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The Everlasting Education
by theeverlastingeducation
G.K. Chesterton quipped, ”Without a gentle contempt for education no man‘s education is complete.” The Everlasting Education Podcast is a Kepler Education production in which we attempt to help families achieve the best of education through a gentle contempt for education.
Episodes
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Ep. 24 - Odin and Mercury 3: The Socratic Discussion
This is Episode 24 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In episode 24 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre discuss the Socratic dialogue in the classroom. Just like all good conversation, Socratic dialogue is an art—a skill that can be improved…
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Ep. 23 - Odin and Mercury: Classroom Conversations
This is Episode 23 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In episode 23 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre discuss the art of conversation in the classroom. Since conversation is an art, it is a skill that can be improved upon; and in this…
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Ep. 22 - Odin and Mercury
This is Episode 22 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In episode 22 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre take slightly different approach to St. Augustine's call to Christians to be "wise and eloquent" by introducing a new series on the noble…
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Ep. 21 - Getting an Informal Classical Education by Carrying Books
This is Episode 21 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott and Joffre talk about the importance of books and how we all can become classically educated by developing a habit of acquiring, carrying, and reading books. In a technological world...
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Ep. 20 - How to Talk About Classical Education
This is Episode 20 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. Too often we get the question, "What is this thing called Classical Christian Education?" and because of the way the question is initially formulated, we find it difficult to explain what we mean. In this...
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Ep. 19 - Education is Immeasurable but Observable
This is Episode 19 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the manner in which education, though immeasurable, is observable. On the one hand, attempting to measure education can lead to conflating "good grades" with "true...
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Ep. 18 - Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Speaking Well
This is Episode 18 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott and Joffre read and discuss the virtues of speaking up, speaking out, and speaking well. While we all have seemingly legitimate reasons for sitting back, Christian young…
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Ep. 17 - Sheep Among the Wolves
This is Episode 17 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott and Joffre read and discuss Abraham Kuyper's treatise, Sheep Among the Wolves. Abraham Kuyper was a leader in the movement for education reform in the Netherlands during the late 19th…
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Ep. 16 - Summertime Leisure Opportunities
This is Episode 16 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. Summertime is a well-deserved break for teachers and students; but that doesn't mean education stops—only formal education. It's okay to take a break, but instead of spending all of our free time merely…
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Ep. 15 - The Promise of a Christian Paideia
This is Episode 15 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss chapter 8 of Hicks Norms and Nobility, "The Promise of Christian Paideia." Hicks states, "The creative tension between pagan humanism and Christianity...
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Ep. 14 - Chapter Seven of Norms and Nobility: The Ennobling the Masses
This is Episode 14 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of bringing an "aristocratic" education to a "democratic" people. "Classical scholars," says Hicks, "recognize that material efficiency may...
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Ep. 13 - Chapter Six of Norms and Nobility: On the Necessity of Dogma
This is Episode 13 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of dialectical learning and how that is different than dialectical materialism. In Chapter Six, Hicks asserts that "all knowledge of first...
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Ep. 12 - Chapter Five of Norms and Nobility: Saving the Appearances
This is Episode 12 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In Chapter Five, Hicks treats the modern shift in mathematics and the sciences from its program of seeking to "save the appearances" to mere material analysis; that is, from man seeking his highest...
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Ep. 11 - Chapter Four of Norms and Nobility: The Tyrannizing Image
This is Episode 11 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In Chapter Four, Hicks “Tyrannizing Image,” which is to speak of the Ideal image of human perfection. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack the chapter and discuss one of the more subtle but...
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Ep. 10 - Learning in War-Time, C. S. Lewis - Part 2
This is Episode 10 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production, and part two of a two-part episode in which Joffre Swait and Scott Postma read and discuss C. S. Lewis's sermon, "Learning in War-Time." C. S. Lewis, himself a veteran of World War One, delivered the sermon at...
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Ep. 9 - Learning in War-Time, C. S. Lewis - Part 1
This is Episode 9 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. This is part one of a two-part episode in which Joffre Swait and Scott Postma read and discuss C. S. Lewis's sermon, "Learning in War-Time." C. S. Lewis, himself a veteran of World War One, delivered the sermon...
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Ep. 8 - Chapter Three of Norms and Nobility: Teaching the Father of the Man
This is Episode 8 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack some of the salient points in chapter three of David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility. Hicks argues that "the activity of learning takes place in a no-man's…
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Ep. 7 - Marking Time as a Liturgy for Learning and Life
This is Episode 7 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait set aside Norms and Nobility to talk calendars and liturgy. As most are aware, a calendar is a way of marking time by reference to important events in our lives....
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Ep. 6 - Chapter Two of Norms and Nobility - The Word is Truth
This is Episode 6 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Chapter Two of Norms and Nobility and discuss the tensions in language as it pertains to the classical educator. Modern education want to strip language of...
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Ep. 5 - Chapter One of Norms and Nobility - Virtue is the Fruit of Learning
This is Episode 5 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Chapter One and discuss some of the misconceptions of modern education, discuss the importance of Inquiry, Aesthetics, and Ethics as parts of the…
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Ep. 4 - Introducing Norms and Nobility
This is Episode 4 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. David V. Hicks's, Norms and Nobility was first published in 1981 when it won the American Library Association's Outstanding Book Award. Since that time, it has gone on to become one of the most influential…
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Ep. 3 - Thanksgiving Poems
This is Episode 3 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this delightful and enlightening episode, Joffre Swait shares some of his Thanksgiving poetry and together he and Scott Postma unpack some of the more salient themes. This is an episode that would have made...
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Ep. 2 - The Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door
This is Episode 2 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack the introduction to Jack Schneider's book, The Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door. Join them as they listen in, react to, and discuss Schneider's assault on…
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Ep. 1 - Is Public School Constitutional?
This is Episode 1 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack Philip Hamburger's Wall Street Journal article, Is the Public School System Constitutional? In this article, Burger asserts that "The public school...
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G.K. Chesterton quipped, ”Without a gentle contempt for education no man‘s education is complete.” The Everlasting Education Podcast is a Kepler Education production in which we attempt to help families achieve the best of education through a gentle contempt for education.
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