Recent Podcast Interviews:
February 23, 2024: In Search of Wisdom - The Character Lab Ep. 1 with Shane Trotter
April 13, 2023: In Search of Wisdom - Rediscovering Rites of Passage
February 9, 2023: The Strong Stoic Podcast - Shane Trotter: Problems in Our Education System
October 5, 2022: A Dad’s Path Podcast - Setting the Bar: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive…
September 21 & 28, 2022: About Mansfield Podcast - Shane Trotter Part 1 & Shane Trotter Part 2
August 29, 2022: The Strong Stoic Podcast - Shane Trotter: History
June 1, 2022: In Search of Wisdom - The Wisdom of Standards with Shane Trotter
May 3, 2022: The Walled Garden - Overcoming Human Devolution with Shane Trotter
March 22, 2022: The Optimistic Curmudgeon - Shane Trotter: Setting the Bar to Fix Education
February 27, 2022: Talking to Teens #179 - Are We Setting Kids Up to Fail?
February 9, 2022: The Strong Stoic Podcast - Shane Trotter: Barbarian Virtues, Strength, & Love
January 30, 2022: The Charles Love Show - Shane Trotter Setting the Bar
November 9, 2021: The We Turned Out Okay Podcast - How are you living your life?
November 3, 2021: The About Mansfield Podcast - Shane Trotter Interview
October 17, 2021: Sam Sorbo Podcast - Remedial Education for All
October 1, 2021: Tests and the Rest Podcast - Where Modern Education Fails
Guiding Quotes
On These Days.
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
—Sebastian Junger
“We have never been more in the thrall of human nature and its destructive potential than now, and by ignoring this fact we are playing with fire. The permeability of our emotions has only been heightened by social media where viral effects are continuously sweeping through us and where the most manipulative leaders are able to exploit and control us…. The potential for mayhem, stemming from the primitive side of our nature has only increased.”
—Robert Greene
On Better Culture and Education.
“Democracy remains viable only if we are willing to extend to one another a presumption of individual competence.”
—Matthew Crawford
On Parenting.
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
– George Santayana