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 • 68 episodes
Educating Humans
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67. The Power of Reading in a Post-Literate World
Why should we read? In this episode, Difff and James discuss the startling statistics on the decline of reading across the West, as well as the power that developing our reading capacity can hold.
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Season 4
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Episode 67
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43:40
66. Medieval Enchantment, Difff's PhD
Difff explains his PhD, The Paradox of Enchantment: Syncretising Meteorology, Humoralism, and Demonology on the Early Modern English Stage. The discussion covers questions of enchantment and the 'discarded image' of the medieval m...
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Season 4
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Episode 66
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45:18
65. Brian Williams and Peter Crawford on the Poetic Mode
This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Education for Human Flourishing Conference. James was joined by Dr Brian Williams (Templeton Honors College) and Peter Crawford (Institute for Catholic Liberal Education) to discuss poetry and the poet...
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Season 4
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Episode 65
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64. The Hideous Strength of AI
In this talk from the Education for Human Flourishing Conference in 2025, Difff discusses the ways that artificial intelligence offers a false promise of restoring the logos, which has been systematically eroded and dismissed over the past mill...
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Season 4
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Episode 64
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50:30