Digressio: Inherit the Humanities

Ep 3 - Classical Education as Inheriting the Humanities

Daniel Foucachon, Cooper Salmon Season 1 Episode 3

What is classical education? Is it a way of teaching (pedagogy) or is it the topics covered (subject)? We explore Daniel's answer and see how it dovetails with sharing the Gospel.

Ep 3 - Classical Education as Inheriting the Humanities

  1. What is classical education? Pedagogy vs. Subject
  2. The inheritance of the West
  3. “The Humanities”: an integrated approach to many subjects, Calculus For Everyone
  4. An inheritance for who?
  5. Americans’ Roman worldview
  6. Different cultural understandings of the Gospel: guilt vs. innocence, shame vs. honor, confidence vs. fear
  7. Studying the humanities shows us who we are
  8. Why read pagans as Christians? Fitting Words
  9. Superficially Christian education
  10. Western inheritance: the weird uncle
  11. Conclusion

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