Ep. 35 – Andrew Kern: What Happened to Classical Education?
This is Episode 35 of the Consortium Podcast, an academic audio blog of Kepler Education.
In this episode, Scott Postma talks with Andrew Kern of the CiRCE Institute about Classical Education and Andrew’s 3-part article, What Happened to Classical Education? Listen in as Andrew brilliantly answers some of the big questions educators should be (and are) asking: What is classical education? What forms or variations does it offer? Is it an identifiable method? Is it a formula or even a form? Is it a creed, a value system, a set of skills? What do we mean when we claim to be classical educators?
[…] In a recent article on classical education, Andrew Kern of the CiRCE Institute made the astute observation that confirms this view. He writes, “From the 15th to 17th Centuries a shift in expectations took place that was so total that the Christian classical approach was overthrown for something that doesn’t work but generates many short-term gains.”1 After offering 11 proofs that demonstrate his assertion, he concludes by explaining, “the cultivation of virtue, was replaced by method while each of the liberal arts were reduced to an inept caricature of what they had been previously understood to be and do.” [Listen to my conversation with Andrew Kern about Classical Education] […]