Education

In this lecture, Peter Crawford reflects on an anthropology of identity and its implications for the vocation of educators. (81 minutes)

In this lecture, Jonathan Sanford uses Plato’s Apology to explore what wisdom has to do with human flourishing. (49 minutes)

In this lecture, D. C. Schindler explores Plato’s ideas on education to argue that the essence of education is a revolution — a complete turning-around — of the soul toward God, reality, and the self. (44 minutes)

Justin Johnson argues that the anthropology and ontology of St. Maximus the Confessor provide a “user-friendly Augustinian framework” to teach literature. (59 minutes)

Heather Lloyd uses the legend of King Arthur to explore how to teach classical integrated humanities. (37 minutes)

Jeanne Schindler argues that three key technological inventions — the car, central heating, and digital devices — have contributed, respectively, to the loss of “at-homeness” people experience in the city, the home, and within ourselves. (50 minutes)

This Feature honors the life and legacy of Wendell Berry (1934–2026) with excerpts from interviews with Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Michael Stevens, and J. Matthew Bonzo. (20 minutes)

Darrell Falconbourg explains the tensions inherent in the word “revolution,” which in the classical sense meant a return to an origin and in modernity means a total rupture with the past. (41 minutes)

In this lecture, Malcolm Guite explains how the literary tradition is received, studied, indwelt, and then passed on as a living thing. (105 minutes)

This Feature presents excerpts from several guest interviews (with David I. Smith, Scott Newstok, Norman Klassen, and Jens Zimmermann) on the topic of education. (25 minutes)

FROM VOL. 151 Scott Newstok articulates patterns and “habit-inducing practices” that contain the possibility of intellectual growth. (24 minutes)

Josef Pieper on the mistake of confusing education with mere training

Ian Ker summarizes the central concern of John Henry Newman’s educational philosophy as developed in The Idea of a University

Stratford Caldecott on why education is about how we become more human, and therefore more free

Andrew Kern traces the ubiquity and power of the image of the temple throughout Scripture and discusses what its pattern means for education. (21 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Brian Brock, Fr. Luke Bell, Peter Harrison, Katie Calloway, Brent Strawn, and Petroc Willey

Stratford Caldecott on teaching in light of cosmic harmony

Hear excerpts from interviews with Daniel M. Bell Jr., Lew Daly, Adam K. Webb, Stratford Caldecott, James Matthew Wilson, and Thomas Hibbs. (30 minutes)

C. S. Lewis on why teachers must train the sentiments

Peter Crawford explores how a sacramental education involves helping students to behold a world saturated with signs that point to Christ — and then to act as faithful stewards. (68 minutes)