In a Time of Distraction, an Education Focused on Timeless Ideas

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🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to truly be educated? Great Hearts Academies, a series of charter schools in Texas and Arizona, is focused on a classical curriculum. "We are trying to provide a form of education where our students' loves are tapped into. They begin to learn to love what is true. They are drawn to what is beautiful. They recognize that goodness is desirable and they want it for themselves," says Robert Jackson, the chief academic officer of Great Hearts Academies. The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, Pippa, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Black Friday. I hope if you're the shopping store you're getting all the deals.
0:09.6	Anyway, I'm Kate Trinko and today we're not going to have our usual headlines because I decided
0:15.8	that asking the Daily Signal team to work on Thanksgiving would be a Grinch Move.
0:21.2	But we do have an interview I did with Robert Jackson about an exciting group of charter schools and how they're aiming to make education about the whole person, not just learning random bits of knowledge.
0:32.0	As always, please leave us a review or a rating if you're a fan. Now onto our
0:37.1	interview. Joining us from the Heritage Foundation's Presidents Club meeting is Robert Jackson, the chief academic officer of Great Hearts Academies, which has 28 charter schools in Texas and Arizona.
0:51.0	Thank you for joining us.
0:53.1	Thanks for having me, Kate.
0:54.3	Could you tell us about Great Hearts Academies?
0:56.7	I'd be happy to.
0:57.7	And not to be priggish, but we have 30 academies.
1:01.8	So I've got to update.
1:02.7	You need to update your website.
1:03.7	Right?
1:04.6	It's all just happening live right here.
1:06.9	So yeah.
1:08.2	So Great Hearts began as a variant on a private school model that was very popular, is very popular I should say,
1:16.4	the Trinity Schools.
1:18.2	There are three of those in existence and they've been out of for nearly 30 years.
1:22.7	This private school model was of great interest
1:26.0	to a group of families and professors in Tempe,
1:29.4	the area where Arizona State is located back in the mid 90s.
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