Can Education Save Civility?
“A refugee from the federal government,” Alexandra grew up in a home that prioritized politeness and viewed education as a lifestyle. Yet when she began working for the U.S. Department of Education, Alexandra soon discovered that her coworkers used politeness for corruption and also didn’t care about education. How can civility save our nation?
Politeness vs. Civility
In this conversation, Alexandra Hudson, award-winning journalist, speaker, and author discusses:
- her disillusionment with the Department of Education
- how to respect someone while sharing hard truths
- the difference between politeness and civility
- why we need less politeness and more civility in the world
- why the left and right don’t share the same vision
- not living a boxed life
- how incivility hurts both others and ourselves
- how one individual can start a quiet revolution that can change the world
- how the classical model of education can be used to teach future generations the art of being civil.
Robert Bortins is the CEO of Classical Conversations® and the host of Refining Rhetoric. The company has grown from supporting homeschoolers in about 40 states to supporting homeschoolers in over 50 countries and has become the world’s largest classical homeschooling organization under his guidance.