Educating Humans
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.
Podcasting since 2022 • 62 episodes
Educating Humans
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61. Dr Simon Kennedy - Against Worldview
Dr Simon Kennedy joins the podcast to discuss his book Against Worldview. Critiquing the 'worldview project' as a governing intention of Christian education, Simon proposes an active growth in wisdom as an alternative to an intell...
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Season 4
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Episode 61
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60. Schole Explained: Leisure, Worship, and the Right to Disconnect, Leisure, Part 6.
In the final episode about Josef Pieper's Leisure the Basis of Culture, we discuss the connection between leisure and worship and why secular holidays don't cut it. We also compare the totally consuming world of work to the one ring to...
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Season 4
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Episode 60
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59. Schole Explained: When it's Hard to Celebrate - Leisure, Part 4
Josef Pieper connects our ability for festival and celebration with schole and leisure. If in our schools we manage our celebrations and justify them with key learnings and outcomes, and asses their relative success or failure against a checkli...
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Season 4
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Episode 59
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58. Schole Explained: Acedia is the Leisure Killer - Leisure, Part 3
In Part 3 of the series on Leisure the Basis of Culture, the discussion is all about acedia and restlessness as the opposite to leisure.
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Season 4
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Episode 58
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57. Schole Explained: Hard Work is Good? - Leisure, Part 2
Our series explaining schole continues with part two on Leisure: The Basis of Culture. In this episode focusing on Chapter Two, we question how hard work and effort have come to be seen as the litmus test of successful educati...
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Season 4
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Episode 57
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