Is School Failing Our Kids? | The Kirk Cameron Show Ep 8

The Kirk Cameron Show

Kirk Cameron

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.9 • 776 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another Dangerous Conversation on The Kirk Cameron Show—a safe space for dangerous conversations. In this episode, Kirk and James dive into a deeply personal and thought-provoking discussion on education: 📚 What is the purpose of school? 🧠 Are we really preparing kids for real life—or just creating factory workers? 💡 Why do we value some types of intelligence over others? 👨‍🏫 How can we reimagine education to empower kids in the way God designed them? They unpack a bold quote by John D. Rockefeller, examine the roots of our education system, and explore powerful insights from Albert Einstein, Dr. Kathy Koch, and Vodie Baucham. From public schools to homeschool, standardized tests to personal passions—this episode is a must-watch for parents, educators, and anyone thinking about the future of learning. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Editing and production services provided by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thepodcastupload.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #TheKirkCameronShow #DangerousConversations #EducationReform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to the Kirk Cameron Show.
0:09.4	It's Wednesday.
0:10.4	This is our midweek madness, dangerous conversation.
0:14.0	Hey, James, I like to think of this as sort of like a verbal speak easy, where you come to the Kirk Cameron show and there's a little door
0:23.3	in the back you open up and you enter into a safe space for a dangerous conversation.
0:29.3	It kind of looks like one with this trout glass.
0:31.8	That's right.
0:32.1	It's coffee.
0:32.7	I promise you it's coffee.
0:34.0	We read in the comments someone's like, that's not coffee.
0:37.4	It is. Strong black coffee. That's right. We read in the comments someone's like, that's not coffee. It is. Strong black
0:39.4	coffee. That's right. You like the cold brew. I do. Which has a unique flavor to it. It takes the
0:44.0	nasty bite out of it. Out of the, out of the bitter. It's kind of dangerous though, because you can be
0:50.2	very caffeinated throughout the day. I've gone through like an entire bottle in one day.
1:00.0	Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what are we talking about today? So I was having a conversation with one of my friends and we were just talking about high school and what that was like and kind of it morphed into
1:06.2	what did we learn in high school and are we using the things that we learned in high school today?
1:14.3	And I look back at high school and there was four topics that I took throughout the four years of me being in high school.
1:23.3	It's history, it's English, it's math, and it's science.
1:26.6	Yeah, basically.
1:27.4	Yeah. Basically. And I it's science. Yeah, basically, yeah.
1:27.7	Basically. And I took Spanish also.
1:31.4	You've heard me try to speak Spanish, don't know much of it at all.
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