This is Episode 21 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the importance of collaboration in Classical Christian Education because education in central to building up the kingdom of Christ: recovering a virtuous cultural and fighting the battle for the hearts and minds of the children of the Saints. Too often, Christians tend to silo and huddle around personal agendas and secondary and tertiary …
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This is Episode 20 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the Art of Rhetoric, including misconceptions about what it means, and why it’s so important for students to study in the modern age of cancel culture. Being apt in the art of rhetoric is part of what it means to be fully human. To be an apt rhetorician is to be able to …
Nobody's Coming: Students Taking Personal Responsibility For Their Education …
This is Episode 18 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. In this episode, Scott and Joffre are joined by Kepler CEO, Daniel Foucachon, to discuss the Kepler Model, a free-market approach to classical Christian education that empowers families by liberating teachers. Using a model similar to AirBNB allows families to connect directly with and choose from a variety of quality veteran teachers they want to teach their children. A unique …
This is Episode 17 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Since parents are responsible for their child’s education, it’s helpful if parents both know how to be good teachers and how to identify good teachers for their children when it’s appropriate to hire one. In his book, The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality, Marion Montgomery notes, “The good teacher must accept as a starting point …
This is Episode 16 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education. Aristotle famously noted that poetry is more philosophical than history because while history teaches what man has done in particular, poetry teaches us what he can and might do universally. This quite evident in George Herbert’s Poem, “The Church-Porch.” In this Episode, Scott Postma and Joffre Swait unpack a few stanzas of Herbert’s delightful poem and discuss the perennial human …