From the Archive: What Is Wisdom? Why Our Schools Stopped Teaching It

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. 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And if you saw any of the media coverage about it, it's a completely different type of gathering than you would expect. First of all, we said that there's no men pretending to be women allowed at our Young Women's Leadership Summit. which shouldn't be a controversial thing to say. And of course, now we have our Educators Summit. And then coming up in a couple of weeks, our sister organization, Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida. We have we're hosting Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Dan Bongino and any presidential candidate that wants to show up. And so if you guys are looking for if you're bored in Florida, July, you want to come down to West Palm Beach, Florida. That lineup is going to make some headlines for sure. But this is one of the most important things that we're doing. I'm thrilled with Hudson's leadership and its full circle. I gave my life to the Lord. Thanks to Mrs. 00:02:44 Speaker 2: Weber. 00:02:44 Speaker 1: I still call her Mrs. Weber. You can't get over that, right? in fifth grade and really third, fourth and fifth grade set me on a trajectory for my life's work. And that's when I was at Christian Heritage Academy. I went to government school after that. So that's a really important note for some of you that are educators or parents. even if a couple years of strong education can make that foundation more than you could ever imagine. So it was third, fourth, and fifth grade at Christian Heritage Academy. Then I went to MacArthur Middle School. Some of you might be familiar with that. And then Wheeling High School, which some of you are familiar with. And they've disowned me at that school. But I am going to talk about Wheeling in a second because... There's a lot of lessons to learn there. I had a great experience there. I really did. I can't say that that school is in a good place anymore, which is too bad because the trends that we are seeing nationally, unfortunately, infected that school. I'll talk about that. But Hutz then took over Christian Heritage Academy after I left. So we kind of crossed paths. And that's how we got reconnected through a local friend of mine, Jack Vita, who's a great kid. And he connected us super energetic and the Lord connected. wanted us to work together. And we immediately hit it off. And I mean, our whole vision, our broad vision, everything we do at Turning Point, and I forgot to mention, we just had our pastor summit where we had 1,100 pastors in Nashville, the largest pastor summit of its kind. And we have another one coming up in a few weeks. We're doing all sorts of stuff. is our big picture vision is we believe firmly that Western civilization is special and unique, rooted in biblical values and ideas, and that we are called through our own obligation to do our part to try to save Western civilization. against people that want to destroy it. And this is something that not every Christian agrees with me on. Some people say, Charlie, Western society doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the government that you have. I think that's wrong. Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in. I'm not saying it's the most important thing. The most important thing is spreading the gospel. But the second most important thing is to make sure you can do the first thing. And when we lived during COVID and they deemed the church non-essential and strip clubs, liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries were essential and the church was not. And Easter and Pentecost was you weren't even allowed to go to church and you had to wear masks and be socially distanced. I said, no, something here is really, really terribly wrong. And we also must be very honest that in countries that are less free, totalitarianism is directly at odds with liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea. And so there is a place, I think, for believers to contest in this and to love the nation that you are in and also have gratitude because we do not live in a country or a civilization like any other. I think this is a I'll be very blunt, which is kind of my thing, right? I think it's hyper-entitled, upper-middle-class Christian talk if you act as if there's nothing special about America. If you kind of just scoff and you're like, oh, this country's like everything else, you know, God doesn't really care about this. I think that is a complete disrespect to the Bible-believing, courageous Christians that founded this nation, that died for this nation, that poured into the form of government, consent to the governed, checks and balances, individual liberty, independent judiciary. These are all biblical principles. The most cited book in the formation of the United States government was Deuteronomy, right? Most kids can't even spell Deuteronomy, right? And in fact, that's going to be something I'm going to talk about in a second. On the Liberty Bell, they put Leviticus on the Liberty Bell, okay? Not Psalms, not Proverbs, not John. Leviticus, proclaim liberty in the land of which you are in. And so for some people that say, oh, Charlie, there's no place for patriotic elements here. in Christian education, I disagree completely. I think that we need to contest for liberty because it's something that has an eternal ring to it. And so a couple of thoughts that I want to share with you today. Let me talk about Wheeling High School. Then I'm going to talk about something that happened yesterday on Jeopardy, which actually ties into why we are here, which I think is one of the most illuminating pieces. It's a 10 second clip. That is one of the most powerful things I have seen and why Turning Point Academy matters. My 10-second clip, Jeopardy, so I'll leave you in suspense there. But first, let me tell you about Wheeling High School. It was a great place to go to school. I say this to reporters all the time. I'm sure there are some reporters that are either... They snuck their way in. Welcome, by the way. Hope you learned something. Glad you're here. And so I mean that. We've got nothing to hide, right? We're just trying to make sure the next generation loves God and loves the country, right? Not a huge agenda here. So... These reporters sometimes challenge me because I'll say this. I said I was a minority in the high school I went to. They don't believe me. Right. Because there's kind of this archetype as if I went to Nutria. I didn't. I went to Wheeling. You guys know the difference. Right. As if I went to some sort of lily white high school. Nothing wrong with Nutria. Right. But the point is that I was a minority in the high school I went to. Fifty three percent Hispanic. English is second language. If you know Wheeling, you know the area well. And it was a great place to go to school. Right. It was like the United Nations, over 80 countries represented. And when I went to high school, no exaggeration. Nobody cared about race. Nobody cared about race. 00:07:41 Speaker 2: Right. 00:07:42 Speaker 1: We had black kids. We had Polish. We had Vietnamese. We had Japanese. We had South Africans. There was not even like a whisper of racial insensitivity where they're like stupid jokes here or there. 00:07:52 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:07:53 Speaker 1: Sixteen year olds being 16 year olds. But we all looked at each other as human beings on our sports teams, in our classrooms, in our competitions. And it was a great place to go to school, right? One state championships on marching band and debate and all this. It was a great place to go to school. And now 10 years later, that very same school is completely different. District 214 has been taken over by social, emotional learning and critical race theory. They're emphasizing race where there was no problem to begin with, where it was a school where I was always told that race doesn't matter and character matters. Now I see from the outside that race matters and character doesn't matter that much. That is not progress. That is a regression, everybody. And it pains me. I am saddened because I know what education can and should be. Were there problems where I went to high school? Yeah, there were liberal teachers. Now, who cares, right? You're going to get that in government education, right? But I can tell you that there was not the retribalization of 17- or 18-year-olds based on the melanin content of people's skin. And I can say from personal experience that it worked and it was beautiful. And that's what education should be. Now you have these academics that see racism where it doesn't exist and create it where it doesn't exist. They're literally creating more racism where these kids otherwise would not be acting in that way. And it's really a tragedy. We're seeing this happen in schools across the country. And so this has personally been a motivation for me to empower Hutz and the Turning Point Academy team Because seeing something that once worked and then see it become somewhat largely unrecognizable really pains me. And I'm sure all of you have your own personal experiences of an institution that wants to be great, once was great, and a school that wants to be great. And so I'm personally motivated to try to push back against it. 00:09:41 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans face, and that's health insurance. There's an organization I really, really appreciate called Christian Healthcare Ministries. CHM is a faith-based alternative to health insurance. And this is real stuff, folks. Like, you've got to listen in. With CHM, you're not paying into a company's profit margin. You're investing in a community with less overhead than the competition. 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It judges people based on the color of their skin, not their content. They do not believe in individual agency. They believe in societal power dynamics. It is a false assumption. It is against exactly what we're called to do in the scriptures, which is to look at people with souls. They look at people strictly as what power dynamic group that they're in. And anybody who even entertains it to a slightest degree, I think, Either doesn't mean well or they really don't know what they're doing. It could be one of the two. I think there's a lot of people that don't quite understand what they're doing. But we're seeing it happen in society, right? I mean, at Cal Berkeley, they have black only graduation ceremonies, right? At over 200 campuses now, they have black only dormitories. And we're told this is progress. Just so you know, the new racial orthodoxy is that whites should have their own areas and blacks should have their own areas. Not exactly a unique take to be like, hey, we tried to get away from that in our country. That is literally what is now being created. And if you if you challenge it, you're a racist. That is where we are. OK, second thing, let's talk about Jeopardy. So, um. Somebody asked me the other day, said, Charlie, what is the goal of Turning Point Academy? Well, there's a lot of goals. One of the most important goals is to make sure that kids are wise, not just that they know a bunch of stuff. Big difference. Most Christian education out there will not be able to clearly tell you that. You see, there's a massive contrast between modern John Dewey-centric education and a classical Christian bibliocentric education. There's a philosophical difference, and I'm going to paint some of those contrasts for you. But first, let me tell you about something I saw. If you saw it, it went viral, and if not, it's worth thinking about. So I'm a big fan of Jeopardy. I grew up watching it a lot with my grandmother. I'm okay at it. I'm not that good, right? But I'm above average. And so I was watching this clip. and you have these three brainiacs, and just to even get on Jeopardy, super hard, right? You have to compete. It's not like, hey, we randomly select you. These are very smart, credentialed people, okay? And this was like the introductory question, right? It's like a $ 200 round, right? And so they give you the answer, so you have to say the question. They basically have the Lord's Prayer, right? And All you had to do was fill in what is hallowed, right? It was a missing thing. You know, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. And you got these three brainiacs that just stare into. And they don't know. The most elementary question, right? And then you watch the full episode. They're not dumb. These are smart people, high IQ, high functioning people. And they could tell you the difference, different Greek gods. They could tell you about sub-Saharan species elimination. Right. They could tell you about climate change trends. 00:13:49 Speaker 2: Right. 00:13:50 Speaker 1: They were quoting like 60s rock songs. And but they couldn't tell you the most simple question about the Lord's Prayer. And that is a perfect example of modern education. These people are standing up there. And, yeah, they know a bunch of facts, but they have no wisdom. And there is a total difference between that. You send your kid to most colleges and most secular institutions. They will be able to recite a bunch of information. But they don't have wisdom. So what is wisdom? Wisdom is the knowledge of the things that never change. Wisdom is being able to tell the difference between good and evil. Wisdom is being able to understand the difference of what is man and God, man and nature, holy and profane. These are questions that you can't answer easily just by memorizing a bunch of stuff. It takes work to get to wisdom. Now, some of you might say, well, Charlie, you know, you can get wisdom through life experience. You can, but but there's no guarantee. And usually the only way, but you're basically telling me is that I want my kid to experience a bunch of pain to get wisdom, because that's the only way that you could get wisdom. The old fashioned way is pain. And that's fine. We should not want to shield our kids from pain, but there's a much easier way to get kids wisdom at a younger age, which is make them do the work, read the good books, spend times in the scriptures and have meaningful dialogues in the pursuit of truth. That does not happen in 99% of schools, and it doesn't happen in most Christian schools, by the way. In fact, most Christian schools are having an industrial-style, hyper-feminized model of education. Now, you might say, what do you mean hyper-feminized? Having kids sit around all day long and just read books like Little House on the Prairie is a hyper-feminist failed model of educating young boys. Boys need to move every 20 minutes and need to be involved in learning all the time. Most Christian schools, they're like, never heard of this before. Like, well, we just have, you know, kids sit single file. And that's a really good way to make sure kids suffering from ADD, they get hypermedicated at a young age, young boys, especially. It's a failed model. And yet we keep on repeating it. We're wondering, like, well, why is this generation the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol addicted, drug addicted, screen addicted in social media generation history? I don't I don't understand. Why is it that they are increasingly believing that there is no God and all this? Well, first of all, the whole premise of how we're doing education is completely flawed. If you look at Woodrow Wilson, who was, I think, America's worst president, and John Dewey, who was a terrible person, and he was the father of public education, really government education. They decided to turn the page, turn their back, I believe, all out steamroll, what founded this country, which was classical Christian education. Every major founding father was classically Christian educated. Now, what does that mean? That means they reasoned from the Bible. They studied Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They studied Aurelius. They studied Epictetus. They studied Seneca. They studied all the classics. And they first and foremost were educated in a way of you'll eventually can fill yourself with information. Do you know right from wrong and good from evil? And are you going to be able to have the temperance and the prudence to make decisions for the rest of your life? Are you going to be what Aristotle called a well-souled being? That's not a question most education even thinks about asking now. You know what they say is, well, I just want my kid to have a bunch of skills so that he could go get a job. Instead, it should be, I want my kid to be a good person. It's a much different approach. And I can say this right now. When you don't emphasize wisdom. When you don't emphasize diving deep into these ideas, then, yeah, there's a lack of morality, and that's pretty obvious. It creates an unhappy people. It also creates mass societal moral subjectivity. And you get bad politics because of that. You get this pride garbage that we're seeing in our country right now. Men can give birth, all that. It starts from a flawed educational premise. And so in modern education, they believe that kids need to be endlessly entertained. Right? Videos, movies. Classical education believes learning is an end in itself. That it's not a means, but learning is an end. That it's one of the greatest things a human being can do. Totally different. Where modern education is like learning is an inconvenience to get you to a skill set so you can make money. Whereas classical education believes that you become a joyful person when you learn. And I know that to be true and you do too. That the deeper you understand the first line of Aristotle's metaphysics is all men desire to know, yearn to know. In modern education, they say, how many times have you heard that we must equip young people for an ever-changing global economy? How many times have you read that in a silly pamphlet, right? That nauseating garbage. How about this? We must have young people to be able to have the courage and the wisdom to act against evil. That's a big difference, right? 00:19:16 Speaker 2: Allow me to ask you a quick question. When was the last time, if ever, you got a second opinion on your mortgage? Or if you're renting, have you ever wondered if owning a home might actually be more within reach than you think? 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And I say, okay, well, you know, answer, you know, a couple questions. Like, what is the premise of the school? What do they consider to be the end? And it kind of gets a little bit fuzzy at times. And there's some great Christian schools, obviously. However, the amount of Christian schools that try to fit into that modern form is alarming. And I'll give you another example. You know, parents should have to ask the question of, you know, and having a daughter now, you start asking these questions, right? Is when I'm going to choose education, what exactly is the process of That I want them to go along. So the word education in Latin literally means to lead forth, right? And actually comes from the allegory of the cave to leave forth from darkness into light. Modern education believes all viewpoints are equal. Okay. And so does some Christian schools, by the way, if you dive in like, well, we don't want to offend people. And there's a lot of good ideas out there. Properly rooted Western Christian education believes that there is a truth that And you should love the child enough to lead them on the path and the journey to get to that truth. That's completely different than believing that everybody has, you know, similar type, equal footing ideas, egalitarianism of ideas. That's really bad. And that's where you get this new modern educational model where a first grade teacher will sit around there, ask, OK, I want to hear what all of you think about what's going on in the news. Who cares what the kids have to say? Teach them something. Modern education believes old is bad. This is a built. This is one of the great cancers of our society. I fight it every day on these campuses. Right. That old is bad. It's like, oh, they didn't have airplanes when Socrates wrote. So they must have been really dumb. Or that Bible is so old, I like flipping things. I think flipping is actually one of the coolest things we have to be able to do with our reason, which is a gift from the Lord. So they say old is bad. They say, oh, it's so old, it's outdated. You could flip it into the opposite, which is true. Hey, maybe if something old is still as popular as it is, it's probably true. It's like the exact opposite, right? Maybe the thing that is thousands of years old is still the most quoted, most sourced, most foundational text. There's probably some staying power to this document. You should have humility before you dismiss it because we have Twitter and Advil and Paul the Apostle didn't, right? Like, oh, wow, he wasn't very advanced, which gets down to an even more fundamental thing. And I'm happy to say that at most Turning Point training events, I think 90% of our kids get this question right, but we're not at 100%. We just had a Texas training, and most kids got the question right, some didn't. And the kids that didn't were Christian-educated, right? And it was a very simple question, which is, are human beings naturally good or are they naturally bad, right? And the Christian kids thought they were naturally good, which goes to show that whatever school they go to should be shut down and burned to the ground, right? LAUGHTER Not a hard question to answer, right? And they meant well. They said, their reasoning was like, well, God is good and God made us. Not good theology, right, at all. Missing a big part of the story, including everything after the fall, which is basically a flaming tragedy until Christ comes, right? Lying, rebellion, cheating, stealing, arson, war, lying, rebellion, cheating, stealing, arson, war, Christ, right? It's just after the other. So... Are human beings naturally good or naturally bad? This is an incredibly important question. Classical education believes human beings are rotten. Modern education believes human beings are great. Why does that matter? Because if you believe human beings are great, then what do you have to teach them? Just some skills, but you also then have to motivate them to be activists against what is bad, which is the system. Because then they have to explain evil, and the way that modern educators explain evil is racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, climate change. External, external, external, not you. External, not you. Classical education believes that, no, you're the problem, and you've got a lot of work to do. You've got to learn self-control, you've got to learn gratitude, you've got to learn humility, you've got to learn temperance, and you've got to do it over and over and over and over and over again. The way education should operate is. 00:25:48 Speaker 1: Education used to be where we used to tell young people, you're the problem and America is great. Now in modern education, we say that you're great and America is the problem. The self-esteem thing is a pile of anti-biblical garbage that has come into our schools. And most Christians don't have the courage to say it because they want to be nice. I don't care about being nice. I care about being true or telling the truth. And I think self-esteem actually increases suicide. I think self-esteem actually creates really bad behavior. And I'll prove it to you. There was this poster at Wheeling High School, and this was one of my big debates I had. You're perfect the way you are. And I remember going up to a teacher. I said, if I'm perfect the way I am, why are we in school? Why are we doing homework? Instead, the proper message should be you're not all yet. You could be completely different. One is about a journey of eventually reaching a destination through hard work, sacrifice, and discipline. The other one is this affirmation as if you've completed your path in the ninth grade. That's not even fair to the kid, right? It puts all this pressure on them. And so the question of is a human being naturally good or naturally bad is one of the most important questions an educator can ask. Because then, as a society, you must explain why is there all this crumminess happening? I think the answer is pretty simple, because you believe the raw material we're dealing with post the fall is pretty awful. So you must teach goodness. You must teach right. And you must do it repeatedly. And when challenged, the postmodernists who control the education system, you could tell that most of them don't have kids. Because when you have kids, you realize that they're very sweet, but they do things you did not teach them. That they got from somewhere. Such as, it's about me. And I ask this to parents. We haven't had this phenomenon yet, but I can't wait. It's going to be great. Of a kid turning one parent against the other. Manipulation. Was there like a manipulation seminar where you sat that kid down? Here's how you do it. You game them here and you do it here? Or is it kind of just like instinctive? Is it automatic for a two-year-old absent education to say thank you? No. Gratitude has to be repeatedly reminded, incentivized, and then demanded. Because you're not naturally grateful people. 00:28:24 Speaker 2: I talk about jobs and industries on this show all the time, but I didn't expect to find an entire skills trade community on TikTok. Plumbers, electrician, builders, and contractors sharing the work they do every day. And it went way beyond tips and tricks. People were sharing their craft, connecting with local contractors, and talking about how they were building their businesses and growing their teams. 00:28:46 Speaker 1: It opened my eyes. 00:28:47 Speaker 2: To how people in the trades are using TikTok to share their skills, make connections, and find new opportunities. I remember thinking, this is exactly what we need more of, people sharing what they know and creating opportunities for others. And I never expected to find a community like this that's the thing about TikTok. You start with something you know, and suddenly you're finding a whole new side of it that surprises you and leaves you wanting to know more. Your next discovery is waiting for you on TikTok. Learn more at TikTok.com slash discover more. 00:29:17 Speaker 1: And I'll prove it to you further. And they reject the scriptures, the modernists. But I love the book of Exodus, one of my favorite books of the Bible. Incredibly wise for a variety of reasons. And I think there's so much to learn from Sinai and from human nature and tyranny, which I think a lot of what we're living through right now, actually, Exodus speaks to. So God delivers his chosen people after incredible anticipation. right? Ten plagues, the whole thing. They're in the desert for like a couple days, mind you. This is not even like years, okay? Blows quail, of course, manna from heaven, the whole deal, right? They wanted for nothings with the scriptures. They weren't hungry. They weren't all this. And then they start yammering. Send me back to Egypt. We want to go. Who is this Moses guy? Who does he think he is? We want to go back to Egypt where we were slaves. Because at least we had meat. Ungrateful. Another favorite line in the book of Exodus, which is everything we are living through. It's the turning point of the whole, get it, turning point of the whole book of Exodus, which is great. Because everything is going in kind of this post-Genesis, Genesis 12, you know, history starts. Abram, you're a bum, get up, leave your dad's house, right? Boom, all of a sudden history starts, right? And we get all the way to Joseph, and then... Genesis ends, Exodus begins, and there's this incredible line where everything changes. And then there was a king, it says king, but Pharaoh is fine, who rose to power who did not know Joseph. And that was all of a sudden everything changed. So what did he mean by that? Joseph saved Egypt from annihilation. Well, God did, but he interpreted the dreams. And that's very important. Joseph never took credit for it. He said it's God who's giving him the power. Pharaoh was like, yeah, I have no memory of that. And he became a tyrannical maniac. I could replace it by saying, and then came a generation who did not know George Washington. And then came a generation who did not know Abraham Lincoln. That's what you're living through. Whole book of Exodus, the tyranny, gods, started with a pharaoh, a king, being like, meh, who cares if we are, I don't know, who's the Joseph guy? Why do we have all these people here again? Who are these Hebrews? Why do they take Saturdays off? It's really weird. Turn them into slaves. Just like that. If you do not have a memory of what came before, tyranny is going to come. And then you get into Exodus 20, right? God's covenant with his people continues. Ten Commandments, which if everybody has followed the Ten Commandments, it's actually more than Ten Commandments. That's a separate issue. Because it really is. There's a lot. For example, you need to work six days. There's a lot there. It could be anywhere between 12 to 14, depending on how you read it. But The first is the first sentence is super important, right? For I am the Lord. Remember, I am the Lord, your God who delivered you from Egypt in case you morons forgot. You know, when I parted the sea and the quail, of course, and the man, a thing and all this. I'm the God that delivered you from slavery. And, of course, they do forget and they do the golden calf because that's human nature, which is rebellion and ingratitude. And that's who we are. But the one that I do want to make sure I emphasize of the Ten Commandments is the only one that involves our nation and involves a promise. The only one. Honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in. And everything that modern secular education aims to do, intentionally or unintentionally, is to break the bond between a parent and a child. It is directly against that commandment. Totalitarians need to make families strangers. They need to make moms and kids foreign to one another. Strong families are the greatest threat to totalitarianism. When Stalin took power in Russia, he taught everyone that your true mother is Mother Russia, the Russian government. In Mao's China, the first thing he did was enlist the Little Red Guard and pay kids and reward kids with candy to turn in parents to the gulag. And that same generation is now running the Chinese Communist Party in China. What do parents also do? Parents have a memory of things before. That's why it says, honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in. And that word honor literally means heavy, to treat your parents heavily, to treat that relationship not lightly. So the word in Hebrew heavily and honor are the same word and light and curse is the same word. So if you were to treat them lightly, you were to curse them. It's the same root in biblical Hebrew. And if you send your kid to Deerfield High School, no offense, there will be an overt or subversive campaign to ruin that bond. So that's why we're here. We're here because you're educators, because you guys have roles that have influence. Some of you are in government schools. Some of you are in private schools. Some of you guys are in home schools. We need to continue this education revolution. We're here to partner with others. So many organizations doing great work. We need more. More is more is more. And I could tell you that we need to go on a rescue mission right now for the kids of this country that are currently being held hostage by this godless, secular situation that we find ourselves in. We need to rescue those kids because there are so many great kids out there and parents that might mean well that have them in these just terrible institutions. And we see the result, right? The result is just terrible. But there's a better... deeper way to educate the next generation. We know it works. When you do it right, you get leaders that you make statues to. When you do it wrong, you get people that want to take statues down. In the founding generation, there were about what we called 15 to 20 game changers, right? John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Gubiner Morris, you could go through the whole list, right? George Mason. All classically Christian educated, every single one of them. The question is, where are the game changers right now in America? You have to be sowing into that. And I know some of you as Christians, you say, sorry, it seems so overwhelming. You know, the odds are stacked against us. You cannot engage. You have to do your duty to the divine as an obligation, as a form of worship, regardless of how the odds are stacked against you. And so I'm incredibly hopeful. I'm hopeful because homeschooling has multiplied in recent years. And we're going to keep on doing this. I'm hopeful because I really think people are finally starting to wake up in a very serious way. I think Christians are really starting to see the spiritual dimension of what's going on. I certainly pray that's the case. And we're seeing a hunger, an appetite, a desire. to educate kids in the proper way, in the way that is proven and biblical, not in this secular, industrialized model that does not enrich the soul of the student. So that's what we're here to do. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.