Podcast: Christopher Perrin Show

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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Episode 27: The Cardinal Virtue of Justice

 In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence can become falsified so that we are not able to perceive what is truly real.  Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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Episode 26: The Classical Canon

In this episode, Dr. Perrin is joined by author, school-founder, and lover of the classics Dr. Anika T. Prather. They discuss the works within the Canon, Mortimer Adler, and how schools can determine which books are crucial for reading. Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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Episode 25: The Virtue of Prudence (Part Two): False Prudence

 In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence can become falsified so that we are not able to perceive what is truly real.  Subscribe to our episode release email list to be notified when a new episode is released!

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