1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 G.K. Chesterton gave an entire quarter of What's Wrong with the World to what he called the mistake about the child, and his verdict was blunt: the schoolmaster works not for the parent but against him. In this solo back-to-school episode, Joe Grabowski follows that argument through to the line Chesterton offers as the whole purpose of teaching—to pour that fiery simplicity upon the whole of life—and asks what it would take to recover the childlike wonder Chesterton insisted was education's only real aim. What's in This Episode: Why G.K. Chesterton opened What's Wrong with the World with a chapter about medicine, and what a doctor's knowledge of a healthy body has to do with schools The chapter Chesterton titled The Outlawed Parent, where he charges that the schoolmaster works against the parent rather than for him The single sentence Chesterton offers as the only real aim of education, and why it is easy to miss in a book this quotable What Chesterton meant in In Defence of Baby Worship by a new universe inside every child's head, and why it does not make him an idealist The passage in Orthodoxy where Chesterton imagines God saying &quot;do it again&quot; to the sun every morning Resources Mentioned: What's Wrong with the World Orthodoxy The Everlasting Man The Defendant Chesterton Schools Network Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 00:30: Back to school, and what education is actually for 02:29: The medical mistake, and why we stopped asking what is right 04:47: Education, or the mistake about the child 07:42: Parents standing up at school board meetings 09:33: The Chesterton Schools Network 11:59: The only real aim of education 14:18: Keeping familiarity from breeding contempt 19:08: In Defence of Baby Worship, and a new universe in every head 21:31: The delight children take in inventing words 23:48: Man the sign maker, and Walker Percy on language 26:11: The eternal appetite of infancy FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Donate Shop Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Uncommon Sense https://sites.libsyn.com/23918/site <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/42636990/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/205649400