Do you think there should be a department of education?

I don't know.

What does government have a role in education?

0% that is a wildly education, all education is self-education.

When we talk about the education of our children, it's hard to understate how important

that really is.

How important it is for them, for our kids, for families, for our society.

But very rarely do you ever hear anyone asking the question of what is true education?

What's the difference between school versus education?

Are we as a country providing a truly quality education for our kids?

These are such important questions to ask at a time when our outcomes of our education

system in this country are bleak at best.

We have a huge number of kids who are graduating from high school functionally illiterate,

having a difficult time with basic reading and writing.

We have kids who don't understand basic civics, how government works, how our democracy

in this society works, why it's important to participate in it, not having an understanding

or even knowing what the constitution is and what the Bill of Rights says and why it

is integral and important to every one of us as Americans.

It goes back to this core question of what is education and what are we as a society

placing importance on as we're talking about educating our children and setting them

up for success in their lives.

My conversation with today's guest, Matt Boudreau, was fascinating and gets to the heart

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