Education

FEATURED GUESTS: Maggie Jackson, Mark Bauerlein, Tim Clydesdale, Andy Crouch, and Jeremy Begbie

FEATURED GUESTS: Jake Halpern, Stephen J. Nichols, Richard M. Gamble, Peter J. Leithart, Bill Vitek, and Craig Holdrege

Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann trace the history of higher education from its medieval roots to the present, focusing on how educational agendas have been assembled in light of shifting understandings of the nature of knowledge and the nature of human well-being. (6 hours 30 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Diana Pavlov Glyer, Michael J. Lewis, Steve Talbott, Darryl Tippens, Everett Ferguson, Alexander Lingas, and Calvin Stapert

Alasdair MacIntyre on the importance of theology in liberal arts education

Louise Cowan insists that what we label the classics “have become classics because they elicit greatness of soul,” and that such aspiration can only be informed by such works. (35 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Murray Milner, Jr., Steven C. Vryhof, Douglas J. Schuurman, Robert Gagnon, Richard Stivers, and Quentin Schultze

FEATURED GUESTS: Ian Dowbiggin, Arthur J. Dyck, Daniel Dreisbach, Michael L. Peterson, Stephen Schwartz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and John Timmerman

FEATURED GUESTS: Tom Shippey, Jeffrey Meyers, Ralph McInerny, Daniel Ritchie, Ian Ker, Mark Schwehn, Gilbert Meilaender, and Tiina Nunnally.

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Bruce S. Thornton, A. J. Conyers, Stanton L. Jones, Arthur F. Holmes, Carson Holloway, Ted Prescott, and Glenn Arbery

FEATURED GUESTS: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Roger Lundin, Wilfred McClay, Andrew A. Tadie, Robert Jenson, Ted Prescott, and Ted Libbey

Barry Sanders discusses teaching in the age of technology, the effects of literacy on society, and the links between illiteracy and violence. (54 minutes)