Thursday, December 4, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses America’s educational crisis, DEI and the decline of America’s educational system, the rise of dumbing down educational curriculum, and the ban of biological males from Girlguiding groups in the UK.
Part I (00:13 – 13:45)
America is in an Educational Crisis: Attempts to Fix Both Kids and Schools Have Failed
- America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? by The New York Times (Jia Lynn Yang)
- Accommodation Nation by The Atlantic (Rose Horowitch)
- The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math by The Wall Street Journal (Allysia Finley)
DEI and the Decline of America’s Educational System: The Societal Transformation Towards Therapeutics and DEI Initiatives is a Big Part of This Problem
Part III (21:08 – 22:39)
Idiocy on the Rise: Dumbing Down Educational Curriculum, Like Removing College Algebra From the Curriculum, Will Lead to More Dumbing Down Than You Think
- A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
Girlguiding is Only For Girls Now: UK Women’s and Girls’ Groups “Regrettably” Ban Biological Males, Deeming Their Groups are for Women Only – Who Would’ve Thought?
- Two U.K. Women’s Groups Ban Transgender Girls and Women by The New York Times (Michael D. Shear)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 4, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | I think most of us by now are aware that the nation faces a very significant educational crisis, an academic crisis, a learning crisis, a school |
| 0:23.6 | crisis. Now, one of the things we have faced just in recent years is that you have people who |
| 0:30.5 | are saying, look, these kids just aren't doing well in school. They had been doing well, they're not |
| 0:35.7 | doing well any longer, or they're not doing as well |
| 0:38.4 | now as they used to do. Very interesting article appeared in the New York Times asking the question, |
| 0:44.1 | is the problem the children or is the problem the schools? G. L. Nyang wrote a report, and it begins |
| 0:50.1 | this way, quote, one of them were bewildering aspects of the already high stress endeavor of 21st |
| 0:54.7 | century American parenting is that at some point your child is likely to be identified with a |
| 0:59.7 | psychiatric diagnosis of one kind or another. Many exist in a gray zone that previous generations |
| 1:05.3 | of parents never encountered. End quote. Okay. Now, before we go any further, there's just such massive worldview |
| 1:12.8 | importance to be seen in this. We're being told, just in this article for the New York Times, |
| 1:19.1 | that one of the bewildering aspects of modern parenting is the fact, now just listen to how |
| 1:24.9 | this is written. At some point, your child is likely to be identified with a psychiatric diagnosis of one kind or another. |
| 1:32.2 | End quote. |
| 1:33.2 | Now, this is a huge problem. |
| 1:35.3 | It's a problem that's far more massive, I think, than most American parents, most American Christian parents recognize the psychologization, the turning to the therapeutic of just about |
| 1:46.2 | everything, translating every issue into a psychiatric diagnosis or some kind of syndrome. |
| 1:52.3 | All of this is just a huge problem. It should be a huge problem for Christian parents. |
| 1:56.7 | Now, let's just talk about a couple of the issues that are often discussed here. Number one, boys and ADHD, and then also the question of autism. |
| 2:06.1 | And of course, there's some relationship between autism and ADHD. |
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