This is Episode 15 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Cardinal John Henry Newman said that “A University seems to be in its essence, a place for the communication and the circulation of thought, by means of personal intercourse, through a wide extent of country.” When we use the word University in the academic sense, we are technically shortening the phrase, universitas magistrorum et scholarium, meaning a “community of masters and scholars.” …
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This is Episode 14 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre talk with Jonathan Roberts of the Ancient Language Institute about the best approaches to language acquisition and the benefits of learning ancient languages when obtaining a liberal arts education. Kepler Education offers a number of language courses, both ancient and modern, for 5th grade all the way up to adult learners. …
This is Episode 13 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the importance of poetry in a liberal arts education. Poetry is more philosophical than history, says Aristotle. And this means poetry gives us insight into the human condition: what humans might do as opposed to history, which tells us what humans have done. The Romantic poet, Percy Shelley noted that poets are the …
This is Episode 12 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. This episode was recorded for Easter but due to technical difficulties recording a previous podcast, it was delayed. The content is nevertheless still quite relevant given Easter is the celebration of the most important event in human history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection absolutely changed everything, including education, since by it Christ “re-formed the human race” as Irenaeus …
This is Episode 11 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode is Scott Postma and Joffre Swait interview Roxana Corradino, an artist, college professor, and Kepler teacher, and discuss visual communications and the importance of its study in a liberal arts education. Images and signs are all around us. But unless we are aware that every day we are being bombarded with ideas, subtly, in the form of …
This is Episode 10 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait get practical about a classical liberal arts education. They discuss how one goes about getting a liberal arts education, practically. There is a river we call classical education, a river with banks to be sure, but a river that runs deep and wide, nonetheless. Families are empowered by God to decide how …