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RSSEpisode 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...
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 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 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...
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....
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.
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...
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!
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...
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...
