Dr. Joseph Lazilotti on the Sex Difference in Education

HeightsCast: Forming Men Fully Alive · Jun 26, 2025 · 1h 3m

Months ago, Heights teacher Joe Lanzilotti took up a prodigious project: reviewing the body of popular literature on boys' education.

Partway through his journey, Dr. Lanzilotti catches us up on the diversity of scientific, biological, psychological, and moral perspectives—and how they cohere into a bigger picture of boys and where their developmental needs differ from those of girls. Framing the evidence with papal guidance from the last century gives us a solid starting-point to consider the education of boys according to their nature.

Chapters:

00:04:09 The timeline of research on boys…