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Thoroughness and Charm, with Mandi Gerth

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What is the Moral Imagination and How is it Formed?

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What is the Goal of Teaching Classic Literature?

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Developing Habits—Cosmos and Chaos

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The Two Dreams

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What difference does glory make in the way we think about the world?

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What Did You Learn from Writing Your Book? (Pt. 2)

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What Did You Learn from Writing Your Book?

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How Do We See the Glory?

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What Is the Glory of a Thing?

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How Do We Teach the Glory of a Thing?

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How Can I be Sure My Student Encounters the Reality?

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How Will the Temple Pattern Help My Child Love Learning?

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The Temple: An Example from Education

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The Temple: An Example of the Pattern of Revelation

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The Temple: How is it a Pattern of Revelation?

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The Temple: What is its pattern?

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The Temple: Why Does it Matter?

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On Grammar and Interpreting Signs

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How Does Rhetoric Teach Students to Read? (Part 2)

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How Does Rhetoric Teach Students To Read?

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Ways of coping for the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual realms

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More thoughts on living through crisis, plus audience Q&A

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Further Thoughts on Living within Crisis

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Further Thoughts on Rhetoric plus some thoughts on living in the world of Covid-19

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Thoughts on the Relationship Between the Arts, Sciences, and Reason

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Further Thoughts on the Definition of Rhetoric

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On Definitions of Rhetoric

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How should I structure the day when students have multiple needs?

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How do I adapt classical education to the modern system?

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How do I teach history classically?

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How God Taught Adam in the Garden

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How should I respond to my reluctant learner?

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What Are the Basic Fundamental Literary Skills?

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How should we use "the should question"?

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On Tools for Making Connections

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On Catechism in Education (part 4)

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On Catechism in Education (Part 3)

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On Catechism in Education (Part 2)

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On Catechism in Education (Part 1)

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What is the purpose of the k-12 education?

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Why are the common topics so important?

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Why do you claim that the "Iliad" is the best handbook for rhetoric?

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Why do we need a cosmology other than the one provided by current science?

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What are the top 5 ideals any classical school should embody?

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What is an "ideal type" and does it necessarily lead to moralizing?

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Why did we name our annual Paideia Prize after Russell Kirk?

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Some Final Thoughts on Getting a Classical Education As an Adult

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On Pursuing a Deeper Understanding of Classical Education

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How to Pursue Your Goals of Self-Education

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More on Getting a Classical Education As an Adult: Setting Goals

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Where Should I Start If I Want to Get a Classical Education As An Adult

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On the Importance of "Adequacy" in teaching

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What Are the Tools for Truth Perception?

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What is the "Art of Truth-fishing"?

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Why Is Astronomy Concerned an Important Part of the Quadrivium?

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Ask Andrew: What Joy and Harmony Have to Do with Assessment

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How Do I Assess an Idea?

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How Do I Assess a Skill?

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Do you need to love a subject to teach it effectively?

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What does a good assessment look like? Part 2

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What does a good assessment look like?

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What does it mean to assess classically?

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What is the "great dance" and why does it matter?

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Is There a Universal Curriculum That Is Good for All People?

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Does Classical Education Value African Culture Or Want to Replace It (and other non-western cultures)?

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Can a classical curriculum include more than Western culture?

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What should classical education look like in other parts of the world?

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What is the classical pedagogy?

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What is the Classical Curriculum?

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Why did Dorothy Sayers' interpretation of the trivium become so popular?

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What is Wisdom (and how is it cultivated)?

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What is Virtue (and how is it cultivated)?

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What does classical education have to do with "knowing, glorifying, and enjoying God"?

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Why Are the Liberal Arts So Important?

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What does it mean to say that our children are imitations?

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What is the Quadrivium?

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What are the 7 Liberal Arts?

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So What is Christian Classical Education?

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Welcome to the new Ask Andrew Podcast

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How do you avoid moralizing a "morality tale"?

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How to Avoid Moralizing Stories (and Why It's Important)

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Is Calculus Lost on the Homemaker?

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Why does my daughter find it difficult to connect with mythology?

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How does one train a child's affections

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How do I know what questions my students should be asking?

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How do I teach fables?

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What does "neo-classical" mean?

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On Moralizing Stories

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Why is the magic in Lewis and Tolkien ok?

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Why "CiRCE"?

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What do wisdom and virtue have to do with holiness?

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Why Read the Classics (when even the good guys do bad things)?

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Cultivating an Appreciation of Good Music

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What should we do about screen time and our kids?

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On Books for Personal and Professional Development

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How do I introduce my middle school child to classical education?

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Is classical education a method, or is it about materials? (Part 2)

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Is classical education a method, or is it about materials? (Part 1)

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I teach in a modern school, but I want to affect change and educate myself. Advice?