1340: Fatherhood, Parenting, Home Schooling & Religion with Ben & Jessa Greenfield

I personally think, 100 years from now, we're gonna look back and laugh at about the past 60 years or so of education that we've tried to hang on to the threads of. [It's] all based off the Agricultural Revolution and the design of factory workers. It's laughable. I really don't anticipate that model sticking around much longer.

You can disagree all you want. The statistics are clear ... Children raised without fathers are many, many times more likely to end up in all the terrible situations—everything from prison to drug abuse to suicide.

If you have breakfast for dinner on Tuesday night where dad makes eggs and waffles every Tuesday night for eight years of their childhood, they're gonna remember that more than any random trip to Vegas where you blew $1,000 on the whole family at dinner at a Japanese restaurant.

I think the reason that homeschooling has become more popular is multifactorial, but a big one is technology ... The ease of being able to find information, find teachers, find tutors [and] have that be scalable and affordable has made it so that you can homeschool anyone anywhere in the world.

Once science becomes absolute truth, you are on a very slippery slope towards an absence of morality because there is no consideration of whether something is right or wrong; it's just whether something is true or false.

There's a lot of data out there about how people who are churchgoers tend to have reduced risk of all-cause mortality.

Gratitude lowers blood pressure, improves sleep, increases empathy, [and] increases self-control.