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Raising Students to Seek Truth in Postmodern Times | The Four, Ep. 19

What do people get wrong about Socratic discussion? Are classical Christian schools just the latest version of college prep?
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The Four

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Can Bad Men be Good Rhetoricians? | The Four, Ep. 20
Do words merely express our thoughts, or do they shape them?
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Raising Students to Seek Truth in Postmodern Times | The Four, Ep. 19
What do people get wrong about Socratic discussion? Are classical Christian schools just the latest version of college prep?
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Defending Fine Arts Against Modern Culture | The Four, Ep. 18
David, Heather, Devin, and Kajsa explore the role of fine arts within classical Christian education.
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Artes Mechanicae

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Why Does Human Error Create Value? | How Craftsmanship Creates Better Teachers | Artes Mechanicae, Ep. 20
Can teaching ever be guaranteed to succeed? Is there something more valuable in an artifact made by hand, as opposed to one made by machine?
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Fixing America Through Mechanical Arts | Artes Mechanicae, Ep. 18
What are the mechanical arts for? Are they simply a means of producing more things to consume, or do they point us toward a better way of living?
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When "Professionalism" Kills Human Worth | Artes Mechanicae, Ep. 17
Credentialism, specialization, and technology promise efficiency — but what happens when they begin replacing ordinary human wisdom and compassion?
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Isidore's Pub

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The Word "Goodbye" is More Interesting than You Thought | Isidore's Pub, Ep. 15
Devin O’Donnell is back with another word — Goodbye.
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The Sin of Our Generation: The Origins of Cowardice | Isidore's Pub, Ep. 14
What is the difference between courage and mere daring? And why does the corruption of words eventually become the corruption of thought itself?
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Sorcery & Dante's Inferno | Isidore's Pub, Ep. 13
Devin O’Donnell is back with another word: Sorcery!
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"There is only the fight to recover what has been lost / And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions / That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. / For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
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How Do We Trust Students to Not Cheat? | Austin Freeman Interview
What happens when students can outsource their thinking to AI?
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Pursue Handwork for the Sake of Humanity
When we divorce vocation and skill — the process from the consumer — we create room for moral issues. Handcraft helps us learn moral virtue.
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Apple Pie and Rocket Ships: A Hopeful Vision of Life with Artificial Technology - C.R. Wiley
How should we live with AI as humans, educators, and as Christians? Is efficiency our highest value, or is that value meant to be something entirely…
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Jonathan Pageau on Returning to the Old Stories
Full interview with Devin O'Donnell
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Sunset Upon Reading and Night Upon the Book
What the death of a literate culture means for classical learning — by Devin O'Donnell
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Stamp Eternity on my Eyeballs
The lens through which we perceive our students will determine how we educate them. If indeed we desire to lead our students to the feet of the Master…
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Why Leisure Might Save You from Hell
An oldie from the CiRCE Blog, published here with permission from the "auctor"
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"Put a pin in that"
Sonnets to the corporate world by Devin O'Donnell
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"There is only the fight to recover what has been lost / And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions / That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. / For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
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