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YouTubeEpisode 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...
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 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.
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 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....
