Educating for Virtue

high trust society upward mobility

The impact of small habits over time school policies and habits grading policy and the cultivation of habit history of grades William Farrish and the beginning of grades in the late 18thC Grades as proxies for trust

profile of a leader leadership as responsibility and authority public school education cultivates closed-mindedness, short-term thinking, an extreme form of agreeableness or niceness, and neuroticism  Origins of public education and the industrial revolution industrialists' ideals' impact on education

Humans are made for dominion  Personality as kinds of people Rulers, leaders, dominion-takers as a particular "kind" of person Big Five Personality Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism General tendencies of these traits in good leaders

humans as image bearers multiply, fill, and subdue humans as lords and leaders profile of leaders

Habit training is inevitable. The question is not whether we will practice habits, but which habits we will practice. There is a danger in assuming that habits are not being practiced as long as we are not intentionally working on them. Habits are strengthening regardless of whether our focus is on them.

When building habits, our actions are not easy. We expect our actions, which are painful, to produce results. But, those results do not follow the same curve as our expectations. The key is to have habits that are simple enough to limit your expectations for results until you actually begin to see results. 

principles for training in education James Clear's Atomic habits https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299

desire - Do we want what God wants? What Christ wants? Desire the kingdom first and foremost emotion - Do we respond the way Christ responds? Responding with joy, peace, patience, anger, disgust, etc --both positive and negative emotions-- like Christ does intellect - Do our thought-patterns reflect Christ's? intellectual humility, analysis, contemplation Strength - What do our bodies have to do with being the right kind of person? strength, speed, posture social/friendship/leadership - Do we treat others the ways Christ treats others? speaking with volume, eye contact, deference, goodwill

Education is for fathers and families, not the state training and instructing; teaching what to know and how to do; science and art "in the Lord" - love the Lord with all your Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength, and love your neighbor as yourself heart - cardia - desire soul - psyche - emotion  mind - intellect - thoughts strength - body - physicality neighbor - social - interpersonal, communication, business, etc.

Psychology, personalities, and virtue Growth vs fixed mindset 19th century attempts at godless materialism across various fields Using personality to excuse character flaws

Virtue - Habits toward the good; habits toward the Ideal Habits are inclinations, biases, and tendencies that are hard to acquire and hard to lose The Ideal man (the virtuous man or "manly" man) seems to do good and right things by second nature Virtue is the mean between two vices Vices of excess and lack Courage is a virtue; cowardice is to lack virtue; rashness is to have courage in excess Virtue and virtuous action and context

Virtue Ethics - defining goodness by the ideal Christ as the Ideal The use of the Law as a tutor Virtues are characteristics of the Ideal Man, or "manliness"

Education is the Cultivation of the Right Kind of Person Defining the Right Kind of Person Ethics: Goodness defined by laws (deontology), results (consequentialism), and the Ideal (virtue ethics)

In this episode, I introduce the nature and purpose of this podcast.