The Christopher Perrin Show
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Ep 10Episode 10: Recovering a Vocabulary for Classical Education
In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses words and their importance in education. What words do we use in traditional liberal education? How have we lost the meanings of certain words in our lives?
Ep 9Episode 09: Starting a Classical College
In this episode, Dr. Perrin and Greg Wilbur of New College Franklin discuss the importance of the intersection between theology and classical education. This conversation was recorded at CiRCE Institute National Conference in Charleston.
Ep 8Episode 08: The Practice of Lamentation
How have we, as a modern society, forgotten how to lament? What could lamentation do for us, on an individual level and as a whole?
Ep 7Episode 07: The Resurgence of Classical Education Among African Americans
What was the earliest classical school for African Americans and what effect did it have on the resurgence of the classical movement today?
Ep 6Episode 06: What Does Jerusalem Have to Do With Athens?
How do we encounter the classical tradition? How do we engage with the sacred inheritance of great writings?
Ep 5Episode 05: The Sacred Synthesis
What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens? Can the Greek and Roman tradition of classical thought be harmonized with what is taught in the Old and New Testaments or in the Christian tradition?
Ep 4Episode 04: The Great Idea of the Liberal Arts
What are the liberal arts? Why are they liberal? And why are they arts?
Ep 3Episode 03: The Great Idea of the Great Conversation
Conversation is a dance of ideas with at least one partner. Find out why.
Ep 2Episode 02: The Great Idea of Virtue
What is it for which education should aim and seek? Virtue. Find out why.
Ep 1Episode 01: The Great Idea of Wisdom
In this inaugural episode, Dr. Perrin make a case for wisdom being the chief aim of education. Sadly, few us can even define wisdom much less know how to...