and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave [cheers and applause] rachel: good morning. it is 6:00 in new york city and i m happy to be here with will and pete. love that national anthem. love your photos. please keep sending them into friends@foxnews.com. will: good morning. rachel: nice to be here. i ve been reminded of that. pete: what is everybody right now? 10? it is lower than 10. rachel: this is like your childhood. will: that is why i fled as quickly as possible. if it was over 40 °, we didn t wear a jacket. pete: that was a warm day. will: it was a warm day. over 40, you could go light. we had an ice storm all week in texas. everything was an ice-skating rink. your driveway, your grass was an ice-skating rink, not snow, ice. pete: do you use the acquired skills of ice-skating
is, so explain plain what a classical education is briefly. absolutely. rachel, the story of american higher ed really for the past half century has been a story of one college after another trashing any kind of a serious core curriculum, you know? if you re watching this and you graduated college in the 60s or 70s, then you probably took u.s. history or economics or western civilization. but those days are long gone. many colleges now have gone to kind of an a la carte model, but there s a narrow band. schools like the university of dallas, hillsdale, grove city college that have maintained and sometimes doubled down on a traditional core curriculum in the great books of western civilization with the aim of the cultivation of virtue, moral formation. it s an incredible education, and they are bucking the national trend which is really a decline of young people going to 4-year, brick and mortar liberal arts colleges. rachel: you re seeing young people being drawn to the