Wyoming congressional candidate Steve Friess, who co-founded the Jackson Hole Classical Academy, explains the heart of classical education: developing reasoning through the Socratic method, public speaking, and even the study of Latin, rather than handing students a doctrine to accept. In this clip from The Jenny Beth Show, he shares the moment his ten-year-old son read a Latin inscription over an archway in Krakow, and makes the case that ordered thinking is a lifelong skill that helps young people evaluate everything they later hear from government and social media.
Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, contrasts it with a public school system she says too often teaches students to think inside a very narrow box.
Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com. Steve Friess is running for Congress in Wyoming, learn more at friessforwy.com.
00:00 — Why classical education appealed to them
00:38 — Learning how to think, not what to think
01:10 — The Socratic method and the study of Latin
02:35 — A 10-year-old reading Latin in Krakow
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