The Classical Homeschool

This is our last episode of the season, and we get to wrap up with John Hodges from The Center of Western Studies . The Center of Western Studies also has a podcast, From the Center! If you would like to hear more of John Hodges talk check out the Circe Institute and Paideia Fellowship. In this episode, we start the journey towards the moral imagination which will be the topic for season four. If you have any questions or topics you want covered concerning the moral imagination, drop us a line!

Join us for a lively interview on Erasmus and his contribution to the Great Tradition. 

Classical education in the 1800's was being revitalized by a University Professor!

We're back! Thank you for bearing with us through the long unintentional break. Over the holidays, we needed to catch up and recalibrate for the season. We normally air this type episode at the end of the season, but we are bringing it to you today! We are talking about the living books that we love to use in our homeschools. So, leave us a comment here or in the Facebook book group, The Classical Homeschool Podcast Discussion Group with your favorite living books.

Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline. She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason’s methods from beginning to end. She has been studying and writing about Charlotte Mason and Classical Education for over twenty years, and has written Consider This to share the most important things she has discovered about the connection between them.

If you're looking for some inspiration for your Black Friday, look no further! Cicero and the Great Tradition are here to save the day. Slow down and treat yourself to a conversation about reading good books, living in community, and how self-knowledge can be a necessary part of growing towards God. 

Delve into the works of Aristotle with us in the this episode. Jennifer and I are wrestling through some deeper concepts that govern leisure, music, the tripartite man, and much more. If you are interested, head over to Facebook for The Classical Homeschool Discussion Group. We would love to hear your thoughts and explore these texts deeper with you.

In this episode, we explore a new option for high school students: The Classical Learning Test

Exploring the idea of knowing the Truth and doing the Good, we focus this episode on the great rhetorician, Isocrates. Isocrates frames the student/teacher relationship in terms of forming an adult. We also talk about the differences in approaches between Plato and Isocrates and why they are both valuable. 

The name of Plato and Socrates are linked not only to one another but to the classical tradition. In this episode, we explore how virtue is awakened in the soul while comparing and contrasting the primary source (The Great Tradition) and the references (Norms and Nobility). 

Today we begin our exploration of the people who shaped classical education with an interview with Richard M. Gamble, author of 'The Great Tradition: Classic Writings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being'. Mr. Gamble is also a professor of History and the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Professor of History and Politics at Hillsdale College.

#21: Our Journey in Books: The Literature Edition

#20: Saving the Appearances: An Interview with Matt Bianco

#19: An Interview with Gregory Wilbur on Astronomy and Harmonics

#18: Geometry: The Liberal Art of Continuous Quantity