"Pure self-reliance is a myth, but systemic change, without personal change, is hollow and dispiriting and ultimately cannot work. Its true that people need to act on their own behalf, but individuals do not developed such dogged self-determination until someone or some institution first helps them grasp that their effort is integral to achieving that goal. It is is this core conviction that allows them to endure as they encounter barriers along the way. This precondition is agency."

Founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power Ian Rowe is our guest today and we are taking a deep dive into education.  Ian and Jay are discussing how more and more kids are being told that the system is either rigged against them or they're at fault for not being able to overcome the system, how kids will start to believe those kinds of things if they hear it enough, and how it is the responsibility of the older generation to help the younger generation.  Ian has dedicated his life to the service of education and we're grateful that he has chosen to share some of his journey with us on this episode of The Culture Matters Podcast.