Gel Pen Learning

There’s a saying: “If you send your children to Caesar for their education, don’t be surprised when they come back as Romans.”

Christians love to use this line to justify homeschooling, but here’s the twist: it’s not just about school. The problem is bigger than the classroom.

College was once sold as a place to sharpen ideas and test worldviews. That’s not what’s happening anymore. Instead, kids land in ideological echo chambers where dissent gets punished and “rage-bait” gets rewarded. But let’s be honest, adults live in those same echo chambers too.

If you think your kid is going to magically grow up immune to it, you’re fooling yourself.

Parents have two choices:

1. Pretend the institutions are going to do the work of building resilient thinkers.
2. Do it themselves — by reading widely, challenging their own assumptions, and modeling what it looks like to wrestle with uncomfortable ideas.

If you only consume media that agrees with you, if you dismiss whole groups of people as “the enemy,” then your kids are going to inherit that tribalism. You can’t tell them to be open-minded while showing them how to be closed.

So stop outsourcing your brain. Pick up a book you disagree with. Watch the interview that makes you squirm. Admit when you’re wrong.

Because if you don’t model it, your kids won’t learn it, and they’ll return Roman no matter where you send them.

Let’s Chat

What are your thoughts on the current state of college and universities? Are your children college-bound? Let me know in the comments below.