We’ve all heard it said, and maybe even said it ourselves: “I don’t want to tell my kids what to think, but how to think.” Is that possible? What is indoctrination, and is it always bad? Indoctrination has a negative connotation in society today, but what if that’s only so parents refrain from teaching their…
Last year we talked with Susan Wise Bauer about recovering a classical education for ourselves. Her book The Well-Educated Mind guides anyone through the most important works of the Great Conversation. At the time, we wondered aloud if anyone had actually taken Susan up on her proposed reading plan. A listener reached out with her…
In the heated cultural climate of today, a true conversation with real thinking behind arguments can be hard to find. Alan Jacob’s book How to Think explains why that is so and how to overcome the modern (or postmodern) hindrances to thought and contemplation. Jacobs doesn’t, in the end, tell us “how to think.” But…
