# 300

 

A couple of days ago (today is 8/6/2023) Dennis Prager sat down with Marissa Streit, the CEO of Prager U, and they held a conversation for the 300^th episode of the Fireside Chat.

 

Marissa talked about how Prager U is now available—or soon will be--in public schools in some red states. That is wonderful news.

 

I want to quote some highlights from the 38-minute conversation and comment on them.

 

A.   Prager commented that he is astounded that kids that are home-schooled are as a rule more wholesome, grateful, and not jaded, in compared to the kids attending public school: angry, bitter, cynical, ungrateful, and tainted. In public schools without God and values taught, those kids are harmed by their lack of training.

 

The two of them commented that schools should teach knowledge and values, not training kids to be indoctrinated into being change-agents hating America and its traditional culture.

 

God, in a generic and small extent, should be mentioned in public schools, but knowledge and values should be taught for sure, and parents need to ride herd on what teachers and administrators are doing to their kids. Even better would be to home-school one’s kids.

 

B.    Dennis makes the true point that criticizing Leftism automatically means that the secularists and Progressives label the critic as right-wing, likely fascist, racists and xenophobic.

 

It would be better for Leftists to hear and respond to criticisms point by point calmly and respectfully without the ad hominem name-calling and accusations about the critic’s motives.

 

Most critics are conservative but not right-wing, and many are liberals of integrity and intellectual independence.

 

C.    Dennis criticizes Leftists for denouncing all nationalism There is good nationalism and bad nationalism, and by implication, America is a good country so loving America, being proud to be a patriotic American is an expression of good nationalism.

 

We do not want global elites pushing one-world Marxist government as an alternative to nationalism.

 

D.   Marissa points out that their program for kids lifts them up, turning the kids into happy, grateful kids, whereas Leftist public schools sponsor a program of education that tears kids down, creating angry, unhappy kids.

 

I would add that egoism, maverization and individualism lift people up, but altruism, nonindividuating and groupism tears people down, and that latter outcome is unfortunate.