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 • 63 episodes
Educating Humans
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62. Joseph Pearce - Tolkien, Shakespeare, and the Great Conversation
Joseph Pearce, the critically acclaimed Catholic author and biographer, addressed the community of St John Henry Newman College and the Brisbane Oratory in Formation in May 2025. His topic of 'Shakespeare and Tolkien: Literary Giants and Why th...
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Season 4
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Episode 62
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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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Episode 61
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60. Schole Explained: Leisure, Worship, and the Right to Disconnect - Leisure, Part 5
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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