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Robert Jackson joins us today.

He is the executive director of the Institute

for Classical Education at Great

Hearts America. He has served previously for a dozen years. He was professor of English and

education at the King's College in New York. So he's been involved in getting high school

teachers into the classroom and having to teach a really good curriculum. So welcome Robert.

Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me, Mark.

The Institute for Classical Education. First of all, just give us your definition of classical

education. You bet. Classical education is really focused on preparing the student to be both intellectually, morally, and aesthetically alive, right? We want a form of education that will help young people to understand that their life's pursuit is to obtain wisdom.

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