Concerns About Education at Harvard

Can't say no.

To Harvard?

Yeah.

Well, me and mom can say no.

Catholicism to us is everything. It's the

basis of our marriage, it's the basis of our family.

So I'm nervous about the idea of Paloma

going to Harvard. We spend a lot of time nurturing

and providing

formation for our kids, giving them an environment where they

are steeped in faith and values. And so the idea of dropping

her off at a place that would undermine that or try to undo

all those things makes me worried.

And again, I don't want them to get one viewpoint.

I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints, but I don't want them fed only

one viewpoint that's contrary to the way my kids were raised.

Besides, my, my problem is we have thought about how we raised

you

and how hard we've worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable

young girl.

If I send you there,

I think what happens is they have professionalized

figuring out how they can take good young girls like you,

and I think corrupt their minds.

There are a lot of parents that feel this way,

and not only about Harvard,

but a lot of America's institutions, and they're not wrong.

A survey of Harvard professors found that only

9% of the staff identified as conservative,

and this is generally true of all of academia, which

has pretty much became Marxist. It's why the

overwhelming majority of young people graduate high school and college

as leftist, and then through life experience,

they become more right-wing.

And whether you think that's right or wrong, it's the reality of what

actually happens. But what I tell parents

is you don't have to fear your

kids going to Harvard or college and becoming indoctrinated

if you prepare them right, and you can do that by

teaching them intellectual self-defense.

So you start by giving them a classical education,

which breaks learning down into three phases, but focuses

on the process of how to think critically.

And whereas public school students have basically only learned

a fake story about the Native Americans, and that early Americans were

bad because of slavery, by fifth grade, a classically

educated student has already studied Mesopotamia, Greece,

Rome, the Middle Ages, the Vikings, the Renaissance, and

early America. So by the time they get to middle school,

let alone college, they

have the full context of 6,000 years of slavery and

understand the political climate surrounding Native Americans in

early America. Your kids know the logical fallacies

and how to

identify common manipulations made within arguments.

They've been getting back to primary documents since elementary school,

and they

have experience discerning the world around them.

The next thing you want to give them is observational

confidence. So from an early age, rather than telling them what the world

is, you want to get your children out into

nature and let them

practice observing

and discerning. Let them ask questions and learn, the same way

Leonardo da Vinci would have learned about the world.

Then you want them doing a lot of open-ended STEM problems so that they're

problem-solving. So you tell them, "We're going to throw this egg up into the

air, and you have to make something that protects it well enough so

that it doesn't

break." And science can't just be theory.

You have to teach them the science of engineering and have them building

things from a young age. And they should develop a relationship

with the

scientific method so that they have practice in testing things

for themselves rather than blindly following authority.

It's why the Harvard types in academia fell so hard for

COVID. They've been trained to believe

that truth comes from authority,

and now they have the authority of Dr. Fauci's diary.

But an 18-year-old who has been studying propaganda from COVID

to the Bolshevik Revolution simply isn't going to be as

easily manipulated as a Harvard professor.

And last, but certainly not least, is to give your

child a moral foundation. So starting in kindergarten,

our students study the history of the Bible, and we run

classes on topics like the archaeology of the Bible, because

there's nothing more important than giving your kids a solid

foundation. And any parent who does these things will

have raised an

18-year-old that is perfectly capable of handling

themselves at Harvard, and that is what I love to

help families with. Check out my private homeschool community.

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