Education Without Indoctrination: Can It Exist? Stephen Blackwood, John Vervaeke & David Butterfield
Ralston College Humanities MA: www.ralston.ac/humanities-ma
Stephen Blackwood is the founding President of Ralston College, with advanced degrees in Classics and Religion and visiting positions at Harvard, Toronto, and Cambridge.
David Butterfield is a renowned Classicist based at the University of Cambridge, and Editor of the Classics website Antigone. His work centres on the critical study of classical texts and their survival from antiquity.
John Vervaeke, PhD, is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto.
What are the fundamental principles required to cultivate an educational environment free from ideological bias?
In this episode, Stephen Blackwood, David Butterfield, and John Vervaeke explore the current landscape of higher education and its pervasive ideological influences. They discuss the importance of fostering genuine freedom of inquiry, intellectual diversity, and non-coercive teaching practices. Through personal anecdotes and reflections on academic experiences, the conversation examines the conditions that make real dialogue and meaningful education possible. This episode challenges listeners to reconsider the essence of true education and its role in developing critical, independent thinkers.
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00:00 Introduction and Exploring Education Without Indoctrination
02:20 Defining Indoctrination in Education
05:25 Current State of Higher Education
09:05 Neo-Marxism and Power Dynamics in Education
16:30 Teaching and Parenting: Fostering Realization and Free Agency
26:05 John Vervaeke:Exploring Logos, Love, and the Meaning Crisis
35:35 The Dual Aspects of Free Speech: Good Faith and Inquiry
38:30 Audience Q&A: Handling Classroom Dynamics and Approaches
53:45 Conclusion: University Traditions and Political Orientations
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Authors, Ideas, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Jefferson
Martha Argerich
Descartes
Jordan Peterson
Education without Indoctrination
Freedom of Speech
The New Criterion
Meaning Crisis
Dialectic into Dialogos
The Vervaeke Foundation
Re-Humanising Education By Stephen Blackwood and Bernadette Guthrie - ARC Research www.arc-research.org/research...
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Additional Resources
Dr Stephen Blackwood
www.stephenjblackwood.com/
Dr Butterfield on the crisis in the Humanities
thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-...
Ralston College (including newsletter)
www.ralston.ac/
Support a New Beginning
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Ralston College Humanities MA
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These are veritable intellectuals who are bringing great things to higher education. Thank you, Stephen Blackwood and Ralston College!
John is a breath of fresh air to have encountered
@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
11 күн бұрын
Even though he is a thoroughly-indoctrinated LEFTIST.
Well said John. Probably one of the best summaries I’ve heard of the meaning crisis. Logos and love.
Thank you for this conversation. Greetings from Poland
Thank you for such a wonderful conversation. I will love to collaborate with you at Ralston, by subtitling this video to Spanish and Portuguese if you let me.
Thankyou for this. Much wisdom evident. Wisdom is impossible to indoctrinate into people..
This was a fantastic discussion.
Is this on Spotify and Apple podcasts?
Get more comfortable chairs
@Wingedmagician
15 күн бұрын
hey it works and its looks interesting
Vervaeke is the one who doesn't just "show that" indoctrination has overtaken education and why, but "how" to actually do it again
@Silent-Speaker
12 күн бұрын
Please explain
Also you can't really fix university education without fixing k to 12 education.
Cambridge has fallen
Education ∝ Public Schooling. Certification ≠ competence
Those stools look like the most uncorfortable thing ever!!
*All* K-12 teachers think they are all activist teachers who are supposed to be teaching activist kids? Propaganda says this is the case, but it is more likely that that is it--propaganda. There are certainly outliers, and, maybe it is more of a problem in blue states, but I'd say most teachers just want kids to know the subjects. Who develops the curriculum for the teachers?
@gemox3225
Күн бұрын
Yes this is a very good question. I'm an American teacher now living in Thailand. I recently saw a book about racism in America here in a bookstore in Thailand. It was basically just full of anti white rhetoric. It looked like a k to 12 text and was written by a black American author. This just gives you an idea how pervasive such toxic ideas are. Who produces such things and how are books chosen as k to 12 texts? This definitely needs investigation.