The Path to the Academy
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Two Professors Walk Into a Podcast
Dr. Cyril Jenkins welcomes his friend Prof. Bill Tighe to discuss his own life as a student and an educator, and how good literature is the path to the cultivation of the soul.
A Stroll Through a Renaissance City
Dr. Jenkins and John Heitzenrater discuss the Renaissance author Leonardo Bruni and his wonderful encomium of Florence; what Bruni can tell us about rhetoric and history; how this small city pursued goodness, truth, and beauty; and what both of these can tell us about classical Orthodox education.
The Accidental Classical Educator
Dr. Jenkins welcomes Andrew Kern, founder and director of The Circe Institute for a lively conversation ranging from pedagogy, to the sorry state of modern education, and of course, to Homer.
Ascending the Ladder: From Homeschooler to Classical Headmaster
This episode Dr. Jenkins takes a nepotistic turn on the podcast, and discusses homeschooling in relationship to classical schooling with his nephew, William A. Jenkins, a homeschooled student who is now Headmaster of Christiana Homeschool Academy, a classical academy in Westminster, MD.
More Tradi-than-thou: A Catholic Educator Discovers Where the Real Tradition Leads
In this episode, Dr. Cyril Jenkins discusses with John Heitzenrater his path from hyper-traditionalist, observant Catholic to Orthodoxy, and what this actually tells us about him as the headmaster of St. Constantine in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
A Classical Orthodox Curriculum in a Lehigh Valley Setting
In this episode, Dr. Jenkins welcomes back the St. Constantine Headmaster, John Heitzenrater, to discuss what the school day will include for students, both what they will do in class, and what they will do outside (which will also be part of the class). Cyril and John also discuss what classical education does for our children, and why the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania is a great place for this endeavor.
To Love Learning is Never To Be Bored Again
Prof. Jenkins, to his great delight, is joined by two of his former students, Mrs. Monica Chilbert and Mrs. Madeleine Hewitt, who are both classical school teachers and moms, who are also themselves fast friends, but above all, devoted lovers of learning.
What hath Tolkien to do with Classical Learning?
Giving more fuel to the conspiracy theory that AFR is just all the same podcast, Prof. Jenkins welcomes back Prof. Bill Tighe to speak about their week with high school students studying Tolkien, and to discuss what the great author has to do with classical education and liberal learning.
Education's Purpose: The Creation of Lovers of Wisdom
Dr. Jenkins welcomes Messers Frank Chilbert and Thomas Sims, who are themselves teachers at classical academy, and who were once Dr. Jenkins's students. The discussion ranges from the desire for the good, to Tom's unloading on what the answer to the question about "know thyself" should really be.
Beauty in the World: A Headmaster's Vision for a School
Dr. Jenkins sits down in-studio with John Heitzenrater, the new headmaster of St. Constantine School of Lehigh Valley to speak about what the new school will be like both as regards nut-and-bolts, but also the vision of what this means in the lives of our children, and in the life of the Church.
Do you feel unlucky, Punk? Do you?
Today Dr. Jenkins welcomes Josh Gibbs of Veritas Academy, gibbsclassical.com, and author of How to Be Unlucky, and Something They Will Never Forget, both books dealing with classical education and the life of reflection.
The Texans are coming! The Texans are coming!
Dr. Jenkins introduces us to the St. Constantine School in Lehigh Valley's new headmaster, Mr. John Heitzenrater: classical educator, father of eleven, and a connoisseur of all things having to do with smoked meats.
Paying Intellectual Debts: The Legacy of Stratford Caldecott
Fr. Daniel Greeson of St. Anne Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and editor of the "Every Thought Captive" Ancient Faith blog joins Prof. Jenkins today as they discuss the life and legacy of the late Stratford Caldecott and what he says to us not only about education, but thinking and living and imagining.
Beauty for Truth's Sake
Dr. Timothy Patitsas joins Dr. Jenkins to discuss how all education and moral training is actually an exercise in aesthetics, and a training first and foremost in the love of beauty.
The Pursuit of God and the Love of Learning.
Dr. Cyril Jenkins interviews Prof. David Bradshaw of the Philosophy Department of the University of Kentucky on our present education predicament, what's needed to correct it, and how every Christian needs to be a philosopher.
Interview with Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
Dr. Cyril Jenkins interviews Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, chief content officer of Ancient Faith Ministries, about the importance of an Orthodox Christian education.
Children Properly Developed
Dr. Cyril Jenkins provides an update on the St. Constantine School and interviews Steven Christoforou, the Director of Y2AM and the host of Be the Bee, about the challenges facing contemporary Orthodox youth and what it means to properly develop our children.