Show overview
The Old School has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 170 episodes. That works out to roughly 140 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 55 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 28 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Steven J. Bourgeois, PhD.
From the publisher
Dr. Steven Bourgeois and Mr. Ross Miller lead an informal discussion between a current and a former teacher on topics that challenge "best practices" in contemporary education. In keeping with Neil Postman (1979), we support the conserving function of education: “Its aim at all times is to make visible the prevailing biases of a culture and then, by employing whatever philosophies of education are available, to oppose them.”
Latest Episodes
View all 170 episodesEpisode 170: On School Security with Dr. Alex Fingers
Episode 169: On Creative Tension (and a little about college football helmets)
Episode 168: On Phones
Episode 167: On Sleep
Episode 166: On the Value of Grumpiness
Episode 165: On Public Discourse
Episode 164: On American Football
Episode 163: On the state of Washington with Stanton Cole
Episode 162: On Concerts
Episode 161: On Books
Episode 160: On the World Cup
Episode 159: On Ohio (and travel and a bunch of other things)
Episode 158: On Memory
Episode 157: On Servant Leadership with Dan Albaum
Episode 156: On New York City
Episode 155: On the German Mindset (and Americans too?)
Episode 154: On Rootedness
Episode 153: On Volcanoes and Mount St. Helens
Ep 152Episode 152: On Plane Travel
Your two jet-setting hosts take a deeper look at plane travel. Dr Bourgeois and Mr. Miller consider the pros and cons of traveling by plane. They recount our favorite and least favorite parts of the experience. For all of the technological wonders that planes represent, the hosts also detail their scariest experiences. This is all preceded by controversies surrounding Southwest Airlines, as the attempt to re-brand their operations.During the discourse on planes, the hosts discussed Mr. Miller's guided trip to Germany in October to visit some of the sites that represent some of the biggest moments in the life of Martin Luther. For more information or to book one of the limited spots on this trip, please click the link below.https://tsatours.wetravel.com/trips/footsteps-of-luther-2026-with-ross-miller-tsa-tours-inc-6764922849
Ep 151Episode 151: On Fear
In this episode, your two favorite intrepid podcast hosts tackle the spine-tingling topic of fear. As they attempt to define it, the two learned gentlemen speak first of phobias but then, tackle the messier notion of personal fears - things that cannot be defined by some Greek mish-mash word but rather speaks to an internal insecurity. The hosts finish by discussing how to tackle fear and whether it works to hold on to some fear - are people better with fears or seeking to banish them all?