From the Archive: What Is Wisdom? Why Our Schools Stopped Teaching It

Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me.

Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome. I'm glad you're here. It's good to be home. And there are a few good things and not so good things that have come from Illinois.

Jury's out if I'm one of them, but Turning Point for sure.

Thank you for all of the amazing work that the Turning Point Academy team has put in to putting together this event. Hutz and Jennifer and Francine and Scott have worked very hard on the whole Turning Point Academy team. For those of you that follow Turning Point, we are a busy bunch. We just had our Young Women's Leadership Summit last weekend, where we had 2,500 young women leaders in Dallas, Texas. And if you saw any of the media coverage about it, it's a completely different type of gathering than you would expect. First of all, we said that there's no men pretending to be women allowed at our Young Women's Leadership Summit, which shouldn't be a controversial thing to say. And of course, now we have our Educator Summit. And then coming up in a couple weeks, our sister organization, Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Florida, we're hosting Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Dan Bongino, and any presidential candidate that wants to show up. And so if you guys are looking for, if you're bored in July, you want to come down to West Palm Beach, Florida, that lineup is going to make some headlines for sure. But this is one of the most important things that we're doing. I'm thrilled with Hutz's leadership and its full circle. I gave my life to the Lord. Thanks to Mrs. Weber. I still call her Mrs. Weber. You can't get over that, right?

In fifth grade, and really, third, fourth, and fifth grade set me on a trajectory for my life's work. And that's when I was at Christian Heritage Academy. I went to government school after that. So that's a really important note for some of you that are educators or parents. Even if a couple years of strong education can make that foundation more than you could ever imagine. So it was third, fourth, and fifth grade at Christian Heritage Academy. Then I went to MacArthur Middle School. Some of you might be familiar at that. And then Wheeling High School, which some of you are familiar with. And they've disowned me at that school. But I am going to talk about Wheeling in a second because there's a lot of lessons to learn there. I had a great experience there. I really did. I can't say that that school is in a good place anymore, which is too bad because the trends that we are seeing nationally unfortunately infected that school. I'll talk about that.

But Hutz then took over Christian Heritage Academy after I left, so we kind of crossed paths. And that's how we got reconnected through a local friend of mine, Jack Vito, who's a great kid, and he connected us super energetic, and the Lord wanted us to work together, and we immediately hit it off. And I mean, our whole vision, our broad vision, everything we do at Turning Point, and I forgot to mention, we just had our pastor summit, where we had 1,100 pastors in Nashville, the largest pastor summit of its kind. And we have another one coming up in a few weeks. We're doing all sorts of stuff. Is our big picture vision as we believe firmly that Western civilization is special and unique, rooted in Biblical values and ideas, and that we are called through our own obligation to do our part to try to save Western civilization against people that want to destroy it. And this is something that not every Christian agrees with me on. Some people say, Charlie, Western society doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the government that you have. I think that's wrong. Jeremiah 29,7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in. I'm not saying it's the most important thing. The most important thing is spreading the gospel. But the second most important thing is to make sure you can do the first thing. And when we lived during COVID, and they deemed the church non-essential and strip clubs, liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries were essential and the church was not. And Easter and Pentecost was you weren't even allowed to go to church, and you had to wear masks and be socially distanced. I said, no, something here is really, really terribly wrong. And we also must be very honest that in countries that are less free, totalitarianism is directly at odds with liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea. And so there is a place, I think, for believers to contest in this and to love the nation that you are in, and also have gratitude because we do not live in a country or a civilization like any other. I think this is a, I'll be very, I'll be very blunt, which is kind of my thing, right?