Real Education vs. The Department of Education
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Who is Dr. Larry Arnn and why is Hillsdale College significant?
Hey everybody, my conversation with the president of America's greatest college, Hillsdale College, Dr. Larry Arnn. Check out charlieforhillsdale.com, that is C-H-A-R-L-I-E forhillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com. We talk about Churchill, education, the Department of Education, and more. This is a conversation worth listening to and sending to your friends. Again, it is America's greatest college, charlieforhillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Okay, everybody, we are here with one of my mentors and teachers, Dr. Larry Arnn.
Proud to be here with such a fine student.
Well, thank you, and I take learning seriously. Hillsdale College, I say every day on this program, it is America's greatest college.
Yeah, well, it could almost be damning with faint praise. But it is very good, and it has a very powerful sense of itself. It knows what it is for 180 years, and everybody there is committed to that. That's why it's great.
It's great for many reasons, also thanks to your leadership. But speak about the – is it the bylaws or the constitution of the college is rather short. It's not a big administrative document.
Is that right? No, it's from 1844. The people who started Hillsdale College were – preachers on the frontier from New England, and they were classically educated. You had to know Latin and Greek to enter the college in 1844, and they were patriotic, learned Americans. So the document begins, the nomination of Christians known as Free Will Baptists, along with other friends of education, grateful to God for the prevalence in the land of civil and religious freedom. and intelligent piety, believing sound learning is necessary to preserve these, hereby endow. So we exist to provide sound learning in support of civil and religious freedom, which is America's gift to the world, by the way, and God's gift to America and America's gift to the world, and intelligent piety. Those are the purposes of Hillsdale College.
What makes your college different than just the everyday college? If you were to walk around Hillsdale, which I have, I sense it, I feel it. How do you do this in practice differently?
Well, first of all, it's not part of the national maw of a system today. We don't take the money from the government, which money carries several hundred pages of rules that are impenetrable and difficult to even follow, even to understand. So we don't have that. And then what that liberates us to do is to form a college. It's a word that means partnership. And so the reason Hillsdale gets on and proceeds is because to come to Hillsdale College in any capacity, you must make a commitment to the founding mission of the college. You must believe, you must agree that the college has a right to pursue the mission and you will help it. It doesn't mean you can't argue with it. You can argue about anything at Hillsdale College.
But you agree that the institution is formed for these purposes and that is not to be obstructed. And so that means that we, you know, the first line of Aristotle's politics is every community is formed for the sake of some good, right? Well, we have a good that we're formed for and we follow it. And that means we can cooperate. We can be a college together.
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