Educating for Virtue
Educating for Virtue
Jeff Robertson
Education is Virtue Formation. It isn't about college readiness or being prepared to work at a cubicle for 40 hours per week until you're able to draw Social Security. It's about living as a man or woman made in God's image, stewarding God's gifts, doing God's work, living in God's world, and worshipping him all along the way.
14 - Trust and Mobility
high trust society upward mobility
Feb 17, 2022
12 min
13 - History of Grading 1
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
Jan 20, 2022
20 min
12 - Public School Cultivates Followers, not Leaders
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
Jan 18, 2022
24 min
11 - Rulers and "Personality"
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
Jan 13, 2022
29 min
10 - Humans as Lords
humans as image bearers multiply, fill, and subdue humans as lords and leaders profile of leaders
Jan 11, 2022
17 min
09 - The Inevitability of Habits
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.
Dec 8, 2021
21 min
08 - The Gap in Results and Expectation
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. 
Dec 6, 2021
21 min
07 - On Training
principles for training in education James Clear's Atomic habits https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299
Dec 4, 2021
10 min
06 - Different examples of Virtue
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
Dec 2, 2021
15 min
05 - Fathers, Train and Instruct your children in the Lord
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.
Nov 20, 2021
23 min
Load more