Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

Hello America. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. Delighted to have you with me.

The phone number 877-977--7-3-7-4-25 should you wish to be on the program.

Just as an aside on a programming note real quick, I mentioned this to the first hour.

Charlie has returned.

Try not to say nice things about him on the radio.

But my gosh, it is, it's good to have him here.

The show just seems to function better with him here.

I mean, Philip and I, we can keep the lights on and Jim keeps the board going.

But every once in a while when Charlie leaves, it kind of makes me feel like, you know, it's my company and it's my show, but I feel like the boss is gone.

Now he's back to bosses around and the world is better because of it, I guess.

I got to spend some time talking about the youth of America, the youths of America.

We send our kids to a small Christian private school.

It's a classical education school.

So in elementary school, you learn Latin.

It's the rhetoric school and the logic school.

The logic school is the lower school, the rhetoric school, the upper school.

And essentially, they use the classical education model of you learn a lot of facts in elementary school, the upper school, and essentially they use the classical education model of

you learn a lot of facts in elementary school. You memorize a ton of stuff. And you get into middle

school, you start taking more analytical classes and honing your writing, and then you get into

high school and you're taking your logic class. You're learning how to do speech and debate and argue and make your case.

For all those facts you learned in elementary school, how to synthesize them and analyze them

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