuate themselves. Why don't we do that? As opposed to what we're doing now. I have to say to people need to understand that if you don't get this stuff, if you don't really understand this, you really can't combat it because you don't know. This is why I think so many people are cowards. I mean, so many Republicans are cowards. They don't really understand it. And they're kind of afraid of being questioned. So they just go like, well, what do I need to say so that you don't come after me? I'll just say whatever you want me to say. Because they don't really understand what is happening. And so what you're talking about, when you talk about John Dewey signing the atheist humanist manifesto, we need to understand there's a worldview, it is an atheistic worldview. It is at war with the biblical worldview. And we couldn't have America without the biblical world. You don't need to be a Christian to be an American, but you need to understand historically speaking, you do not get American style self government without the Israel covenant of the Old Testament or whatever. It's just not you can talk all day you want about the Iroquois system and people kind of throw this stuff out there. But it's historical fact, isn't it? I mean, you can't really argue with it, but you can ignore it. Well, you know, in the book we talk about the liberal arts and how they were originally developed by the Greeks to enable a republic or a democracy. And we, in this day and age, we think it's just a natural thing. One of the things Pete talks about in the book is his time, pizza, a veteran. And he talks about his time in Afghanistan and the differences that you see in the paideia of the different parts of the world. And we're taking for granted this critical thing that's liberal art tradition. Where people can are trained to think for themselves. That's the independently minded. That's the key. And let's be.
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Hey, welcome back folks. We're talking about American education, battle for the American mind, is the book uprooting a century of miseducation, David Goodwin has written it with Pete hegseth in that David. You're the head of the association of classical Christian schools. So you're like a brainy guy. Pete is just like a talking hit on Fox and Friends. We know he has nothing to say if it's not on a teleprompter. Pete, how did you get involved in this? I've always learned to join forces with people smarter than me. That's the key. Andy's humble, which makes me hate him even more. You went to Princeton, you went to the Harvard Kennedy school of government. What did you major in at Princeton? Politics. You did. I did. Political philosophy. As sort of a degree of that. But I'll tell you what I've learned in this project, how much I didn't learn. I didn't learn any of this stuff. My kids are in classical Christian schools and all I say every day is, why can't I go back to school and learn these things? Okay, you're singing my song. I have said this over and over in the last couple of decades. I learned something. I wrote a book called if you can keep it Franklin's famous line. And because of Oz Guinness, whose book I had read, I understood things, and all I could think of is how did I not get this? I didn't get any of this. So you obviously going through this elite schools, which like, Yale, they don't teach you this stuff. They teach you John Dewey on steroids, I guess. And they teach you now the latest manifestations of the Frankfurt school and critical theory, which is now we now see as critical race theory, and we talk about every day. But it was just the water in which we swam. I took social studies. We all took social studies who invented social studies. Yeah, why is it not history? Why is it social studies? We can't get into that. We can't get into that, don't talk about it. I didn't know where that all came from. David had done the research and then I was able to lay it upon the environment in which we live right now and realize we all got a progressive education. Yeah. Almost everyone watching guaranteed. Right. Got a progressive education that was started by atheist advanced by marxists who had their own agenda and it all happened subtly, and a lot of us think we aren't infected, but we are. And so you have to dig under the ruins of what used to exist. And that's what David did in this project. This is the way education our founders were educated, how free people and republics actually perpetuate themselves. Why don't we do
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How Fox's Pete Hegseth Got Involved With 'Battle for the American Mind'
"Hey, welcome back folks. We're talking about American education, battle for the American mind, is the book uprooting a century of miseducation, David Goodwin has written it with Pete hegseth in that David. You're the head of the association of classical Christian schools. So you're like a brainy guy. Pete is just like a talking hit on Fox and Friends. We know he has nothing to say if it's not on a teleprompter. Pete, how did you get involved in this? I've always learned to join forces with people smarter than me. That's the key. Andy's humble, which makes me hate him even more. You went to Princeton, you went to the Harvard Kennedy school of government. What did you major in at Princeton? Politics. You did. I did. Political philosophy. As sort of a degree of that. But I'll tell you what I've learned in this project, how much I didn't learn. I didn't learn any of this stuff. My kids are in classical Christian schools and all I say every day is, why can't I go back to school and learn these things? Okay, you're singing my song. I have said this over and over in the last couple of decades. I learned something. I wrote a book called if you can keep it Franklin's famous line. And because of Oz Guinness, whose book I had read, I understood things, and all I could think of is how did I not get this? I didn't get any of this. So you obviously going through this elite schools, which like, Yale, they don't teach you this stuff. They teach you John Dewey on steroids, I guess. And they teach you now the latest manifestations of the Frankfurt school and critical theory, which is now we now see as critical race theory, and we talk about every day. But it was just the water in which we swam. I took social studies. We all took social studies who invented social studies. Yeah, why is it not history? Why is it social studies? We can't get into that. We can't get into that, don't talk about it. I didn't know where that all came from. David had done the research and then I was able to lay it upon the environment in which we live right now and realize we all got a progressive education. Yeah. Almost everyone watching guaranteed. Right. Got a progressive education that was started by atheist advanced by marxists who had their own agenda and it all happened subtly, and a lot of us think we aren't infected, but we are. And so you have to dig under the ruins of what used to exist. And that's what David did in this project. This is the way education our founders were educated, how free people and republics actually perpetuate themselves. Why don't we do
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Site. And then the churches, as you talked about, Eric, did the work for the left at that very same time, which is a huge section that David wrote about by splitting itself. I mean, today's evangelical movement has basically given up the idea of education at all, and that became Sunday school. And the progressives, we have a couple of quotes in here, openly mock it. They say, what can one hour of theistic training on Sunday do against 5 days of progressive training during the week? They knew once the God was pushed out. They had the advantage, which is why the name of this book was almost the 16,000 hour war, because it's 16,000 hours of public instruction that your kids get from K through 12 when that's nowhere near the amount of time they would spend inside a church or a church group or with religious instruction. I mean, this is jaw dropping stuff. This is absolutely jaw dropping stuff. I marvel at the genius of the wicked. In other words, the idea that they thought this through and that they were so dedicated to getting God out. And again, there are many people today. They think they're conservatives. Don't understand that without virtue and faith, you can't have freedom. You can talk all you want about the free market and we believe in free. Your version of freedom is like Dewey's version of patriotism. Ultimately, it's hollow, and it will, there's nothing there. And you're going to find out, you will find out if you don't understand that at the heart of what you think you value has to be some kind of virtue. You're going to have to teach virtue and virtue comes from faith in something larger and whatever. But if you're teaching nihilism, you can't do that. So it's this sleight of hand. And the proof will be in the pudding. We're talking to the authors of battle for the American mind, Pete hegseth, and David Goodwin don't go away. And civilize jungle females that door the Lions who come on swinging.
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When Did Public Ed. Go Crazy? Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin Explain
"In America, we're free. So we say, we're going to educate our kids. We're going to have a one room schoolhouse. I've got to plow the fields. My wife's got stuff to do. So we're going to hire a school teacher and we're going to get them to teach the kids in the neighborhood. And they're going to teach exactly what we want them to teach obviously. They're the experts, but we're not going to let them teach things that we think are wrong. And that's how we got public education quote unquote. When did that go crazy and wrong? Well, certainly you mentioned some of the star players, John Dewey, early part of the 20th century. That was the epiphany I had is I researched the book originally, was that this doesn't date back to the 1960s, which most of us think. That's when you see the manifestation of it. It dates to an earlier time, right? Between 1915 and 1930, when the progressives actually built the school system that we now know in America. Okay, and that is true of everything. Now, there's not just education. Like, we think, oh, the 60s. Well, the 60s is when it bore fruit, but you can trace all of these things back. Most of the things that we know are wrong, which end up being anti American and cultural Marxism. They did begin originally in that time, whether you're talking about progressivism in the Protestant churches or whatever. All of this stuff, the seeds were planted then by some key
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I didn't see you. Folks, I am really excited right now because we're talking about something in this hour and I hope in the next hour as well that's at the heart of my concerns for the nation for the culture for the world. Something called education. I have in front of me, a brand new book called battle for the American mind, uprooting a century of miseducation, the authors are in the studio Pete hegseth and David Goodwin welcome. Thank you, Eric. Now I know both of you sort of because but from different worlds, you're mister Fox and Friends on the weekends or my confusing you with another Pete hegseth. No, you're right, you're right. And we met in multiple iterations. Here and there. But the problem is when you see somebody on TV, you don't remember, did I actually meet them or did I just saw that see them on YouTube or something like that? But David Goodwin, you are the head of the association of classical Christian schools. Yes. Devotee and fan of classical Christian education and of homeschooling and I am thrilled to see you again. And thank you for writing a book because we need to talk about this. So where do we start? First of all, I think most people want to know, hey, how did Pete hegseth meet David Goodwin? How did you come to write a book together? Well, I met David Goodwin. You mentioned Fox and Friends. It happenstance to that. I was at a diner in rural North Carolina talking about the news of the day as we do on the morning show. And a family approached me too cute little girls in uniforms and a woman pulled me aside and said, you know, what do you know about classical Christian education? Because we were talking about it. And we got to talk in and she said, you got to meet this guy, David Goodwin, and she put us in touch. And I had kids that had been in classical questions, so I was familiar with it, but I didn't understand the larger movement. And we just got to know each other and he shared some early manuscripts that he was working on of research that he had done. And I kept reading it and saying, this is amazing. Everybody's got to know this. This is the key right here. And over months and then years, we kind of joined forces and swap notes, and then we decided to embark on a Fox nation film called miseducation of America, which is where, and then this book also came out of that project as well. So it is a genuine partnership of two people coming at the same issue with passion and David's David is the expert. He's the man. Well, I think as things unravel at the speed of light, people are waking up. And, you know, there's a famous scripture Romans 8 28. You don't have to believe in the Bible. Just pretend Ben Franklin said it. It says all things work together for good for those that love the lord and are called according to his purposes. In other words, even when things are in a nightmare where you have cultural Marxism being shoved down our throats and all that, the good news for us in America is that it's waking people up who otherwise would have remained asleep. They're thinking, wait, wait, wait, what? You're teaching my kids what? I had no idea. Because, you know, in 1975, when I was in fourth grade, it was not, so this is good. And then of course, people want to know, all right, now what do we do? Now where do we send our kids? We know we're not setting them to those schools unless we get on the board and fix that. So, but I do love the idea that in this book, you tell us how we got here. So let's start, I mean, do we go to John Dewey? Do we go before John Dewey? How did we get to a point? Let me just say this. In America, we're free. So we say, we're going to educate our kids. We're going to have a one room schoolhouse. I've got to plow the fields. My wife's got stuff to do. So we're going to hire a school teacher and we're going to get them to teach the kids in the neighborhood. And they're going to teach exactly what we want them to teach obviously. They're the experts, but we're not going to let them teach things that we think are wrong. And that's how we got public education quote unquote. When did that go crazy and.
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Why Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin Decided to Write a Book Together
"Folks, I am really excited right now because we're talking about something in this hour and I hope in the next hour as well that's at the heart of my concerns for the nation for the culture for the world. Something called education. I have in front of me, a brand new book called battle for the American mind, uprooting a century of miseducation, the authors are in the studio Pete hegseth and David Goodwin welcome. Thank you, Eric. Now I know both of you sort of because but from different worlds, you're mister Fox and Friends on the weekends or my confusing you with another Pete hegseth. No, you're right, you're right. And we met in multiple iterations. Here and there. But the problem is when you see somebody on TV, you don't remember, did I actually meet them or did I just saw that see them on YouTube or something like that? But David Goodwin, you are the head of the association of classical Christian schools. Yes. Devotee and fan of classical Christian education and of homeschooling and I am thrilled to see you again. And thank you for writing a book because we need to talk about this. So where do we start? First of all, I think most people want to know, hey, how did Pete hegseth meet David Goodwin? How did you come to write a book together? Well, I met David Goodwin. You mentioned Fox and Friends. It happenstance to that. I was at a diner in rural North Carolina talking about the news of the day as we do on the morning show. And a family approached me too cute little girls in uniforms and a woman pulled me aside and said, you know, what do you know about classical Christian education? Because we were talking about it. And we got to talk in and she said, you got to meet this guy, David Goodwin, and she put us in touch. And I had kids that had been in classical questions, so I was familiar with it, but I didn't understand the larger movement. And we just got to know each other and he shared some early manuscripts that he was working on of research that he had done. And I kept reading it and saying, this is amazing. Everybody's got to know this. This is the key right here. And over months and then years, we kind of joined forces and swap notes, and then we decided to embark on a Fox nation film called miseducation of America, which is where, and then this book also came out of that project as well. So it is a genuine partnership
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Back folks, we're talking about education, American education. Remember that? It's the book is the battle for the American mind uprooting a century of miseducation, Pete hegseth and David Goodwin, the authors. Again, the good news is we're waking up to this. The good news is there are solutions that are still possible. But we are in a battle. I mean, the teachers unions, for example, we now know, are just leftists. They are just marxists. They don't even believe that we should have a say in what our kids learn. I mean, it's kind of like we skipped backwards to Mao's cultural revolution and we're suddenly in China in 1965 and the parents are being demonized by their own children. I mean, it's like, you just didn't think this could happen in America. Not only did they not think parents should know, they think parents are the rubes over here who are poisoning their kids with yesterday's dogma and it's the job of the school to give the correct education to hide the gender transition that's going on at school from the very parent. This is a war. We chose that intentional. I mean, I guess I have a military background. It is a war for the future of our country of ideas of our faith of the things our country was founded on. And if we don't, but education has just been this secondary issue for too many people. Every other political issue has been atop the list for decades. Well, look, let's be honest. Do you have Republicans like Jeb Bush pushing common core? I mean, they have been useless, utterly useless. Right. They don't seem to get this. And it took almost until the fourth year of the Trump presidency to it as a huge fan of his to look at the 1776 commission. I mean, he's fighting a thousand battles, so I don't begrudge him anything. But it is the type of thing where it is snuck up on us so slowly yet so quickly. And our answers are so insufficient that that's why the solution section is as big as it is in this book because you got to get people to wrap their heads around how infected we all really are. How much we didn't learn. One of the things that I think we just have to be clear in American public education before it went wrong in the 19th century, we would teach love of country, love of God, like these basic things, love of freedom. What is freedom? We really understood that there's just no pulling these things apart. And if we don't teach them, they go away. And most of the world, they don't have this kind of stuff. So we had this pride in inculcating the generations with these ideas and celebrating them. And as we know, through the decades, this went away so that patriotism, you know, it just kind of went out in elite circles. We're globalists. We're elitist. We don't believe in that rube stuff, you know, rah rah, America. And they demonize the concept of love of country, which I just find amazing, especially you served in the military. I mean, the idea that we would denigrate a healthy love of country as somehow jingoistic chest thumping, triumphalist. I mean, it's kind of amazing how deep those bad ideas got so that you have a lot of people in the country who they just kind of have gone along with that. Especially in the blue states. Yeah, we're self loathing at this point. America was to quote the disgraced former governor of New York, America was never great. That is the view.
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"david goodwin" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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