Ep. 3987 The SHOCKING Reality of Today’s Education System!
Turley Talks
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The podcast delves into the classical understanding of education as a means of character formation rather than mere information transfer. It emphasizes the importance of leading children towards truth, goodness, and beauty, which reflect a divine order and contribute to societal flourishing. The discussion also highlights the interplay between education and culture, asserting that virtuous citizenship rooted in moral values is essential for a healthy society.
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Highlights:
- “Education is fundamentally about shaping character, not just transferring information.”
- “The classical tradition connects education with the cultivation of truth, goodness, and beauty.”
- “Virtue is defined by the right ordering of loves, essential for a flourishing society.”
- “The interplay between education and culture is crucial for instilling civic responsibility.”
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| 0:00.0 | The liberal globalist order is at its brink and awakening a new conservative age. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Dr. Steve Turley. |
| 0:08.1 | Join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the revitalization of conservative civilization. |
| 0:17.9 | This is Turley Talks. |
| 0:20.9 | Hey, gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your patriot professor. |
| 0:24.2 | Today I'm away from the studio. I'm actually in front of a room full of patriots pouring |
| 0:29.5 | into people who are ready to fight for faith, family, and freedom in their own communities. |
| 0:34.9 | It's one of my favorite things I love to do, but I cannot let the day |
| 0:39.3 | go by without walking with you too. So ahead of time, I sat down and recorded this conversation |
| 0:46.5 | just for moments like this. I'd love for you to share one concrete thing that you're doing to push |
| 0:52.3 | back and build something beautiful right where you are. |
| 0:55.7 | This is part of a movement and it needs your voice in it. |
| 1:00.4 | So in our English, it's derived from this Latin term educare, meaning to lead out. |
| 1:14.5 | So think of Duke, right? Duke Ferdinand, for example, right? Duke means leader. So to educate is to take the student by the hand and lead them somewhere. |
| 1:21.8 | The ancient Greeks had a term for the teacher, which is pedagogas, |
| 1:28.3 | which we derive the English word pedagogy or pedagogue, |
| 1:33.3 | and it's a combination of pedia, which means child, |
| 1:37.3 | and agogas leader, someone who literally leads a child. |
| 1:42.3 | So the moment you hear that definition, the obvious follow-up question presents itself immediately. |
| 1:53.4 | If education is all about leading children out, the obvious question then is, where are we |
| 2:00.6 | leading them? They're being led to what to |
| 2:05.9 | where what's the destination where are we taking them and that's the question that's the central |
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