The Consortium Podcast

This is Episode 33 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Jake Litwin to discuss the Integrated Humanities and Apologetics, and why the various concepts studied in these subjects are essential to a well-rounded high school education. Jake is a teacher at Kepler Education, teaching Ancient and Classical Humanities and Apologetics. He is also part of The Doane Creative Agency team, a brand building and content communication company. Jake earned a B.A. in Christian Studies with an emphasis in Christian Education. He lives in Idaho with this wife and two children and enjoys reading, watching and discussing movies, playing guitar, hiking and traveling. You can find Jake's courses at here at Kepler Education.

This is Episode 32 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma sits down with Dr. Chris Schlect to discuss the Liberal Arts, its history in classical thought, what the liberal arts are, and what they are not. Dr. Schlect is the Senior Fellow of History at New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval civilizations, US history, the history of American Christianity, medieval education, and Classical Rhetoric, among other subjects. Dr. Schlect is also the Director of New Saint Andrews College’s graduate program in Classical and Christian Studies. He has taught courses in US history and Ancient Rome at Washington State University and has authored, as well as contributed to, numerous books and articles, appearing in several classical Christian publications as well as the National Park Service’s “Getaway” series. Dr. Schlect is also a teaching elder at Trinity Reformed Church (CREC) in Moscow, Idaho. He and his wife, Brenda, have five children and five grandchildren.

This is Episode 31 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, we announce the new lineup of podcasts for the upcoming year. The Consortium Podcast is where listeners can listen into engaging academic conversations with teachers, authors, and professors engaged in Classical Christian Education. The Everlasting Education podcast will continue in same vein as the earlier episodes of the Consortium podcast with Scott Postma and Joffre Swait taking a cue from Chesterton's view of "having a gentle contempt for education" and engaging the day-to-day questions and concerns that affect parents and educators who are engaged in the trenches of Classical Christian Education. The Eccentric Podcast is the podcast for students and eavesdropping parents of Kepler Education. Taking its name from our student magazine, The Kepler Eccentric, Joffre Swait (Kepler's Academic Advisor) will tackle student issues, feature Kepler students, and bring Kepler student life to the streaming airwaves. All three podcasts can be found wherever you listen to you podcasts

This is Episode 30 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Classes at Kepler Education have begun and in this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss some of the important ways students can have a successful academic year. Education is a student's vocation. It's a real calling for a specific time of a young person's life and there is much to be gained by a thankful and thoughtful student. Student listening in will gain some real valuable help and encouragement in this episode. Learn more about Online Classical Christian Education at https://kepler.education.

This is Episode 29 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait interview Dr. Mitch Stokes to talk about his new Calculus textbook., Calculus for Everyone, and what it means to teach math classically. Mitch Stokes (Ph.D., Notre Dame) is a senior fellow of philosophy at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In addition to studying philosophy under world-renowned philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Stokes holds degrees in philosophy, religion, & mechanical engineering. He is the author of Calculus for Everyone, books on apologetics, and biographies of Newton and Galileo. To learn more about classical education and browse courses, visit us at http://kepler.education.

This is Episode 28 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the important (and sometimes annoying) question about how homeschool students are going to get any "socialization." Adding an additional dynamic to this question is the fact that many students are now taking online classes--like Kepler Students. But the question assumes that "socialization" is a good thing and that students who are not in traditional brick and mortar schools are going to miss out on an important aspect of life. In this episode, Scott and Joffre take on that false assumption and discuss productive and enriching ways of cultivating a social life in a homeschooling or online learning environment. Listen in to learn more and check out http://kepler.education to learn about Student Life and clubs at Kepler Education.

This is Episode 27 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait host a top-twenty countdown of Great Books that should make every student's reading list. Books are listed and discussed briefly according to historical time periods. While this list is far and away from being exhaustive, it will give listeners a solid picture of each period of time and set students on track for obtaining a liberal arts education. Learn more about acquiring a liberal arts education at https://kepler.education.

This is Episode 26 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the importance of Logic and Latin in Classical Christian Education. Stratford Caldecott asked the important question, “What kind of education would enable a child to progress in the rational understanding of the world without losing his poetic and artistic appreciation of it?” The short answer is only a truly liberal arts education can enable a child to gain a rational understanding of the world while still maintaining, and even enhancing, his poetic and artistic appreciation of it. Two of the foundational aspects of this kind of education are Logic, the clear-sighted arguments which separate the true from the false, and Latin, the language of antiquity and Christendom by which a student learning the language is able enter into the texts which shaped the western world while also cultivating his poetic and artistic appreciation of the world. Learn more about the Logic and Latin of liberal education by visiting https://Kepler.education.

This is Episode 25 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode we interview Will Boyd, scientist, teacher, and homeschool dad, and talk about the fundamentals of science and its marriage to the humanities in a liberal arts education. Will blogs at the Reformed Environmentalist and you can learn more about the science homeschooling resources he mentions in the podcast below: https://homeschoolscience.org https://undsci.berkeley.edu/interactive/#/intro/ https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/howscienceworks_01

This is Episode 24 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. At Kepler, online education is not just the Zoomification of the classroom. It's so much more than that! In this episode Scott and Joffre discuss the various ways in which families are talking about the surprising benefits of online education. As they share quotes from conversations with Kepler families, they dive into the dynamics of what parents are celebrating. They discuss the various ways in which, as well as the reasons why, the home and family lives of Kepler students are being impacted, why parents are more than just satisfied with their children's academic achievements (they are delighted by them), and how wonder and curiosity are being fostered in an online classroom, all while Kepler teachers maintain their commitment to liberalis, and scholé learning.

This is Episode 23 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. The widespread notions of cultural appropriation, political correctness, outrage culture, identity politics, and cancel culture did not arrive on the scene in the late 2010s in a vacuum. What is today colloquially known as “woke mentality” stems from a postmodern-academic-ideology-turned-activism known as Critical Theory and its being aggressively propagated in schools and other cultural outlets. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the origins and consequences of Critical theory in its various manifestations and suggest the most practical thing we can do to fight back is to stand up to it with the gospel of Jesus Christ and Christ-centered education. Critical theory has gone beyond activism and social media movements and instigated the widespread notion of cultural appropriation, political correctness, outrage culture, identity politics, and cancel culture. And under the umbrella of Social Justice Theory, it has become insidious in the culture at large manifesting itself in the various theories and movements like Disability and Fat Studies, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Racial Theory, and Gender Studies. Not only is this "other gospel" being propagated in hollywood and behemoth corporations, but churches are adopting forms of it and legislators across the nation are attempting to have critical theories incorporated into the curriculum as the accepted worldview. To learn more about Classical Christian Education, visit https://kepler.education *Definitions and descriptions for this episode are taken from Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.

This is Episode 22 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Reading is fundamental to an education. It is the intellectual backbone of every literate person. If one cannot read, one cannot be educated, as least in the liberal arts sense of being educated. But reading is difficult for some people and reading challenging, dense texts doesn't make the task any easier. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss and break down the Four Levels of Reading as taught by Mortimer J. Adler in his acclaimed work, How to Read a Book. Learning to implement these four levels of reading will help us reach above our heads, intellectually, and grasp the meaning of difficult ideas, thus strengthening our intellect and broadening our understanding. In other words, mastering the four levels of intellectual reading will help us become autodidactic. To learn more about Classical Christian Education, visit https://kepler.education

This is Episode 21 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the importance of collaboration in Classical Christian Education because education in central to building up the kingdom of Christ: recovering a virtuous cultural and fighting the battle for the hearts and minds of the children of the Saints. Too often, Christians tend to silo and huddle around personal agendas and secondary and tertiary beliefs instead of working together for the glory of God and the advancement of the gospel in education and culture. To jump between metaphors, while we need to be cultivating our own proverbial gardens it's also essential that Christians collaborate for the greater good of gardening and agriculture in general. If Classical Christian Education is good, then it's good for everyone. To learn more about Classical Christian Education, visit https://kepler.education

This is Episode 20 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the Art of Rhetoric, including misconceptions about what it means, and why it's so important for students to study in the modern age of cancel culture. Being apt in the art of rhetoric is part of what it means to be fully human. To be an apt rhetorician is to be able to speak truth with our lives and with our words about the world and into the world. To help students develop in the art of rhetoric, Kepler offers courses in rhetoric and hosts an annual Summer Speech Competition with an opportunity to compete for the Leonberg Prize for Excellence in Rhetoric.

This is Episode 19 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss how educators, especially homeschooling families, have the most potential for cultivating both work ethic and creativity in their students' character. "Adulting" is hard and we don't always have an elegant solution for the challenges life providentially brings our way. Sometimes it takes extra effort, sheer hard work, or just starting the task and plodding ahead when we don't know all the answers. But the first thing we need to embrace for success in education is the good philosophy that no one is coming! That is, no one can do it for us. That doesn't meant we can't ask for help but it does mean we have to take the responsibility for getting the help we need and doing the work that needs to be done. Learn more about Kepler Education at https://kepler.education.

This is Episode 18 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre are joined by Kepler CEO, Daniel Foucachon, to discuss the Kepler Model, a free-market approach to classical Christian education that empowers families by liberating teachers. A unique feature of this episode is that we unpack a review by homeschooling blogger, Erin Cox of Life, Abundantly Blog, who understands the model and shares her experience with Kepler Education.

This is Episode 17 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Since parents are responsible for their child's education, it's helpful if parents both know how to be good teachers and how to identify good teachers for their children when it's appropriate to hire one. In his book, The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality, Marion Montgomery notes, "The good teacher must accept as a starting point an alumni association of parents who generally cannot make a distinction between intellectual accomplishment and moral goodness. Then he must, soundly and according to his intellectual principles, insist upon judging intellect." In other words, a good teacher knows the end and scope of his vocation and does his work with excellence regardless of the democratic impulses that tend to interfere with that good work. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss these three essential but often overlooked qualities of a good teacher.

This is Episode 16 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Aristotle famously noted that poetry is more philosophical than history because while history teaches what man has done in particular, poetry teaches us what he can and might do universally. This quite evident in George Herbert's Poem, "The Church-Porch." In this Episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack a few stanzas of Herbert's delightful poem and discuss the perennial human questions--really, the causes and effects--centered around raising children, education, and its effects on society. One important note Herbert makes--The way to make thy sonne rich, is to fill His minde with rest, before his trunk with riches:--alludes to one of our most championed causes in education--Scholé (restful learning) before job training. George Herbert's "The Church-Porch" from The Temple, stanzas 16-19: O England! full of sinne, but most of sloth; Spit out thy flegme, and fill thy brest with glorie: Thy Gentrie bleats, as if thy native cloth Transfus’d a sheepishnesse into thy storie: Not that they all are so; but that the most Are gone to grasse, and in the pasture lost. This losse springs chiefly from our education. Some till their ground, but let weeds choke their sonne: Some mark a partridge, never their childes fashion: Some ship them over, and the thing is done. Studie this art, make it thy great designe; And if Gods image move thee not, let thine. Some great estates provide, but doe not breed A mast’ring minde; so both are lost thereby: Or els they breed them tender, make them need All that they leave: this is flat povertie. For he, that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poore as he, that needs but five. The way to make thy sonne rich, is to fill His minde with rest, before his trunk with riches: For wealth without contentment, climbes a hill To feel those tempests, which fly over ditches. But if thy sonne can make ten pound his measure, Then all thou addest may be call’d his treasure.

This is Episode 15 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Cardinal John Henry Newman said that “A University seems to be in its essence, a place for the communication and the circulation of thought, by means of personal intercourse, through a wide extent of country." When we use the word University in the academic sense, we are technically shortening the phrase, universitas magistrorum et scholarium, meaning a "community of masters and scholars." In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss Cardinal Henry Newman's Idea of a University and how online education might be the best place to cultivate intentional academic communities for families and students amidst the demise of the modern educational system. In addition, they discuss not only the benefits but the pitfalls of online education and how to navigate this fairly new medium wisely and safely.

This is Episode 14 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre talk with Jonathan Roberts of the Ancient Language Institute about the best approaches to language acquisition and the benefits of learning ancient languages when obtaining a liberal arts education. Kepler Education offers a number of language courses, both ancient and modern, for 5th grade all the way up to adult learners.

This is Episode 13 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the importance of poetry in a liberal arts education. Poetry is more philosophical than history, says Aristotle. And this means poetry gives us insight into the human condition: what humans might do as opposed to history, which tells us what humans have done. The Romantic poet, Percy Shelley noted that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In a sense, they are prophets in the truth-telling sense (rather than the prognosticating sense) because poetry serendipitously offers flashes of wisdom and delightful insight, further cultivating the human imagination. Poetry also enriches other forms of communication by actualizing the music of language, turns of phrases and figures of speech.

This is Episode 12 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. This episode was recorded for Easter but due to technical difficulties recording a previous podcast, it was delayed. The content is nevertheless still quite relevant given Easter is the celebration of the most important event in human history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection absolutely changed everything, including education, since by it Christ “re-formed the human race” as Irenaeus notes in Against Heresies. In his Second Oration on Easter, Gregory Nazianzen affirms the same saying, “A few drops of blood re-creates the whole world.” In that the resurrection of Christ brings the whole cosmos within range of the redemptive purpose of Christ (Eph. 1), it reaffirms in one sense (Deut 6:4ff), and recreates in another sense (Paideia), the purpose and method of education, making it that much more important for us to get it right.

This is Episode 11 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode is Scott Postma and Joffre Swait interview Roxana Corradino, an artist, college professor, and Kepler teacher, and discuss visual communications and the importance of its study in a liberal arts education. Images and signs are all around us. But unless we are aware that every day we are being bombarded with ideas, subtly, in the form of visual communication, we may fail to see how our perceptions are being influenced. In this episode Roxana Corradino discusses the nature and importance of visual communications and how this discipline plays a vital role in how we see the world and interpret the meaning of our world in our day-to-day lives. NOTE: Unfortunately, technical difficulties in recording this week's podcast resulted in an abundance of editing which diminished the quality of this particular episode. However, we believe the conversation was important enough to share with our listeners so you can glean the valuable content our guest provided in the interview.

This is Episode 10 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait get practical about a classical liberal arts education. You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is Episode 9 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait make a thorough treatment of the meaning of a classical liberal arts education and show its importance and benefits, namely that it has the potential to cultivate a wise and virtuous people whose resultant happiness produces a free and flourishing society. A liberal arts education can be stated as the pursuit and acquisition of that knowledge which is pleasurable for its own sake, and which frees the mind and prepares the soul to be wise and virtuous. Listen to hear how one can pursue this kind of education. You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is Episode 8 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the development of AI and what this means in light of giving our children a Human Education. The robots are coming and that's not changing. But that shouldn't concern Christians who educate their children to be human beings who know how to assess value and not just function as a cog in a rote society. Writing is an example of this kind of distinction. Writing can formulaic, but it is also a very human exercise. Students who only learn to write formulaically as a job skill will see their job eventually replaced by a robot. Those who learn to be a cultivated human being and recognize writing is an expression of one's humanness, will have nothing to fear. Soft skills like these cannot be replaced by a robot because they are fundamentally human and not replicable by AI. This is the quote referenced in the podcast: “For the civic educator, the task is to produce a particular kind of citizen; for the educator released from political goals, the end of education is less to shape students than to develop their reason and knowledge to such a degree that they are able to take personal responsibility for shaping themselves as free and independent individuals—thinking through their own views, cultivating their own tastes, developing their own life plans, and becoming unique people. Although it is comforting to think that in a democracy these two projects are complementary (we like to say that democracy is the form of government that values free and autonomous individuals), the open-endedness of the educational process is worrisome from the political perspective; the temptation is to try to produce an education with a known and satisfactory outcome. Free men and women are often a bit too unpredictable for the civic educator's taste.” - Bob Pepperman Taylor, University of Vermont This is the AI article referenced in the podcast. You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is Episode 7 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait discuss the radical idea of deinstitutionalizing society and contend that the modern school, as we know it, doesn’t work for educating free men and women. It does work well, however, toward the goal for which it was designed, which is to cultivate a society of both consumers and cogs—simultaneously consumers and cogs—a self-licking ice-cream cone if you will. Building off of previous discussions, they get down into the weeds and make two very important declarations about the said self-licking ice-cream cone. First, schools, as we have come to accept them, literally create a dependent society, not a free society. Good people scratch their heads wondering why Americans (and most Europeans for that matter) are so dependent on the State, but we need look no further than our public school model which were modeled after the Prussian schools and introduced to the U. S. in the 19th century by secular humanists like Horace Mann (1796-1859). Second, schools, as we have come to accept them, have no logical limits, and therefore, create an abyss, a black hole of jobs, money, advisors, bureaucracies, and bureaucracies to regulate bureaucracies—and the list goes on and on. Listen to Episode 7 to learn how schools create and legitimize student values and shape student worldviews, which essentially gives the school system a monopoly on the professional, political, and financial aspects of a society. You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is Episode 6 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, we tackle the architecture of Classical Christian Education. All education has a foundation, a function, a form, and body of materials from which to build. And like any building, the excellence of an education not only depends on the excellence of the materials but on the excellence of the craftsmanship. The foundation must be solid or else it will collapse under pressure. Additionally, the form of the education should follow the function of the education. Unfortunately, that's not always the case, and there are consequences for that kind of a building mistake. Join Scott Postma and Joffre Swait for this 45 minute segment as they discuss the architecture of a Classical Christian Education and learn what it takes to be a good builder of young people. You can also learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is Episode 5 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In his fabulous work on recovering Classical Education, Norms and Nobility, David Hicks writes, “Education at every level reflects our primary assumptions about the nature of man and for this reason no education is innocent of an attitude toward man and his purposes.” In this episode Scott and Joffre take Hicks thesis from an anthropological discussion to a cosmological discussion by arguing, “Education at every level reflects our primary assumptions about the nature of the universe and for this reason no education is innocent of an attitude toward the nature of the universe and its purposes.” If education is the transference of the collective knowledge of the universe from one generation to the next, modern education not only falls far from this goal, it has changed the goal posts. Classical Christian education seeks to recover the truth about the nature of the cosmos and what that means for mankind in every generation. Learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

This is episode 4 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. The state of higher education has been adrift since the 1960s, and this drift from a truly liberal education to indoctrination for the ideological agendas of the elite has taken our K-12 schools with it. As a matter of fact, the public schools (as well as many "woke" private and prep schools) are little more than the "reeducation camps" so many conspiracists are shouting about today. The solution to the education crisis is not to throw more money at it. The solution is creating alternative paths to teaching and learning. In this episode, Dr. Robert Woods joins us to discuss the dangers of modern education (a.k.a indoctrination), the benefits of the education of the Western Tradition, and the apprenticeship model model of education--the Medieval model of seeking out the scholars and studying with that person best suited for the work. We further discuss how to get a great education without spending a fortune on a degree and what parents should know about accreditation. Learn more about Dr. Robert Woods and the course he teaches at Kepler Education. Learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

In Episode 3, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait riff off of the humorous anecdote where Chesterton was asked which book he would want with him if ever stranded on a desert Island--Chesterton quickly answered, “Thomas’ Guide to Practical Shipbuilding”--and they discuss the top ten books they would recommend in a similar situation. Joffre comes at this question from a personal standpoint and discusses the books that shaped his own education. Scott comes at it from both a personal and educator's perspective, highlighting the books that not only shaped his thoughts, but books worth reading again and again, books every person should read in their lifetime.

When a culture is in the process of denying its own roots, it becomes most important to know what these roots are. We had best know what we reject before we reject it. If we are going to build a chair, the first thing we need to know, above all else, is what a chair is. Otherwise, we can do nothing. We are not a culture that never understood what a human being was in his nature and in his destiny. Rather we are a culture that, having once known these things, has decided against living them or understanding them. - James Schall In this episode, we discuss the way in which education, properly understood, requires leisure (Skolé) so students can apprehend, learn to appreciate, and finally, approximate their lives to that which is good, true, and beautiful in the world. Learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.

We are witnessing the post-modern project collapse in on itself and left unchecked it will bring a new dark age in its wake. In this inaugural episode of the Consortium Podcast, Kepler Education president, Scott Postma, and Kepler student advisor, Joffre Swait, discuss the current effort to erase the past on which the pillars of Western civilization have been built by censoring literature and scapegoating those who challenge their power. They argue the light of the gospel, which is the only hope for this coming dark age, is best dispensed through classical Christian education. Learn more about Kepler Education and the consortium of teachers who share this vision for student flourishing by visiting our website at https://kepler.education. Or, visit the Consortium Blog at https://consortium.kepler.education/.