This is Episode 24 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In episode 24 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre discuss the Socratic dialogue in the classroom. Just like all good conversation, Socratic dialogue is an art—a skill that can be improved with practice. But Socratic dialogue, unlike casual conversation, has a particular aim—to discover the truth or meaning of something to the end that we might live wisely and flourish as human beings. Using elenchus, an investigative means of inquiry that is meant to discover fallacies in one’s argument or worldview—like peeling layers of an onion—teachers act as midwives, and help students give birth to truth.

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This is Episode 23 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In episode 23 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre discuss the art of conversation in the classroom. Since conversation is an art, it is a skill that can be improved upon; and in this episode, our hosts unpack the ways in which students can develop the craft of conversation and successfully participate in Socratic dialogues in an online classroom.

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This is Episode 22 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In episode 22 of the Everlasting Education Podcast, Scott and Joffre take slightly different approach to St. Augustine's call to Christians to be "wise and eloquent" by introducing a new series on the noble art and science of rhetoric using instead, the mythological gods, Odin and Mercury, as models of language formation and influence. For example, the names of the days and months in the calendar are formed by each culture's view of the mythological gods' powers rather than their station in the pantheon.

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This is Episode 21 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In this episode, Scott and Joffre talk about the importance of books and how we all can become classically educated by developing a habit of acquiring, carrying, and reading books. In a technological world filled with pixels, a love for reading books must be developed intentionally through wonder, curiosity, and the planned neglect of activities of lesser value.

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This is Episode 20 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

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This is Episode 19 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In this episode, Scott and Joffre discuss the manner in which education, though immeasurable, is observable. On the one hand, attempting to measure education can lead to conflating "good grades" with "true education." On the other hand, failing to measure education in any capacity can lead to a false sense of educational achievement (i.e., to flourish as a human being). By recognizing the characteristics of an educated person, one can observe whether or not—or to what degree—a student is being educated.

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This is Episode 18 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In this episode, Scott and Joffre read and discuss the virtues of speaking up, speaking out, and speaking well. While we all have seemingly legitimate reasons for sitting back, Christian young people—especially young men—should practice taking the opportunity to speak when it’s appropriate. This is a fundamental aspect of a human education, however uncomfortable it may seem to do so. St. Augustine duly noted that Christians need to be both wise and eloquent amidst a world without sound reason or properly ordered loves.

This is Episode 17 of The Everlasting Education Podcast, a Kepler Education Production.

In this episode, Scott and Joffre read and discuss Abraham Kuyper's treatise, Sheep Among the Wolves.

Abraham Kuyper was a leader in the movement for education reform in the Netherlands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A prolific intellectual, Kuyper also founded a political party (the Anti-Revolutionary Party), a denomination, and a university. Additionally, he led the movement to reform elementary schools, served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901-1905, and was a prolific writer. In addition to confessional studies, historical works, journalistic works, and political treatise, he also wrote more than 1300 devotional and theological treatises in his lifetime.

Sheep Among the Wolves is an example of Kuyper's views on Christian parents' responsibility to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and not send them to schools where the values of the home are not represented. It is true that Jesus sent his disciples into the world as sheep among the wolves—but not until they had been raised to maturity. As Kuyper so eloquently asserts, parents who send their sheep among the wolves before they are actually ready are not only unwise but also demonstrate their own immaturity in Christ.