Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Thesis for Thursday the 15th of May

2025. I'm joined by Dr. Nima Parvini. Hello. How are you doing? Thanks for having me,

Carl. Good. Wonderful spring. It has been lovely, actually, isn't it? You can see why Stama's like,

yeah, we're going to turn off the sun. You're having too much of a good time. Not on my watch. But today we're going to be talking

about the absolute state of modern education, because of course, this is something that has

deeply concerned me for many years. You know, I'm a dad, you're a dad. Our children are getting

the worst education. It's probably, probably since the middle ages, if not before.

And it's just dramatic embarrassment. Then we're going to be talking about how Julius Caesar was in fact a wizard.

And I'm not going to qualify that. I absolutely mean when I say Julius Caesar had access to magic, he did.

You'll find out what I mean. And then we're going to go on a crusade against Latin just the language when used in the

English context look forward to it it'll be good trust Anyway, so let's begin with the absolute state of modern

education. Now, it's actually not any kind of revelation say that, well, modern education is pretty

poor, isn't it? I mean, everyone knows it. It's everywhere all around us. And this is an old joke

that old heads will know, right, a video called Modern Education that was produced, and I had to check this nine years ago.

But what this was mocking was the advance of woke and SJWs through the education system back then, which was totally fair.

But the problem of poor education predates this by a long way. This is something

that began in the sort of middle of the 20th century, probably around the boomers, actually,

and was taken away from us. And weirdly enough, it was something that came up a lot when I was

talking about adolescence. Did you watch adolescence? I haven't seen it, I'm afraid.

You know what? I think you didn't actually enjoy it because it's actually more interesting

than you think. Because one of the things that portrayed in it is the schooling system. And the

only thing you can come away with from watching their portrayal of the modern school system is

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