Dennis Prager Show - Audrey Gordon of Pragerforce
Aired: 2020-03-04
Duration: 03:56


=== Homeschooled Background (03:56) ===

[00:00:00]  At Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana.
[00:00:04]  Audrey, have we ever met?
[00:00:08]  Yes, we have.
[00:00:09]  Good thing I asked.
[00:00:10]  Over the Prager Force retreat.
[00:00:11]  Oh, okay.
[00:00:13]  Fair enough.
[00:00:13]  Well, it's good to meet you again.
[00:00:16]  Yes, good to meet you, too.
[00:00:19]  Thank you for having me.
[00:00:21]  Thank you.
[00:00:22]  So tell me about your background.
[00:00:23]  The last two Prager Force people...
[00:00:27]  For this March fundraising month that I spoke to, we're both homeschooled.
[00:00:32]  Were you?
[00:00:34]  Yes, I was.
[00:00:35]  I was homeschooled starting my sophomore year all the way up until my senior year.
[00:00:45]  I graduated from a Becca homeschooling program.
[00:00:51]  Do you live in Kalispell?
[00:00:54]  Yes, I do.
[00:00:56]  So, and now, so this is your first time in a regular school?
[00:01:02]  Yes.
[00:01:03]  So tell me what the great, if Eddie, the great differences are between homeschooling and going to school.
[00:01:15]  Well, I can tell you, especially from my past, I I wasn't exactly being taught what I should have been taught.
[00:01:28]  When I was originally when I compared to when I was in just in the main public education in the public schools, I was taught that we I wasn't exactly...
[00:01:54]  I wasn't exactly taught what I was supposed to be taught, I guess.
[00:02:00]  Like, technically, I didn't earn my grades.
[00:02:04]  I wasn't taught a classical American history.
[00:02:08]  I wasn't taught any of that.
[00:02:10]  So, and then compared to homeschooling, I actually learned about the American Civil War and, like, what it was about.
[00:02:17]  And I actually learned about, like, what socialism really was versus, like, what capitalism was.
[00:02:24]  And I learned about Karl Marx and his philosophies and how Vladimir Lenin implemented socialism and just how it destroyed so many lives.
[00:02:35]  You mean they're not teaching in American public schools?
[00:02:39]  How many lives Vladimir Lenin ruined?
[00:02:41]  By the way, No.
[00:02:43]  The fact that you even knew his first name tells me you didn't go to a regular school, private or public.
[00:02:54]  No, okay, so I graduated from Abeka Academy, which is a Christian academy down in Pensacola, Florida.
[00:03:05]  So what I did is that I didn't do online classes.
[00:03:10]  I took video lessons and I had to basically teach myself economics and history and I very much tuned into history and I had really great teachers and if I was confused on something I just had to go back and rewind it and just watch it and I just had to learn.
[00:03:33]  I had to actually teach myself what Some of these philosophies were and who these people were.
[00:03:41]  And it caused me to be more independent and what I should believe in and just to be more careful of what I should believe in and what I shouldn't believe in.
[00:03:56]  All right.