Are classical educators idealists? Is an Ideal Type necessary to an educational philosophy? What even is an Ideal Type and why is it capitalized? Today’s conversation, recorded on location in Dallas while the sisters were together for the annual retreat. We discussed chapter 4 in Norms & Nobility and the claims it makes about education…
Everyone has an educational philosophy, whether they’ve thought about it or not. But it’s so much better if we think about it, especially if we’re spending half our days (or more!) educating people! In episode 110 we discussed the first essential question for an educational philosophy: What is a human? After all, every education starts…
This is the second in our three-part series on building out your educational philosophy. Part 1 was episode 110 – “What is a human?” As a follow-up to episode 106: Stop Looking for Hacks (You Need a Philosophy), this series aims to get the conversational ball rolling, not to give definitive answers. In episode #106,…
You can’t educate a person – or even be an educated person – without having an answer to the question, “What is a human?” Understanding begins with definitions, and definitions point us to the telos of a thing, the purpose of a thing. Humans have a nature and purpose. If we are to educate humans,…
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