Welcome to the intersectional faith in politics.

While builders live with David Barton and Rick Green.

Today's program is remarkable young Americans.

You're going to be blown away by some of the stories you hear today

of what Americans have done at a very young age and it'll help to encourage the next

generation to do the same.

Here we are. We're going to go

straight to the set for building on the American Heritage Series.

Our topic today is about education in the youth of the founding fathers. They seem

to be at a younger age and have a totally

different expectation of how the young people would learn.

Well, for actually not just founding fathers, I mean you can go to the first 350 years of

American education and you'll find the product we created with youth is totally

different than what we have today. I mean there's so many great examples that you can

point to of that. Being a cowboy myself, I live on a ranch, Pony Express is really intriguing for me.

I love the fact and I try to think about what it would have been like because you had folks

riding from St. Joe Missouri all the way to San Francisco, that's a half the nation and you do it

ten days on horseback.

You make that and it's dangerous.

That's solo too, right?

The solo individuals, you're having to fight along the way from bandits or Indian attacks or whatever to get the the mail through and

No Pony Express writer was over 18 years old they were all 17 and now

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