The beauty of Math is that it is Truth. Math always was, even before we humans observed it. Humility and courage are required in learning and exercising our understanding of mathematics.
Behind every cheerful person is not vapidness or superficiality, rather, it is a great rebellion against the darkness and requires great strength and courage.
How caterpillar-to-butterfly evolved step-by-step:
Step 1: DNA mutation causes caterpillar to turn into goo in a shell.
Step 2: It died.
Since the DNA wasn't there yet to turn it into a butterfly, that's the end of the tale.
There is no evolutionary mechanism that can possibly explain why a caterpillar would turn to goo in a shell and reform into a completely different creature.
ALL the genetic instructions for how to do that must be programmed into the caterpillar's DNA from the beginning, or it doesn't work.
This is but one glaring example of how evolution cannot build complex biological systems.
Life demands Design.
The average student graduates after 12 years of schooling and still cannot answer the most important questions in life.
What is a good man?
What is justice?
What is worth sacrificing for?
What is beauty?
What is truth?
What is the purpose of life?
Classical education begins with the assumption that any education failing to address these questions is not really education at all.
People keep saying the future of work is a world where work disappears or becomes optional (@elonmusk says this). But they’re missing something fundamental.
Do you know what is real work? Like seriously hard freaking work that isn’t going away?
Forming children. Shaping the next generation.
There are no shortcuts to that. No hacks. No automation. The work of real education and formation is slow, demanding, and deeply human. It requires presence, attention, sacrifice, and love.
And there is no AI’ing your way out of it.
The people who think AI will fundamentally disrupt education already don’t understand what education actually is. In many cases, they’re already participating in something that wouldn’t even be recognizable as education to any previous generation.
Education is not the transfer of information. It is the formation of the person.
It is about teaching young people to love what is true, good, and beautiful. It is about shaping their affections to love righteousness and to hate what is wicked.
No machine can do that. Real labor, hard freaking work is required, and if you’re doing it right it’s gonna hurt.
I posted earlier today and later removed it after some backlash.
I want to be clear that I am not opposed to the idea of public education. There are real gems within the system, schools where gifted teachers are introducing students to the right kind of content and forming them in moral character as well as intellect. I went to public school, my mom taught in public schools, I taught in public schools for 10 years and three in inner city in New York at Progress High School.
At the same time, it would be dishonest to pretend that American public education is not in a state of deep crisis. In Chicago, only 18% of students can do math at grade level. In New York City, the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress “the Nation’s Report Card” show that 71% of eighth graders are not proficient in reading and 77% are not proficient in math.
These are not partisan talking points. They are facts.
And the crisis is not only academic. It is also moral. The two are always connected.
Education has never been merely the transfer of information. It is fundamentally about the formation of the soul. Virtues such as honesty, diligence, discipline, humility, and perseverance are not optional extras; they are the very conditions that make real learning possible. A student who has not been taught to love truth will eventually cheat. A student who has not been formed in discipline will struggle to master difficult material. A student who has not been taught humility will never submit himself to the long process of learning from those who know more.
For centuries the great educational traditions of the West understood this clearly. They aimed not simply to produce skilled workers but to form wise and virtuous human beings.
When moral formation disappears, academic excellence inevitably follows it out the door. When students are taught that truth is relative, that effort is optional, and that character does not matter, we should not be surprised when test scores collapse.
If we want to restore academic excellence in America, we must recover the deeper purpose of education itself: the cultivation of virtue, the love of beauty, greatness of heart and mind.
The stakes could not be higher, if we do not recover this kind of education (the same kind of education 100% of America’s founders received) then our Republic is over.
Why do we do math in school?
When I asked this question as a kid, my teachers always told me, "You'll use it one day."
That's almost always false.
Most adults are never going to be in a sticky situation with two binomials, thinking, thank goodness I can FOIL my way out of this mess. Most of us get by just fine without ever solving for x again.
And especially in an Al age, fewer and fewer people will
"use math" in the narrow, practical sense.
But the origins of math have never been primarily about utility.
Math is formative. It trains the mind to love what is true, to recognize what is orderly, and to be drawn toward what is beautiful. It teaches us that the universe is not chaos, but something intelligible, something structured, something that can be known.
And you can see that truth made visible in the world's most breathtaking churches and cathedrals: arches, vaults, domes, proportions, symmetry, harmony, light-geometry turned into glory. The mathematics that shapes a cathedral is not cold or sterile. It's the language of wonder, carved into stone.
We don't teach math because everyone will use it.
We teach math because it forms the kind of person who can see that reality has meaning.
Today marks Fibonacci Day (11/23), a date that reflects the famous numerical sequence 1, 1, 2, 3.
This sequence appears in mathematics, nature, architecture, and many scientific phenomena, reminding us of the elegance and order underlying complex systems.
I need a dance party that starts at 5pm and I can bring my children to. Do you have any idea how much my children love dancing? It's ridiculous that the only occasion where adults and kids can dance together are weddings
The ART of the DEBATE. Charlie was the master. Respectful disagreement. Some humor. Opposing viewpoints, but Charlie compliments how the student articulated, then gives him facts. He was brilliant…
Less than 2 hours before he was shot, Charlie Kirk opened up about one of his favorite verses in the Bible, declaring that God is working all things towards an ultimate good.
"One of my favorite verses though, is Romans 8:28, which says that God works all things for good for those who love Him."
"It's a very freeing and liberating verse for those of us that are Christians, because we believe that when things can be really bad, God is working it for His good."
The footage was taken at a 'Restaurant Tour' event in Salt Lake City at 11:07 am, according to the original poster.
Charlie was preaching about his faith in Jesus Christ up until his last breath.
He is in a much better place.
Video: ruble.mp3 / tt
As founder of the fastest-growing standardized test in America, I’ll say it plainly: homeschool, Christian, and classical charter school students are at least two years ahead of their public school peers. It’s not even close.