Further Insight on TJEd

From A Thomas Jefferson Education, by Oliver DeMille:
"Professional training and job skills are all thatpeople seek from “education,” and the concept of leadership educationis considered quaint, outdated, frivolous, or absurd."  "Teaching, not education, should be our focus,3 because greatteaching inspires students to educate themselves."
"Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the onlytrue educators. Historically, every other method of education hasfailed. Education occurs when students get excited about learningand apply themselves; students do this when they experiencegreat teachers."
"Without great teaching, through mentors and classics, the mostthat schools can offer is socialization, which they often defend asthough it were the primary objective of learning"
"Schools were historically created by parents to allow greatteachers—mentors and classics—to inspire students to seeklearning and then guide students on their path to a quality education.Then schools were attacked by political agendas from bothsides: Conservatives felt that the expense of education should bejustified by training students for the job market, and Liberals sawschools as a perfect place to gain support for social agendas rangingfrom civil rights to environmentalism."
"...I have learned that all education boils down to twothings: the student putting in the work to educate himself, andthe teacher getting the student’s attention long enough and deeplyenough to get him started and help him keep going."
Part of TJEd is being educated as an adult to pass it on.  If you didn't learn it as a child (which I would say 95% of us did not) it is an opportune time to learn it!  It's never too late to be a Scholar and a Statesman.