This podcast features the Director of ClassicalU.com, Jesse Hake, interviewing ClassicalU presenters and Live Learning Event hosts as well as occasional episodes featuring material directly from one of our ClassicalU presenters or guests.
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Dr. Anika Prather herself, over many years, has engaged the fire and light that the classics have brought to African American throughout the history of America. She is uniquely gifted and trained to help us reclaim the canon that has been a source of liberty and humanity. As a scholar of the black intellectual tradition, she passionately argues for bringing the best that has been thought and said to African Americans and all Americans.
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Dr. Angel Parham is a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a remarkable scholar of the black intellectual tradition. Join her as she explores the rich ways black intellectuals have contributed to American education and notes the ways classical education is beginning to once again bless and equip African Americans for leadership and service.
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Please note that this show is currently on hiatus. In the meantime, we hope you that you will enjoy the past episodes. This show features the clear-thinking and articulate philosopher, Dr. David Schenk. After teaching philosophy at college for over twenty years, Dr. Schenk now offers his gentle but hard-hitting analysis of the classical tradition of education and philosophy as it engages contemporary culture and thought.
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Dr. Brian Williams is the dean of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University and the editor of the Principia journal on classical education. This podcast is geared toward academics and professors wishing to explore and discuss the renewal of liberal arts education in our colleges and universities.
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Episode 18: Talking to Dr. Kelisha B. Graves about Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Broken "Factory Model" of Education
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In this episode, Jesse Hake talks with author, professor, and executive leader Dr. Kelisha B. Graves about her book on educator and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879 to 1961) as well as about what is broken and how we should respond to today's predominant "factory model" of education. Our conversation also considered the educationa…
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Episode 17: David Hicks on Identity and an Education in Conscience and Style
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While recording for his new ClassicalU course on teaching, school leadership, and the history of education, David Hicks sat down for a conversation. In this second of two parts, he answers a question about hiring Ron DeSantis as a school teacher and shares more on our American identity crisis, on the importance of gratitude, and on Marcus Aurelius …
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Episode 16: David Hicks on Christian Life and His Forthcoming Book
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While recording for his new ClassicalU course on teaching, school leadership, and the history of education, David Hicks sat down for a conversation. In this first of two parts, he shares about the Christian life, classical architecture, monasticism, and his forthcoming book The Stones Cry Out (releasing fall of 2024 from Classical Academic Press). …
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Episode 08: When We Were Together and When We Were Not
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In this episode, Anika shares how everything that unites us is deeper than what separates us as she continues her invitation to attend the Redefining Classics gathering at Catholic University on June 15th. Learn more and register at Redefining Classics!By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 07: Invitation to Redefining Classics at Catholic University on June 15th
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In this episode, hear Anika's introduction and welcome for Redefining Classics at Catholic University on June 15th. Learn more and register for this gathering at Redefining Classics!By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 15: Junius Johnson on Teaching Music
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Jesse speaks with Dr. Junius Johnson about a forthcoming new course on ClassicalU about music education. Dr. Johnson's love and knowledge regarding classical music (including his professional experience playing the French horn) are inspiring.By Jesse Hake
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Episode 14: Disability and Classical Education with Dr. Amy Richards
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Jesse speaks with Dr. Amy Richards about her all-new course entitled Disability and Classical Education: Student Formation in Keeping with Our Common Humanity and her forthcoming book with us on this topic.By Jesse Hake
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Episode 13: Chatting with Junius Johnson about God and Time
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As Junius Johnson was recording three forthcoming new courses for ClassicalU.com about Augustine, medieval history, and music, Jesse Hake recorded this conversation with him about God and time in theology and philosophy. (For more, see our course on Essential Philosophy with David Schenk as well as Junius Johnson's courses on Theology of Beauty and…
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Episode 12: Danielle Bennette Dukes and Teaching with a Golden Thread
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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 to spend more time reflecting on the theme of place and its relation to our capacities as Christians to see goodness and beauty in our world and to develop this capacity in our s…
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Episode 11: Introducing our Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition course with Brian Williams
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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 Education) talks with Jesse Hake about “Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition” which is the third graduate course available in partnership with Templeton Honors College's MAT.…
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Episode 10: Introducing our Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition course with Joelle Hodge
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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 credit with the Templeton Honors College's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and that Joelle developed as part of her masters degree work in the M…
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Episode 09: Recovering the Lost Tools of Leadership with David Seibel
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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.By Jesse Hake
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Episode 08: Karen Moore on Latin Education & Her Education
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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 on ClassicalU: one on Virgil’s Aeneid and another on Teaching Latin with Art & Archaeology.By Jesse Hake
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Episode 07: Karen Moore and the Tournament of Laurels Idea
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In this episode, Jesse chats with Karen Moore about her work with the new Tournament of Laurels event for Latin students. Karen has a couple of new courses coming soon on ClassicalU.com, and don’t miss her existing course on Essential Latin. (Please note that this episode will be followed by another with Karen Moore focused on her own teaching expe…
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Episode 06: Interview with Nate Antiel
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In this episode, ClassicalU Director Jesse Hake speaks with Nate Antiel who is an editor with Classical Academic Press, currently working primarily on our new Humanitas line. He also supports the team of the classcial education journal Principia. Nate also has teaching experience in the Trinity Schools and holds three masters degrees related to lit…
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In this episode ClassicalU Director Jesse Hake speaks with Bill Carey about computer programming and mathematics. A course named "Socratic Mathematics," led by William Carey, was recently just published to ClassicalU and several additional recorded conversations between Bill and Dr. Christopher Perrin are available to watch.…
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Episode 04: Interview with Junius Johnson
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ClassicalU Director Jesse Hake speaks with Junius Johnson about imagination and fairy stories. Watch for two forthcoming courses on ClassicalU.com with Dr. Johnson about teaching fairy stories (also to release as a book!) and the theology of beauty and the imagination. ClassicalU will also have lectures from Dr. Johnson posting soon on how to teach…
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Episode 03: Interview with Junius Johnson
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ClassicalU Director Jesse Hake speaks with Junius Johnson about the challenges that students and teachers are facing in the modern world and how the classical tradition approach can alleviate some of these problems. Watch for two forthcoming courses on ClassicalU with Dr. Johnson about teaching fairy stories (also to release as a digital book) and …
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Episode 06: Dr. Prather Discusses the Relevance of Chinua Achebe to Classical Education
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Episode 02: Interview with Christine Perrin
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ClassicalU Director Jesse Hake speaks with Christine Perrin about her most recent lecture and her research interests, which include participatory reading and other practices in the literature classroom as well as educating the poetic imagination and the nature and recovery of a musical education. Professor Perrin is currently recording a lecture fo…
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Episode 01: Interview with Dr. Nicole Koopman
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In this inaugural episode, Jesse Hake speaks with Dr. Nicole Koopman about the history of classical Christian education and her own experience with it. Dr. Koopman is a teacher at Cair Paravel Latin School, one of the three oldest classical Christian schools in America, and she is currently recording a new course with ClassicalU.com called "Women i…
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In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Zena Hitz, a tutor at St. John's College and the author of Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book has been reviewed by Jesse Hake in the newest issue of The Principia Journal and it is the subject of this episode's discussion.…
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Episode 06: Interview with Dr. David Diener
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In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. David Diener, headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and a lecturing professor of education who has received a BA in philosophy and ancient languages from Wheaton College, as well as an MA in philosophy, MS in history and philosophy of education, and dual PhD in philosophy and philosophy of education from India…
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Episode 05: Dr. Prather Shares a Narrative of Hope
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Dr. Anika Prather tells a new narrative of hope that will alter your perspective on classical learning, how to teach history, and on America.By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 05: Interview with Dr. Phillip Donnelly
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In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Phillip Donnelly, professor of literature and Director of the Great Texts Program at Baylor University. They discuss the article Dr. Donnelly has written for the Principia journal entitled “A Grammar for Human Making in Digital Age: Bonaventure on the Mechanical and Liberal Arts”…
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Episode 05: Interview with Diana Batarseh
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Conversation with guest Diana Batarseh, the founding Head of School at King's Academy Nashville and the developer of "Ask Me WhoOo," a 3-volume CD series of original 74 songs covering questions and answers from the children's First Catechism based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism.By Dr. Angel Parham (TrueNorth.fm)
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How does the cultural adoption of secular moral categories impact people's qualities of life? How can classical teaching provide a solution to the modern loss of personhood?By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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What moral deformities exist in our K-12 education system? How does biological reductionism play into this confusion of morality?By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 04: Dr. Prather Shares the Blessings of Marva Collins and Others on Her Journey to Love Classics
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Dr. Anika Prather tells her story with the last of three stages along her journey into falling in love with the classics, including the help of Marva Collins and several graduate school professors as a help to her.By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 04: Interview with Dr. Julia Hejduk of Baylor University
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In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Julia Baylor, professor of classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. Baylor University is the university that hosts the Principia Journal.By Dr. Brian Williams (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 04: Interview with Dr. Joseph Clair
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Conversation with guest Dr. Joseph Clair, the author of Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine and Reading Augustine: On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning.By Dr. Angel Parham (TrueNorth.fm)
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What drives the error in our moral thinking today? How have the metaphysics of ethics changed over the course of history?By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 06: Chronological Snobbery and the Primacy of Personhood
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In this episode, we continue our discussion of the primacy of personhood with the addition of chronological snobbery.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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In this episode, we focus on what the benefits of classical education are for students and how those benefits show up in the classroom.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 03: Dr. Prather Shares the Blessings of W. E. B. Du Bois on Her Journey to Love Classics
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Dr. Anika Prather tells her story with the second of three stages along her journey into falling in love with the classics. This episode focuses on W. E. B. Du Bois as a help to her in her early years of teaching.By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 03: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Dr. Jackie Murray
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Conversation with two guests, Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Dr. Jackie Murray, who are working together on a textbook about understanding race in antiquity and its modern impacts and legacies.By Dr. Angel Parham (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 03: The True Aims of Classical Education
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In this episode, Brian Williams reflects on what aim or end of education has been been in the classical tradition–not merely earning one’s bread learning to live well, “for the final product of our education…. is a man” (from W.B. DeBoise, The Souls of Black Folk)By Dr. Brian Williams (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 04: How to Think Clearly and Avoid Confusing Categories
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In this episode, we continue our discussion on thinking clearly–this time by learning how to avoid confusing categories, questions, and assertions.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 03: How to Think Clearly and Avoid Academic Jargon
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In this episode, we continue our discussion of why intellectual honesty is so greatly needed and increasingly rare.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 02: Interview with Dr. James Tatum
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Episode 02: First Things and Tradition in Classical Education
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In this episode, Brian Williams continues to reflect on tradition, starting with the metaphor of fire: “tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.”By Dr. Brian Williams (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 02: Dr. Prather Shares How She First Fell in Love with the Classics
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Dr. Anika Prather tells her story with the first of three steps along her journey into falling in love with the classics.By Dr. Anika Prather
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In this episode, we continue our discussion of why intellectual honesty is so greatly needed and increasingly rare.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 01: Welcome to the Principia Podcast
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In this inaugural episode, Dr. Brian Williams muse on the relationship of “first things” (or principia in Latin) and tradition. Do classical educators want to emulate the Greeks and...By Dr. Brian Williams (TrueNorth.fm)
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Episode 01: Interview with Dr. David Withum
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Episode 01: Welcome to Reclaiming the Canon
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Dr. Anika Prather welcomes you to her new podcast and lets you know where you will be journeying with her in coming episodes. The canon is for all of us, and we need to reclaim it.By Dr. Anika Prather
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Episode 01: Intellectual Rabbits (Intellectual Honesty Part 1)
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The first step of academic inquiry is … honesty. Wait, what’s academic honesty? Find out.By Dr. David Schenk (TrueNorth.fm)
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