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  • Episode 42: Education as Hospitality and Healing
    2024/08/27

    In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the way that Christian classical education must offer hospitality to students seeking an intellectual home and healing to the sickness of their souls. While this is not the whole of a robust classical education, it is integral and vital part. (Also with connections to Augustine: Rejoicing in the Truth by Jeffrey Lehman.)

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    36 分
  • Episode 41: Scholé over Schooling: Learning to be Mary in a Society of Martha
    2024/06/11

    In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses the difficulty and the importance of keeping with classical learning throughout the entirety of a student's education, and of finding times to be wisdom-seeking Mary in a society that expects everyone to be always-busy Martha.

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    44 分
  • Episode 40: The Best Teacher is a Good Book
    2024/05/28

    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 authority? Do we still need living teachers if we have really good books?

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    12 分
  • Episode 39: Education for the Next Life
    2024/04/23

    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 the next, heavenly life. Can such a heavenly focus be of real, earthly merit? The tradition says yes.

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    15 分
  • Episode 38: Repetition Is the Mother of Memory: The Permanent Learning of Petition
    2024/04/09

    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 again until it is permanently possessed.

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    12 分
  • Episode 37: Multum non Multa: The Pedagogical Principle of Going Deep
    2024/03/26

    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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    17 分
  • Episode 36: Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly): The Pedagogical Maxim of Mastering Each Step
    2024/03/12

    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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    14 分
  • Episode 35: John Henry Newman and True Education
    2024/02/27

    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 on what the grand goal of education truly is--"the perfection of the intellect."

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    19 分