Why Classical Education Matters Now More Than Ever

[@Paula-pd6qv]

I want to express myself this eloquently. I want to think critically and deeply. I am so glad to know that, at 25-years old and with the hopes of giving my children a classical education, I can learn as well.

[@abdul_muhsin97]

0:28 I'm 25 also and have been been on this path for 6 years now.

[@philtheo]

He is absolutely correct. 😊 Today I'd recommend learning a vocation that can provide a decent living, then learn classics (or another field of interest) on one's own at one's own pace at a significantly more affordable cost. It's very possible to do so with so many free or affordable high quality resources available. I'm doing it, and honestly if I can do it - an average guy from a family which legally immigrated to the US, whose first language wasn't English, who grew up in a single parent family, in a lower middle class household, who never went to a single private school, only public education with its depreciating returns, who in the past has worked in various blue collar jobs to make ends meet and raise a young family, and so on - then anyone can do it! Carpe diem! Edit. Fixed some misspellings and grammar.

[@jackiewright4402]

I feel so cheated by not getting this type of education. I am a public school teacher with a masters degree and most of it has been a waste of time and money. Now I have to self-educate using videos and books in my spare time. I have a job so there’s that.

[@downloadqi]

I relate. When I was homeschooling my 4 sons I had a chance to teach them logic, Latin & other Classic Ed. I too have a Masters & decided recently to relearn my Latin so I can read the Ancients in their own tongue (& pray in Latin). It’s never too late. Our minds are worth it.

[@jackiewright4402]

@ That’s great. My kids are basically grown and went through public school but you are right-it’s worth it!

[@LukeTrywalker]

Same here: public school English teacher trying to "educare" my students with an education I was cheated of at their age.

[@jiensuyang3915]

@@downloadqiu have to pray in Latin to feel good enough? Do u know the meaning of praying? Do u know the meaning and significance of mother tongue? U poor poor thing , u need common sense , psychologist and a dictionary . Latin 😂😂😂😂

[@JCattOfTheCross]

I am in the same boat, soon to be a teacher. Out of the kindness of your heart, could you please share the names of these books so I can read them?

[@capsela2]

Brilliant! Your Climbing Parnassus gave me the "why" for home educating my children in a traditional classical way. As my older kids are now adults, I am seeing the fruits of all that hard work we did. All the eyerolling over Latin and math facts I never ackowledged out loud, but inside wondered if the struggle was worth it. Yes, doing hard things is work, but the fruits will be there in time.

[@williamlenihan7536]

Thank you for this message. Well-articulated. I observe what you say each and everyday - in many faculty and in nearly every student. The lack of passion to learn - to even simply observe, to feel something other than boredom, disturbances, the effects of entertainments - is what we are left with.

[@KatharineWalston-ff6bc]

Mr. Simmons, your thoughtful, well-articulated argument is a pleasure to listen to and to share with others who do not understand the purpose of a classical education. Just listening to your observations causes one to feel ennobled and emboldened to reach higher, with tools that are readily available to transform our, as you so aptly stated “lazy minds” and reach for that which will make us more fully human as we strive for that which is good, true, and beautiful in our daily lives. Thank you!

[@hate.doublespeak991]

Nonsense! Your mind was sleeping when he started talking about Future worship and "forcibly sidelining" which means using force to do millions harm!

[@emilymiller1792]

My K-12 education was before NCLB. I feel my soul was nurtured as well as my mind. The emphasis was on knowledge, but my teachers taught many of the Great Works and emphasized the wisdom and meaning that could be found within. The individual was emphasized because our individual perspectives were encouraged, we were treated as individuals. We had a balance of individual and group projects rather than a "personalized" education. Education was understood to prepare us for both part and whole, individual and community.

[@RobertJones-xg5iv]

Right you are... I got a OU / state of Michigan Teaching Certificate in 1978 & & my college was devoid of any measure of a classical / liberal arts education... Now, I am almost 70 years of age & able to "take a mulligan" on this aspect of my education via Hillsdale College's on line courses ( if you get the golf slang) & over the last couple years Hillsdale has "got me hip to da' room"...

[@louisbacio4469]

Another encouraging video from Memoria Press. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@kathrynjames5299]

Magnificent.

[@williamguru]

I'm sold, except for the shaming part.

[@glaakee]

Excellent! Well spoken.

[@shcrub5]

Such High quality! Absolutely amazing. I wish you all success!

[@nebbykoo]

I have a Classics degree. People think it was a waste of time. They tell me i should have gone into IT.

[@agricolaregs]

Should have. Pays more.

[@SWKS_AG05]

Thank you ❤.

[@anonymous1984y]

Well said

[@ca6362]

Excellent video !

[@Homeschooling.with.Ginger]

The background music detracts from this video.

[@emilymiller1792]

Horace Mann was a small r republican who wanted to bring Jefferson's and other Founders vision of an educated populace, because the republic and perpetuation of it required everyone to know a great deal, like the Founders. Rockefeller twisted what Mann had begun, not for the purpose of educating the masses but preparing workers.

[@Simrealism]

We've landed in the time when people say your guyses. It's already over.

[@dbodde]

You got away without mentioning virtue??

[@jrbergsten]

All of this education, knowledge, and experience and still we put white lettering onto a white video background.

[@ForNoOne1981]

I appreciate the intention and sentiment, but this comes off as pretentious. Also the music needs to be turned down.

[@naj70]

Absolutely- because some of us got this high quality education in public schools - a nourished soul, mind and spirit. It’s not the domain of the privately educated. In fact - to go deeper - many privately educated think… this is their natural advantage .. and thus lack hunger, drive and endeavor. They can be disappointing people. Scarcity can create drive in people.

[@lucyq7ollie]

All of this is true, well and good, and I do not disagree. But there is something else going on in this world that you are overlooking. IQ has dropped continually for over 20 years, so that the average IQ is now 100. We also now have a generation of people birthing children who have no clue how to raise them. You cannot educate wild animals and that is what is being produced in these famiilies, families that want you to raise their children, but by their standards. We are talking about people who have learned to gain the system and have not worked for a living for two generations. So, first you have to solve the societal problem before you can even attempt to solve the educational problem.

[@jaumeromeroventura6190]

The average iq is ALWAYS 100. That’s why it is the average.

[@jackiewright4402]

@@lucyq7ollie How sad! I would hope the Classical Education would help the issues we have in society.

[@ZanarkandIsntReal]

A stupidly well written essay

[@hate.doublespeak991]

....and I quote..... Through deep thinking and a broad imaginative grasp each one of us becomes that citizen of a larger world. Incidentally the time-bound, narrow mind along with keeping us mired in the morass of chronological provinciality also plows the ground for future worship, a belief among the largely unschooled that a near or distant future will be so much better if we could just do A to Z while forcibly sidelining those who have the audacity to resist our Utopian visions. This means 1. You are one of the inner circle. 2. The unschooled are the elite who controls the whole earth. (They created the schooling systems to have intelligent workers) 3. You talk about a future worship - that means the worship of Lucifer by everyone on the earth (both elite and goyam, caticumen) 4. Sidelining those who resist your Utopian Vision and who doesn't want to do .... A to Z (sin hiding in laws or rule of law systems) means you are calling for the inquisition! There you have it, using a talk about "classical education" to spit and promote some future worship agenda? What? Did you think everybody's brains went to sleep while you started spewing like a "loathsome toad" the agenda which you were paid for? There's a reason why the Bible calls Luciferians, loathsome toads because its by continual talking that they spread their evil doctrines. Are we still talking the same thing? Classical Education? Why are you talking about "future worship in a Utopian vision" Why are you talking about "forcibly sidelining" ?