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YouTubeEpisode 45: Going Home with Odysseus
In this episode, Christopher Perrin explores the profound theme of the hero’s arduous journey home—as depicted in Homer’s The Odyssey. He discusses how Odysseus’s return to Ithaca not only signifies...
Dr. Christopher Perrin has been a leader in the renewal of classical education in the United States for 25 years. In this podcast, he traces the renewal of the American paideia exploring the recent history of the American renaissance in light of the 2500 years that have preceded it.
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Episode 44: What We Can Learn from Odysseus, the Man of Many Twists and Turns: The Pros and Cons of Being Curious and Clever
In this episode, Dr. Perrin who teaches the Odyssey to a college class every year, traces the life and quest of Odysseus noting the ways in which his life turns and...
Episode 43: 20 Words You Must Know to Understand Education: What Education Really Is
In this episode, Dr. Perrin notes the ways we have forgotten the meaning of words that related to education and revives the meaning of about 20 key words we...
Episode 42: Education as Hospitality and Healing
In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the way that Christian classical education must offer hospitality to students seeking an intellectual home and healing to the sickness of their souls. While this...
Episode 41: Scholé over Schooling: Learning to be Mary in a Society of Martha
In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses the difficulty and the importance of keeping with classical learning throughout the entirety of a student’s education, and of finding times to be...
Episode 40: The Best Teacher is a Good Book
In this episode Dr. Perrin considers this traditional maxim. Can authors and their books become meaningful teachers and even life-long friends? What is the link between an author and...
Episode 39: Education for the Next Life
In this episode, Dr. Perrin traces that part of the Christian tradition of education that regarded education as a preparation not only for one’s earthly life but ultimately for...
Episode 38: Repetition Is the Mother of Memory: The Permanent Learning of Petition
In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the pedagogical maximum of Repetitio Mater Memoriae, noting that repetition can be a delightful activity of seeking and experiencing the same good thing again and...
Episode 37: Multum non Multa: The Pedagogical Principle of Going Deep
In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the ways that teaching a few things deeply and well accelerates learning much better than by superficially covering or skimming over content.
