Classical Schools Don't Just Form Students | Andrew Ellison Pt. 2 | The Furrows

Send us Fan MailIn Part 2 of his conversation with Ryan and Alex, Andrew Ellison—veteran classical educator and former headmaster—opens with something he couldn't wait to share: a bucket-list Tallis Scholars concert in Dallas that arrived at exactly the right moment. The story becomes a lens for exploring how classical education transforms not just students, but every person in a school building—teachers, administrators, and ultimately the families and communities around them. What's in This Episode:How a Tallis Scholars concert sparked a reflection on classical education's power to form everyone in a school building—including the headmasterWhere graduates and non-educators can find real communities of lifelong learning once they've left the classroomWhat makes faculty common reading programs genuinely formative and what quietly kills themWhy the shared faculty office is a non-negotiable architectural feature of a classical schoolHow classical education's influence ripples outward from teachers to students to families and how it opened one educator's path to faithChapters:00:00: Catching Up with Andrew—Health Update and a Bucket List Concert05:30: The Tallis Scholars and the Revival of Renaissance Sacred Music14:41: The Veritas Music Teacher Who Changed a Headmaster's Ear22:00: Mortimer Adler on Leisure and the Purpose of Liberal Education28:00: Well-Read Mom and the Quest for Lifelong Learning Communities31:12: Faculty Common Reading—Power, Pitfalls, and What Actually Works42:13: The Shared Faculty Office as a Non-Negotiable47:20: How Classical Culture Ripples to Students and Families53:20: Church Communities and Classical Schools as Cultural Seedbeds55:55: The Way of Beauty—How Classical Education Deepened Andrew's FaithResources Mentioned:The Tallis ScholarsWell-Read Mom"Labor, Leisure, and Liberal Education" by Mortimer J. Adler — The Imaginative ConservativeClassical Learning TestArcadia EducationHosted by Ryan Klopak (Arcadia Education) and Alex Julian (CLT). The Furrows podcast features leaders in classical education who have been transformed by classical education.Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios