The Real Purpose of Your Child’s Education | Season 2 Favorites

Ask most people what school is for, and they'll say it's about getting into a good college and landing a well-paying job. But Liz Caddow, founder and head of school at Trinity Classical Academy, says school is really about who our children are becoming. In these highlights from our full conversation with her, she shares the advice she now gives mothers of teenage sons, explains how education forms the whole child—heart, mind and soul—and reflects on what our children lose when we step in to rescue them.

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Episode Recap:

• Today we're talking with Liz Caddow about why school is about more than what our children are learning. (0:00)
• What does it mean to think of education as formation? (0:54)
• What is virtue, and what does it have to do with schooling? (3:03)
• What advice does Liz give parents of junior high and high school boys? (5:11)
• What does it look like for a dad to take the lead with his son? (6:20)
• Why is it so hard to let our children fail? (6:55)

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