Educational Philosophy

About

Education is one of the chief reasons we are on Earth. Naturally we want that education to be guided, as learning can just as easily be used for ill as for good. ‘Just getting kids to read’ is not nearly enough, unless you don’t care whether they turn out to be communists. No, we are a solemn duty to guide the education of the youth. Since the school system is increasingly controlled by woke bureaucrats rather than local parents, one of the key ways to do this is to homeschool your children. This and several other tools are at your disposal to make life for yourself and those you care for rich in the best way. Only the best of teachers and books should be relied upon to educate children, and the first step is learning to identify who and what those are. Once you’ve identified these fountains of truth, you can confidently stand by them, and share them to the world, especially to those in your world. Finally, education is more than reading writing and arithmetic, though those subjects are strangely often neglected. Education is about learning to be a good person. Education has always been an inherently moral battleground, and this is why it’ll never do to have secular teachers. Humans are moral creatures, and will always preach morality, whether that’s obvious or not. This said, WHAT you teach will always be more important than HOW you teach it, which is the opposite focus of professional teachers today, who catastrophically know more about ‘how to teach’ than their actual subject matter.

Books

Rough Drafts:

Homeschool Advocacy – Righteousness, Independence, Brilliance (PDF)
Learning Methods (PDF)
Prominent Voices of Truth – Books, Teachers, Forums (PDF)
RS Ed Forums 3.24.24 6×9 20p – Links to social forums by topic for learning and teaching.
RS Ed Great Divide 3.24.24 6×9 24p – Traditionalist vs Progressive Philosophies
RS Ed Sleep Overrated 3.24.24 6×9 30p – Quotes and stories of heroes who have pushed past sleep to do great things.
RS Ed Slogans 3.24.24 6×9 30p – Fun slogans for clothes, stickers, etc. by topic.
RS Ed Solutions 3.24.24 6×9 30p – Notes on a lecture I did overviewing various educational solutions to help families.
RS Libraries 3.24.24 6×9 70p – Suggested books movies etc.

Videos

2hrs Staying Traditional in a World Gone Mad – Nate & Megan Richardson on The Mormon Renegade Podcast with David Sanders (Encouraging family based culture, large families, resisting anti-family social pressure, sibling groups for socialization, homeschooling for Christian customized education, failure of public school’s curriculum and toxic behavior allowance, dating, parental discipline, traditional gender roles, seeking religious community, foster parenting, finding likeminded groups, exploring the higher law of plural marriage for family creation, etc.)
40min The Ideal Classroom, Why We Don’t Give Graded Homework, and Gospel Analogies – Continued
13min Joy: The Key to Learning