Educating Humans

Oct 15 2024 47 ep. 38 mins 10

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Discussions about Classical and Liberal Arts education in Primary and Secondary schools in Australia. What is it, how it might be achieved, and most importantly, why it matters.

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46. What's Wrong with Modern Education - Ethics

Oct 15 2024 49 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!Having discussed the metaphysical and epistemological ruptures that have impacted education, Difff & James move to ethics. If all education points students towards some conception of good, what is good? How can we come to understand good, especially in a flattened materialist world which doubts our capacity to know, or rel

45. What's Wrong with Modern Education - Epistemology

Sep 11 2024 41 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!In the second episode asking the question of what is wrong with modern progressive education, Difff & James discuss epistemology - the branch of philosophy that deals with questions of what is knowledge, what is knowable, and how we come to know things. The implications of a reduced metaphysics are a fragmented and relativ

44. What's Wrong with Modern Education - Metaphysics

Aug 21 2024 29 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!In the first of four episodes attempting to detail some of the major differences between classical and modern or progressive education, Difff and James discuss metaphysics. Rather than going after specific particular elements of modern education that are problematic, they approach it from a philosophical perspective, recognisi

43. Who Controls Classroom Content?

Aug 11 2024 33 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!Difff and James have another amiable argument about a contentious issue in education. This time, we're asking how much say teachers should have over what and how they teach in the classroom? Does a top-down approach stifle teacher autonomy and creativity and create situations where students are not met where they are at? Or is

42. Wisdom & Harmony

Jul 24 2024 28 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!What role does the concept of harmony play in education? This episode is a talk that was presented by Difff at the Brisbane Classical Education Conference in June 2024. Focusing on the work of St John Henry Newman, Difff discusses how true education is a harmonising process, designed to conform the soul to reality, and to reco

41. St John Henry Newman College - Kenneth Crowther

Jul 03 2024 33 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!Difff adopts his real name - Kenneth Crowther - and discusses St John Henry Newman College with James. Newman College is a new classical school starting in 2026 in Brisbane, and Kenneth is the school's first principal. In this episode, he explains the school's approach to classical education, the mission and vision of Newman C

40. Ben McCabe - Augustine Academy

Jun 10 2024 56 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!Difff & James are joined by Ben McCabe, who runs the Augustine Academy. The Academy offers a Certificate IV for students between 16 and 19 years of age. Primarily designed for homeschoolers as a way for them to gain an accredited certification for university entry, the Academy is a one year course in Literature, Philosophy

39. Are Parents the Primary Educators?

May 28 2024 43 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!You've probably heard the saying before, that parents are the primary educators of their children. In fact, it has been said on this very podcast. But are they? And if they are, what does this really mean? Difff and James engage in a pseudo-debate about the topic to try to get to the heart of the proposition. They end up discu

38. The Paideia Approach

May 19 2024 18 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!The Paideia Approach is a theory and practice of education proposed by a number of luminaries including Mortimer Adler. In this episode, James discusses the Paideia way to think about curriculum design, such as anchoring subjects of study in The Great Ideas, as well as pedagogical design, such as the use of the lecture, academ

37. On the Reading of Old Books

Apr 18 2024 30 mins

Got questions about Classical Education? Send us a text!C.S. Lewis' 'On the Reading of Old Books' is the topic of discussion in this episode of Educating Humans. James reads most of the excerpt unabridged, and then the conversation ensues, touching on various topics based upon Lewis' main point that old books provide a lens and viewpoint that is foreign to our own and therefore val