The Christopher Perrin Show
Education Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Contact:
1-717-857-3362
Episodes
Episode 39: Education for the Next Life
4/23/2024
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.
Duration:00:14:48
Episode 38: Repetition Is the Mother of Memory: The Permanent Learning of Petition
4/9/2024
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.
Duration:00:12:00
Episode 37: Multum non Multa: The Pedagogical Principle of Going Deep
3/26/2024
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.
Duration:00:16:30
Episode 36: Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly): The Pedagogical Maxim of Mastering Each Step
3/12/2024
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.
Duration:00:14:16
Episode 35: John Henry Newman and True Education
2/27/2024
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 intellect."
Duration:00:19:19
Episode 34: Cutting School: Why Classical Schools Fragment Education and Turn Learning into Subjects
11/22/2023
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."
Duration:00:22:54
Episode 33: Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects
10/12/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin explains the why classical schools still retain elements of their progressive counterparts and simply try to teach too much.
Duration:00:50:18
Episode 32: Friendship and Community in Education (Featuring Davies Owens)
9/14/2023
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.
Duration:00:50:18
Episode 31: Powerful Education in the Great Tradition
8/31/2023
In this episode Christopher Perrin discusses how formative and powerful a great education can be. Tradition is formative but a great tradition is transformative.
Duration:00:38:28
Episode 30: The Two Canons: The Biblical Books and the Great Books
8/17/2023
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.
Duration:00:44:56
Episode 29: The Virtue of Faith
8/3/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues to explore faith as a theological virtue.
Duration:00:17:02
Episode 28: The Theological Virtues
7/20/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores how theological virtues such as faith, hope, and love complement the four cardinal virtues.
Duration:00:30:31
Episode 27: The Cardinal Virtue of Justice
7/6/2023
In this episode Dr. Perrin describes justice as the virtue that enable us to act properly and fairly after having accurately perceived what is real, or the true state of affairs.
Duration:00:26:24
Episode 26: The Classical Canon
6/22/2023
Duration:00:45:56
Episode 25: The Virtue of Prudence (Part Two): False Prudence
6/8/2023
In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence can become falsified so that we are not able to perceive what is truly real.
Duration:00:14:24
Episode 24: The Virtue of Prudence (Part One): True Prudence
5/25/2023
In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence was the chief, governing virtues among the all of the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
Duration:00:22:37
Episode 23: The Virtue of Fortitude in Teaching
5/11/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues exploring the virtue of fortitude and he discusses the fortitude that is necessary to be a teacher.
Duration:00:07:26
Episode 22: The Virtue of Fortitude in Classical Education
4/27/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses the virtue of fortitude in classical education and how it relates to teaching.
Duration:00:19:11
Episode 21: The Importance of Shakespeare in Classical Education, Part II
3/30/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues his discussion with Tim McIntosh, a former professor at Gutenberg College and a current creative director, actor, and playwright. They discuss the importance of Shakespeare and other great authors in classical education, and particularly how plays and other creative outlets positively impact students.
Duration:01:38:02
Episode 20: The Importance of Shakespeare in Classical Education
3/6/2023
In this episode, Dr. Perrin talks with Tim McIntosh, a former professor at Gutenberg College and a current creative director, actor, and playwright. They discuss the importance of Shakespeare and other great authors in classical education, and particularly how plays and other creative outlets positively impact students.
Duration:01:13:54