Raising Human Beings Not Human Doings with Joshua Pauling

About this episode

Joshua Pauling joins Davies Owens to discuss the shortcomings of modern education and the benefits of classical Christian education.

Joshua Pauling joins Davies Owens to explore how modern education often prioritizes efficiency, metrics, and performance over true human formation and how classical Christian education offers a more humane alternative.

People in this episode

Host: Davies Owens

Guest: Joshua Pauling

Topics covered

• education
• human formation
• classical Christian education
• modern education
• efficiency
• metrics
• performance

Keywords

• education
• human formation
• classical education
• efficiency
• metrics
• performance
• human beings

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