E is for Education

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Mar 5, 2026 · 37m

In this episode of Preschool Pioneers, Jeremy Walker challenges the modern assumption that education is mainly about learning facts, arguing instead that all education is fundamentally religious and moral because it forms a child’s worldview, loyalties, and character. Drawing from R. J. Rushdoony’s The Messianic Character of American Education, he explains how government schooling historically advanced a humanistic “salvation through education” project that reshaped America’s beliefs over time, while warning that even alternative approaches like homeschooling can drift into humanism when they…