Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You will have to take the lead on this.

It feels elitist to say it, but it's true. Public education is built for the lowest common denominator. It has to be. One of the beautiful and powerful things about public education is that it's for everyone. And to be for everyone, it has to average out the needs and skill level, and that means neglecting what is superfluous

and advanced. This is not criticism. It's just a reality. It's not even limited to public schooling.

In a sense, all schooling, since it is built for the group and not the individual has this inherent

weakness. It has strengths, too, but this weakness is there. And your goal, however, is not to raise an average kid.

Your goal is not to settle for the lowest common denominator.

So are you ready, willing, and actively engaged to compensate for this?

No one suffers more at school than the gifted pupil, the brilliant Stefan Zweig once wrote,

in whom in the sterility of its methods,

the school knows neither how to cultivate nor bring to fruition the inner gift. There are many

ways for you to cultivate this inner gift, but again, it is essential to accept that ultimately

this role falls on you. You're the one who will have to teach them civics since schools have

neglected this. It's your job to set high expectations for who will have to teach them civics since schools have neglected this.

It's your job to set high expectations for them, not to baby them when it comes to books

and to find the right moment to recommend the right ones. You're going to have to introduce

them to the dangerous ideas out there because, again, most of them aren't safe enough to be

given in the classroom. You will have to teach them

how to figure these things out and how to take their education in their own hands. You will have

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