American Thought Leaders: Mikhaila Fuller: Classical Education Is Disappearing. It’s Time to Change That (10/19/24, podcast 34 min)
Host Jan Jekielek and guest Mikhaila Peterson Fuller (daughter of famed and defamed Jordan Peterson) discuss Peterson Academy, an alternative educational model.
Key Points:
Fuller offers fascinating insights about growing up as an intensely sickly child, overcoming her own heath issues, living in the rarefied world of her father Jordan Peterson’s enlightened teaching and dedication to excellence, and finding her own path through life.
Peterson Academy is affordable, interactive, and free from political bias.
The academy focuses on basic education in history, humanities, science, math, etc.
They discuss the different professors and courses at Peterson Academy, what they are trying to achieve, and their plans for the future.
Currently, the Peterson Academy is not accredited nor does it hold in-person classes. But it’s the perfect way for those who love learning to do just that — without wokeness.
They have big plans for the future but do not intend to compromise their high standards.
“We’re getting top professors from institutions and we’re not telling them how to teach. We’re saying, ‘Teach this course if it was exactly the way you’d want to teach it, without guidelines from somebody else put on you.' And we have chosen professors carefully that don’t have a political bent. So it’s mostly trying to avoid woke ideology and politics in courses that shouldn’t necessarily be political. That’s how we’re trying to navigate it,” Fuller says.
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