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The Ask Andrew Podcast features weekly reflections on the purpose and nature of classical education from Andrew Kern, author of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping American, and President of the CiRCE Institute. Each week Andrew will tackle a key idea, term, or theme in classical education, briefly defining it and explaining its purpose and place within classical pedagogy.

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Episode Date
Thoroughness and Charm, with Mandi Gerth
Feb 24, 2025
What is the Moral Imagination and How is it Formed?
Dec 17, 2024
What is the Goal of Teaching Classic Literature?
Dec 10, 2024
Developing Habits—Cosmos and Chaos
Aug 01, 2024
The Two Dreams
Jul 25, 2024
What difference does glory make in the way we think about the world?
Jul 10, 2024
What Did You Learn from Writing Your Book? (Pt. 2)
Jul 03, 2024
What Did You Learn from Writing Your Book?
Jun 05, 2024
How Do We See the Glory?
May 29, 2024
What Is the Glory of a Thing?
May 22, 2024
How Do We Teach the Glory of a Thing?
May 01, 2024
How Can I be Sure My Student Encounters the Reality?
Apr 24, 2024
How Will the Temple Pattern Help My Child Love Learning?
Apr 17, 2024
The Temple: An Example from Education
Apr 03, 2024
The Temple: An Example of the Pattern of Revelation
Mar 27, 2024
The Temple: How is it a Pattern of Revelation?
Mar 20, 2024
The Temple: What is its pattern?
Mar 13, 2024
The Temple: Why Does it Matter?
Mar 07, 2024
On Grammar and Interpreting Signs
Mar 15, 2021
How Does Rhetoric Teach Students to Read? (Part 2)
Feb 15, 2021
How Does Rhetoric Teach Students To Read?
Feb 08, 2021
Ways of coping for the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual realms
Feb 01, 2021
More thoughts on living through crisis, plus audience Q&A
Jan 26, 2021
Further Thoughts on Living within Crisis
Dec 02, 2020
Further Thoughts on Rhetoric plus some thoughts on living in the world of Covid-19
Nov 24, 2020
Thoughts on the Relationship Between the Arts, Sciences, and Reason
Nov 03, 2020
Further Thoughts on the Definition of Rhetoric
Oct 08, 2020
On Definitions of Rhetoric
Sep 24, 2020
How should I structure the day when students have multiple needs?
Sep 11, 2020
How do I adapt classical education to the modern system?
Aug 27, 2020
How do I teach history classically?
Aug 12, 2020
How God Taught Adam in the Garden
Aug 05, 2020
How should I respond to my reluctant learner?
Jul 28, 2020
What Are the Basic Fundamental Literary Skills?
Jul 21, 2020
How should we use "the should question"?
Jul 14, 2020
On Tools for Making Connections
Jul 07, 2020
On Catechism in Education (part 4)
Jul 01, 2019
On Catechism in Education (Part 3)
Jun 03, 2019
On Catechism in Education (Part 2)
Mar 01, 2019
On Catechism in Education (Part 1)
Feb 22, 2019
What is the purpose of the k-12 education?
Feb 14, 2019
Why are the common topics so important?
Feb 01, 2019
Why do you claim that the "Iliad" is the best handbook for rhetoric?
Feb 01, 2019
Why do we need a cosmology other than the one provided by current science?
Jan 18, 2019
What are the top 5 ideals any classical school should embody?
Jan 10, 2019
What is an "ideal type" and does it necessarily lead to moralizing?
Jan 03, 2019
Why did we name our annual Paideia Prize after Russell Kirk?
Oct 19, 2018
Some Final Thoughts on Getting a Classical Education As an Adult
Oct 10, 2018
On Pursuing a Deeper Understanding of Classical Education
Oct 02, 2018
How to Pursue Your Goals of Self-Education
Sep 26, 2018
More on Getting a Classical Education As an Adult: Setting Goals
Sep 20, 2018
Where Should I Start If I Want to Get a Classical Education As An Adult
Sep 12, 2018
On the Importance of "Adequacy" in teaching
Jul 11, 2018
What Are the Tools for Truth Perception?
Jul 03, 2018
What is the "Art of Truth-fishing"?
Jun 29, 2018
Why Is Astronomy Concerned an Important Part of the Quadrivium?
Jun 16, 2018
Ask Andrew: What Joy and Harmony Have to Do with Assessment
Jun 01, 2018
How Do I Assess an Idea?
May 23, 2018
How Do I Assess a Skill?
May 16, 2018
Do you need to love a subject to teach it effectively?
May 12, 2018
What does a good assessment look like? Part 2
May 03, 2018
What does a good assessment look like?
Apr 28, 2018
What does it mean to assess classically?
Apr 18, 2018
What is the "great dance" and why does it matter?
Apr 13, 2018
Is There a Universal Curriculum That Is Good for All People?
Mar 22, 2018
Does Classical Education Value African Culture Or Want to Replace It (and other non-western cultures)?
Mar 14, 2018
Can a classical curriculum include more than Western culture?
Mar 07, 2018
What should classical education look like in other parts of the world?
Feb 28, 2018
What is the classical pedagogy?
Feb 14, 2018
What is the Classical Curriculum?
Feb 08, 2018
Why did Dorothy Sayers' interpretation of the trivium become so popular?
Jan 31, 2018
What is Wisdom (and how is it cultivated)?
Jan 24, 2018
What is Virtue (and how is it cultivated)?
Jan 18, 2018
What does classical education have to do with "knowing, glorifying, and enjoying God"?
Jan 03, 2018
Why Are the Liberal Arts So Important?
Dec 20, 2017
What does it mean to say that our children are imitations?
Dec 14, 2017
What is the Quadrivium?
Dec 06, 2017
What are the 7 Liberal Arts?
Nov 29, 2017
So What is Christian Classical Education?
Nov 22, 2017
Welcome to the new Ask Andrew Podcast
Nov 09, 2017
How do you avoid moralizing a "morality tale"?
Jul 26, 2016
How to Avoid Moralizing Stories (and Why It's Important)
Jul 13, 2016
Is Calculus Lost on the Homemaker?
Jul 06, 2016
Why does my daughter find it difficult to connect with mythology?
May 31, 2016
How does one train a child's affections
May 24, 2016
How do I know what questions my students should be asking?
May 17, 2016
How do I teach fables?
May 10, 2016
What does "neo-classical" mean?
Apr 23, 2016
On Moralizing Stories
Apr 16, 2016
Why is the magic in Lewis and Tolkien ok?
Apr 08, 2016
Why "CiRCE"?
Apr 02, 2016
What do wisdom and virtue have to do with holiness?
Mar 24, 2016
Why Read the Classics (when even the good guys do bad things)?
Mar 17, 2016
Cultivating an Appreciation of Good Music
Mar 08, 2016
What should we do about screen time and our kids?
Mar 01, 2016
On Books for Personal and Professional Development
Apr 13, 2015
How do I introduce my middle school child to classical education?
Apr 06, 2015
Is classical education a method, or is it about materials? (Part 2)
Mar 09, 2015
Is classical education a method, or is it about materials? (Part 1)
Mar 02, 2015
I teach in a modern school, but I want to affect change and educate myself. Advice?
Feb 03, 2015
What do you mean when you say, "We are what we listen to?"
Jan 06, 2015
Tips and Advice on Teaching and Learning Latin
Oct 07, 2014
What's the big deal about Homer?
Sep 02, 2014
Were the Greeks more human than we are?
Aug 04, 2014
How can I begin to classically educate my highschool student?
Mar 04, 2014
Questions to Ask when Teaching Literature
Feb 04, 2014
How do I teach the reluctant student?
Mar 04, 2013
I need inspiration and a model
Nov 01, 2012
How do I give my children this education when I did not have it myself?
Sep 10, 2012
What is virtue?
Sep 03, 2012