The Christopher Perrin Show

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Dr. Christopher Perrin has been a leader in the renewal of classical education in the United States for 25 years. In this podcast, he traces the renewal of the American paideia exploring the recent history of the American renaissance in light of the 2500 years that have preceded it. Christopher is the founding CEO of Classical Academic Press and the founder of ClassicalU.com. The Christopher Perrin Show is part of the TrueNorth.fm podcast network.

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Episode 39: Education for the Next Life

Apr 23 2024 14 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin traces that part of the Christian tradition of education that regarded education as a preparation not only for one's earthly life but ultimately for the next, heavenly life. Can such a heavenly focus be of real, earthly merit? The tradition says yes.

Episode 38: Repetition Is the Mother of Memory: The Permanent Learning of Petition

Apr 09 2024 12 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the pedagogical maximum of Repetitio Mater Memoriae, noting that repetition can be a delightful activity of seeking and experiencing the same good thing again and again until it is permanently possessed.

Episode 37: Multum non Multa: The Pedagogical Principle of Going Deep

Mar 26 2024 16 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the ways that teaching a few things deeply and well accelerates learning much better than by superficially covering or skimming over content.

Episode 36: Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly): The Pedagogical Maxim of Mastering Each Step

Mar 12 2024 14 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin retrieves and describes one of the most essential pedagogical principles every teacher should employ--the art of going farther and faster by going slower.

Episode 35: John Henry Newman and True Education

Feb 27 2024 19 mins

What is an educated mind? Newman says the mature mind "discerns the end in every beginning, the origin in every end, the law in every interruption, the limit in each delay; because it ever knows where it stands, and how its path lies from one point to another." In this episode, Dr. Perrin summarizes Newman on what the grand goal of education truly is--"the perfection of the intelle

Episode 34: Cutting School: Why Classical Schools Fragment Education and Turn Learning into Subjects

Nov 22 2023 22 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin laments the ways that classical schools, like progressives schools, regularly "cut up" the curriculum into too many disconnected fragments that become "subjects."

Episode 33: Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects

Oct 12 2023 13 mins

In this episode, Dr. Perrin explains the why classical schools still retain elements of their progressive counterparts and simply try to teach too much.

Episode 32: Friendship and Community in Education (Featuring Davies Owens)

Sep 14 2023 50 mins

In this episode, Davies Owens (from Basecamp Live) and I co-host the podcast and talk about the ways friendship and fellowship should be at the heart of classical education.

Episode 31: Powerful Education in the Great Tradition

Aug 31 2023 50 mins

In this episode Christopher Perrin discusses how formative and powerful a great education can be. Tradition is formative but a great tradition is transformative.

Episode 30: The Two Canons: The Biblical Books and the Great Books

Aug 17 2023 44 mins

It took a long while to fix the canon of Scripture; it also takes a while to determine that a book is truly a Great Book. Dr. Perrin argues that the process by which both canons are established is similar.