From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Jewish Americans, because they are looked at as white, even though, somewhat ironically, the majority of Israeli Jews are Middle Eastern and African backgrounds, Jews are placed in the category of white, and that

colors the way, no pun intended, that colors the way that these campus debates about Israel

play out.

This is your host Scott Bertram, and that's Joel Pollack, senior editor at large Breitbart, also

author of the biography, Rhoda, Comrade Cadale,

You Are Out of Order. We'll talk in depth a bit later with Joel about the connection between

anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. First, we're joined by Dr. David Deeder. He is Assistant

Professor of Education at Hillsdale College. Dr. Deiner, thanks for joining us. Thank you so much

for having me. Talking today about the philosophy of education, if I'm not mistaken, your dissertation

on the subject? So I did a dual PhD in philosophy and philosophy of education. Yes. So a good

person to talk to about this. Why is philosophy of education so important?

Well, that's a great question. I think the shortest answer is because you can't do education

without it. So throughout history, people have recognized continually that philosophical questions

and educational practice are closely intertwined and that the doing of education,

the practices of education, are based whether you recognize it or not, on the answers you give

to key philosophical questions. And so thinking about those and considering them is actually

really important. Do we talk enough today? Is there enough

discourse in the education realm focused on the philosophy of education? The short answer is,

I would argue, absolutely not. The sad truth is that today, in most schools of education,

most educational discourse,

there is very little of what we would call traditional philosophical thought.

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