Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome, this is Plodcast,

the Plodcast podcast, this is episode 53.

Good to have you with us.

So I want to talk today about the crisis in higher education.

The crisis in higher education. We are in the middle of a higher education.

We are in the middle of a higher education bubble, which I think is going to be followed by a crash.

And we have to, there are multiple areas where we have to rethink what we are what

we are doing and and this especially includes Christian parents who are, if they have kids, they are engaged in the work of saving many of them, saving up for college and what are we going to do with our kids when they graduate.

And so I believe that conservative Christian parents have done a much better job thinking through the implications of K through 12 education

then they have done thinking through the implications of higher education.

There are various reasons for this, but there is a much more fundamental loyalty that Christians have toward their alma mater at the college

level than they do when they're thinking about education in grade school, for example.

And that makes sense.

If your great-grandfather went to Old Miss and your grandfather went to Old Miss and you went to Old Miss and you know where's your

son going to go right so so the pressure is on but I don't think we've thought it through.

When the recent resurgence of Christian education in America and with the subset that I've been

involved in, the resurgence of classical Christian education in America. This has happened within the last

generation. So within the last generation hundreds and hundreds of K through 12 schools have formed.

And the reason they formed was because the parents became highly dissatisfied with the school down the street.

The kids weren't learning to read or there was too many drug deals on the

playground or there was one condom on a banana in the classroom too many you know

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