About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of teaching civics to children and critiques the current educational system's approach to values and critical thinking.

As a run-up to our 350th Independence Day, I thought it would be good to revisit some of our episodes related to that. Today: teaching your child civics. This vital education is entirely missing from our government schools -- intentionally so. Something else has been substituted: being a world citizen. Oh, that sounds great, but when you investigate, what has happened is an entire switch from Christian, American, community values. Even character training has been entirely erased. Instead of character, a training in tirggered feelings. Instead of moral and civic engagement, a weaponization of activism, whole based on feelings generated by someone else. Critical thinking is not analytic and synthetic, but critical meaning Marxist deconstructionist. (If you question this, check out the little booklets that come yearly to every professor's mailbox that supposedly encourage critical thinking and discover that the conclusions are all Marxist. Never could logic come out conventional or Christian -- apparently -- based on those booklets. By contrast, I think you know that there are many apologetic references that do use logic and come out with conventional morals.) In short, for 2 or 3…

People in this episode

Host: Sharon Sarles

Topics covered

• civics education
• Christian values
• government schools
• activism
• critical thinking
• American history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: government schools, private schools

Books & works: Critical thinking

Places: United States

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• Parents Teaching Civics? · July 2, 2026 · 21 min
• Celebrate the 250th by Studying the Founders’ Principles · June 25, 2026 · 23 min

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