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.
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...
Episode 12: Danielle Bennette Dukes and Teaching with a Golden Thread
Danielle Bennette Dukes reflects on her course Teaching with a Golden Thread and shares about ideas for a retreat in New Orleans with a small number of educators seeking...
Episode 11: Introducing our Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition course with Brian Williams
Brian Williams (Dean of the Templeton Honors College as well as the College of Arts & Humanities at Eastern University, and General Editor of Principia: A Journal of Classical...
Episode 15: Training Teachers for Rafiki Schools
In this episode, Karen speaks with Becky and Richard, graduates from Rafiki’s teacher training college and current teachers at the Rafiki School in Uganda.
Episode 10: Introducing our Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition course with Joelle Hodge
Joelle Hodge (author and Classical Academic Press executive leader) shares with Jesse Hake about the forthcoming ClassicalU course “Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition” that will be available for graduate...
Episode 14: The Student Experience at Rafiki
In this episode, Karen speaks with a Rafiki alumnus about her experience at the Rafiki school and what she has done since graduating.
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.”
Episode 09: Recovering the Lost Tools of Leadership with David Seibel
David Seibel, the Head of School at Coram Deo Academy (in Carmel, Indiana), discusses his forthcoming book and ClassicalU course on Recovering the Lost Tools of Leadership.
Episode 08: Karen Moore on Latin Education & Her Education
In episode 8, Jesse talks with Latin educator Karen Moore about her experiences as a teacher, her recent graduate studies, and as she visits to record two new courses...
Episode 13: The Experiences of Missionaries in the Rafiki Foundation
In this episode, Karen is joined by two missionaries who serve one of the Rafiki Foundation’s schools in Uganda. David and Michelle Graves, a couple that upended their lives...
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...
