Episode 71: On Outdoor Education

Dr. Bourgeois and Mr. Miller address one of the more ancient forms of education as well as a new wave in educational thought - outdoor education. They discuss the traits and merits as well as the challenges in applying it to the current American public school model of outdoor education.

Just finished a hike or a week-long camping trip where you taught your children to survive if they were ever abandoned in a desert - your own form of outdoor education? Then, an intellectual deep-dive into the modern education system and its problems might be just for you. Check out The Center Cannot Hold: A Critical Look at Contemporary Education found exclusively through amazon.com. 

What is The Old School?

Dr. Steven Bourgeois and Mr. Ross Miller lead an informal discussion between a current and a former teacher on topics that challenge "best practices" in contemporary education. In keeping with Neil Postman (1979), we support the conserving function of education: “Its aim at all times is to make visible the prevailing biases of a culture and then, by employing whatever philosophies of education are available, to oppose them.”