Christopher Perrin

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. 

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Episode 36: Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly): The Pedagogical Maxim of Mastering Each Step

In this episode, Dr. Perrin retrieves and describes one of the most essential pedagogical principles every teacher should employ–the art of going farther and faster by going slower. 

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Episode 35: John Henry Newman and True Education

What is an educated mind? Newman says the mature mind “discerns the end in every beginning, the origin in every end, the law in every interruption, the limit in each delay; because it ever knows where it stands, and how its path lies from one point to another.” In this episode, Dr. Perrin summarizes Newman…

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Episode 34: Cutting School: Why Classical Schools Fragment Education and Turn Learning into Subjects

In this episode, Dr. Perrin laments the ways that classical schools, like progressives schools, regularly “cut up” the curriculum into too many disconnected fragments that become “subjects.”

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Episode 33: Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects

In this episode, Dr. Perrin explains the why classical schools still retain elements of their progressive counterparts and simply try to teach too much. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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Episode 32: Friendship and Community in Education (Featuring Davies Owens)

In this episode, Davies Owens (from Basecamp Live) and I co-host the podcast and talk about the ways friendship and fellowship should be at the heart of classical education. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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Episode 31: Powerful Education in the Great Tradition

In this episode Christopher Perrin discusses how formative and powerful a great education can be. Tradition is formative but a great tradition is transformative. 

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Episode 30: The Two Canons: The Biblical Books and the Great Books

It took a long while to fix the canon of Scripture; it also takes a while to determine that a book is truly a Great Book. Dr. Perrin argues that the process by which both canons are established is similar. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is…

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Episode 29: The Virtue of Faith

In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues to explore faith as a theological virtue. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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Episode 28: The Theological Virtues

In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores how theological virtues such as faith, hope, and love complement the four cardinal virtues. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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