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Physical Education: Patrick Whalen with Iliad Athletics
Guest: Patrick Whalen, Founder of Iliad Athletics — former Marine infantry officer, founding headmaster of St. Martin’s Academy, and father
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why a serious physical encounter with reality is a necessary prerequisite for almost any other educational work and what schools are losing when they neglect the body
- Why parents are the most decisive factor in a child’s physical formation and what basic stewardship of the body actually looks like at home
- The two-pronged approach to physical formation: everyday habit-building routines and big anchor experiences and the…
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