Dr. Christopher Perrin has been a leader in the renewal of classical education in the United States for 25 years. In this podcast, he traces the renewal of the American paideia exploring the recent history of the American renaissance in light of the 2500 years that have preceded it. Christopher is the founding CEO of Classical Academic Press and the founder of ClassicalU.com. The Christopher Perrin Show is part of the TrueNorth.fm podcast network.
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Episode 43: 20 Words You Must Know to Understand Education: What Education Really Is
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin notes the ways we have forgotten the meaning of words that related to education and revives the meaning of about 20 key words we need to know in order to better understand what education really is.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 42: Education as Hospitality and Healing
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the way that Christian classical education must offer hospitality to students seeking an intellectual home and healing to the sickness of their souls. While this is not the whole of a robust classical education, it is integral and vital part. (Also with connections to Augustine: Rejoicing in the Truth by Jeffre…
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Episode 41: Scholé over Schooling: Learning to be Mary in a Society of Martha
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses the difficulty and the importance of keeping with classical learning throughout the entirety of a student's education, and of finding times to be wisdom-seeking Mary in a society that expects everyone to be always-busy Martha.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 40: The Best Teacher is a Good Book
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In this episode Dr. Perrin considers this traditional maxim. Can authors and their books become meaningful teachers and even life-long friends? What is the link between an author and authority? Do we still need living teachers if we have really good books?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 39: Education for the Next Life
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin traces that part of the Christian tradition of education that regarded education as a preparation not only for one's earthly life but ultimately for the next, heavenly life. Can such a heavenly focus be of real, earthly merit? The tradition says yes.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 38: Repetition Is the Mother of Memory: The Permanent Learning of Petition
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the pedagogical maximum of Repetitio Mater Memoriae, noting that repetition can be a delightful activity of seeking and experiencing the same good thing again and again until it is permanently possessed.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 37: Multum non Multa: The Pedagogical Principle of Going Deep
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the ways that teaching a few things deeply and well accelerates learning much better than by superficially covering or skimming over content.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 36: Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly): The Pedagogical Maxim of Mastering Each Step
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin retrieves and describes one of the most essential pedagogical principles every teacher should employ--the art of going farther and faster by going slower.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 35: John Henry Newman and True Education
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What is an educated mind? Newman says the mature mind "discerns the end in every beginning, the origin in every end, the law in every interruption, the limit in each delay; because it ever knows where it stands, and how its path lies from one point to another." In this episode, Dr. Perrin summarizes Newman on what the grand goal of education truly …
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Episode 34: Cutting School: Why Classical Schools Fragment Education and Turn Learning into Subjects
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin laments the ways that classical schools, like progressives schools, regularly "cut up" the curriculum into too many disconnected fragments that become "subjects."Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 33: Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explains the why classical schools still retain elements of their progressive counterparts and simply try to teach too much.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 32: Friendship and Community in Education (Featuring Davies Owens)
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In this episode, Davies Owens (from Basecamp Live) and I co-host the podcast and talk about the ways friendship and fellowship should be at the heart of classical education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 31: Powerful Education in the Great Tradition
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In this episode Christopher Perrin discusses how formative and powerful a great education can be. Tradition is formative but a great tradition is transformative.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 30: The Two Canons: The Biblical Books and the Great Books
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It took a long while to fix the canon of Scripture; it also takes a while to determine that a book is truly a Great Book. Dr. Perrin argues that the process by which both canons are established is similar.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 29: The Virtue of Faith
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues to explore faith as a theological virtue.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 28: The Theological Virtues
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores how theological virtues such as faith, hope, and love complement the four cardinal virtues.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 27: The Cardinal Virtue of Justice
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In this episode Dr. Perrin describes justice as the virtue that enable us to act properly and fairly after having accurately perceived what is real, or the true state of affairs.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 26: The Classical Canon
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Episode 25: The Virtue of Prudence (Part Two): False Prudence
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In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence can become falsified so that we are not able to perceive what is truly real.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 24: The Virtue of Prudence (Part One): True Prudence
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In this episode Dr. Perrin describes how prudence was the chief, governing virtues among the all of the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 23: The Virtue of Fortitude in Teaching
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues exploring the virtue of fortitude and he discusses the fortitude that is necessary to be a teacher.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 22: The Virtue of Fortitude in Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses the virtue of fortitude in classical education and how it relates to teaching.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 21: The Importance of Shakespeare in Classical Education, Part II
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin continues his discussion with Tim McIntosh, a former professor at Gutenberg College and a current creative director, actor, and playwright. They discuss the importance of Shakespeare and other great authors in classical education, and particularly how plays and other creative outlets positively impact students.…
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Episode 20: The Importance of Shakespeare in Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin talks with Tim McIntosh, a former professor at Gutenberg College and a current creative director, actor, and playwright. They discuss the importance of Shakespeare and other great authors in classical education, and particularly how plays and other creative outlets positively impact students.…
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Episode 19: The Importance of Temperance in Life and Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the importance of temperance in everyday life and in education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 18: The Importance of Friendship in Life and Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the importance of friendship in everyday life and in education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 17: Metaphors in Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes how metaphors can be used to understand classical education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 16: Classical Education and Christian Nationalism
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores the meaning of Christian nationalism and how it relates to classical education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 15: Remembering Augustine as Historian, Philosopher, & Teacher
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores the many contributions Augustine made to the modern understanding of history, education, philosophy, and theology.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 14: The Significance of Augustine and Kuyper in CCE
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin describes the ongoing importance and relevance of both Augustine and Kuyper in classical Christian education.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 13: Recovering the Word "College" to Renew Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores the meaning of the word, "college" and its role in classical education. What does a college curriculum look like today and how does it compare to what it could look like if classical methods were applied?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 12: Recovering the Word "Education" to Renew Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin explores the true meaning of the word, "education". What do we mean when we use it and how has this meaning changed over the course of history?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 11: Recovering the Word "Student" to Renew Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin builds upon Episode 10 by exploring the etymologies and histories behind words that are commonly used in education today.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 10: Recovering a Vocabulary for Classical Education
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses words and their importance in education. What words do we use in traditional liberal education? How have we lost the meanings of certain words in our lives?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 09: Starting a Classical College
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In this episode, Dr. Perrin and Greg Wilbur of New College Franklin discuss the importance of the intersection between theology and classical education. This conversation was recorded at CiRCE Institute National Conference in Charleston.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 08: The Practice of Lamentation
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How have we, as a modern society, forgotten how to lament? What could lamentation do for us, on an individual level and as a whole?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 07: The Resurgence of Classical Education Among African Americans
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What was the earliest classical school for African Americans and what effect did it have on the resurgence of the classical movement today?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 06: What Does Jerusalem Have to Do With Athens?
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How do we encounter the classical tradition? How do we engage with the sacred inheritance of great writings?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 05: The Sacred Synthesis
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What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens? Can the Greek and Roman tradition of classical thought be harmonized with what is taught in the Old and New Testaments or in the Christian tradition?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 04: The Great Idea of the Liberal Arts
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What are the liberal arts? Why are they liberal? And why are they arts?Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 03: The Great Idea of the Great Conversation
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Conversation is a dance of ideas with at least one partner. Find out why.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 02: The Great Idea of Virtue
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What is it for which education should aim and seek? Virtue. Find out why.Oleh Christopher Perrin
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Episode 01: The Great Idea of Wisdom
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In this inaugural episode, Dr. Perrin make a case for wisdom being the chief aim of education. Sadly, few us can even define wisdom much less know how to...Oleh Christopher Perrin
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