#770: The Western Canon Belongs To Your Child with Chapter House

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:07) **The Chapter House Origin Story** - Josh and Hannah Centers explain the frustration that led them to start a publishing company: the poor quality of print-on-demand and digital copies of classic children’s books.
• 2 (04:15) **Why Old Stories Still Work** - A personal anecdote about their five-year-old daughter learning from the myth of Icarus, demonstrating how children internalize virtue without explicit lectures.
• 3 (05:16) **Unlearning Public School Methods** - Hannah, a former 13-year classroom teacher, describes the difficult transition from a rigid, bell-to-bell schedule to the flexible, flow-based discipline of homeschooling.
• 4 (07:27) **The Problem with "Fiat Education"** - The hosts draw a parallel between fiat money and modern standardized testing, arguing that both create a "spreadsheet brain" that values metrics over true understanding.
• 5 (12:42) **Why a Publishing Company, Not Just a Blog** - The decision to start Chapter House was driven by a desire for physical quality and historic preservation, not just a reading list.
• 6 (15:30) **What Is Education For?** - The core purpose of education, according to the guests, is the formation of virtue and character, not just the transmission of facts.
• 7 (18:54) **Virtue vs. Obedience** - The distinction between a child who behaves because they are watched and one who acts virtuously because they have internalized the principle.

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