Classical Education is a podcast perfect for learning about the tradition of a liberal arts education. We invite you to join us on a journey in pursuit of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful as we participate in the great conversation and listen to the many voices coming from the world of classical education.
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Sep 28, 2026 · 59:54
ABOUT THE GUEST Brandy Vencel has been married to her husband, Josiah, for 25 years, and they have four children, an amazing daughter-in-law, and a sweet little grandson. Brandy…
May 21, 2026 · 1:10:08
About the Guest Joshua Herring is the Curriculum Program Manager for the Rafiki Foundation, Director of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies , and author of Sons of…
May 7, 2026 · 56:09
About the Guest Autumn Kern is the host of The Commonplace , a place to help new homeschooling moms get their bearings in the classical, Charlotte Mason world. She explores the…
Apr 23, 2026 · 42:50
About the Guest Mandi Gerth is a teacher and classical education consultant who lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and three of their five children. She currently serves as…
Feb 12, 2026 · 1:01:38
About the Guest Dr. Keith Buhler is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and teacher. He co-founded the Saint Andrew Academy in Riverside CA, where he serves at Director of Advancement.…
Jan 29, 2026 · 1:10:21
About the Guests MELODY FOWLER: Roots Farm Education Founder, Director, Form III Instructor Ages 10-12 Melody is a happy wife of 28 years, a proud mother of three and now an…
Oct 23, 2025 · 48:22
About the Guest Charlene Thompson is a first grade teacher in her fourth year at Founders Classical Academy in Rogers, Arkansas. She holds a bachelor's degree in Elementary…
Aug 15, 2025 · 41:42
About the Guest Dr. John Ahern holds a PhD from Princeton University in historical musicology. He currently teaches at The Wilberforce School as an Upper School Humanities and…
May 29, 2025 · 48:44
Dr. Erik Ellis is Assistant Professor of Classical Education at the University of Dallas. After graduating from the University Scholars Program at Baylor University with…
May 8, 2025 · 1:10:56
About the Guest: Dr. Fred Putnam Fred Putnam retired after forty years of teaching high school, college, and graduate school; for twelve of those years he was Professor of Bible…
Mar 20, 2025 · 1:03:12
About the Guest Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian liturgical artist, icon carver, writer, and public speaker. With a YouTube following of 191K, he has become a sought out…
Feb 27, 2025 · 1:04:36
About the Guest Kolby Atchison serves as the head of school at Clapham School, a classical Christian school in Wheaton, Illinois, that implements the educational philosophy of…
Feb 6, 2025 · 49:44
About The Guests Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline . She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason’s methods from…
Jan 16, 2025 · 1:16:53
Guests Dr. Louis Markos: Houston Christian University : Professor of English Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Patrick Egan: Clapham Christian Classical…
Jan 11, 2025 · 1:27:29
Guests Dr. Matthew Post: Founder and Former Director of the Classical Education Graduate program at The University of Dallas; Served with The National Classical Education…
Dec 12, 2024 · 54:07
About our Guest Kiernan Fiore has worked as a teacher, administrator, trainer, and curriculum developer since 2011. Kiernan was classically home educated using a Charlotte Mason…
Oct 17, 2024 · 34:04
About our Guest Chris earned a BA in Philosophy from Gettysburg College and an MAT in Elementary Education from Towson University. He has been a classroom educator and…
Sep 6, 2024 · 1:05:10
About our Guest Andrew J. Zwerneman serves as Cana Academy’s President and as one of their MasterTeachers. For 40 years, he has taught and consulted in secondary schools that…
Aug 8, 2024 · 48:36
About The Guest Anna-Marie Carter is an enthusiastic classical education convert. After years of disillusionment under the philosophy of progressive education, she had about…
Jun 26, 2024 · 54:46
About The Guest Mariah Martinez has worked in education since 2015 as a teacher, curriculum developer, and mentor teacher. Mariah attended the Honors College at Houston Baptist…
Jun 13, 2024 · 1:06:36
About The Guest David V. Hicks retired in 2015 as Chief Academic Officer for Meritas LLC, a company based in Chicago that owned and operated K-12 college preparatory schools…
May 27, 2024 · 1:26:20
This podcast is produced by Beautiful Teaching, LLC. Our team provides immersion courses, seminar led book studies, and comprehensive support for parents & K-12 classical…
May 2, 2024 · 1:05:01
About The Guest Bryan Smith has been in education for over thirty years, primarily in schools with a liberal arts or classical education philosophy. His own education at the…
Apr 18, 2024 · 58:44
About The Guests ACCESS LITERACY TEAM Dorothy Kardatzke I live with my husband in Columbus, Ohio. I taught for more than 25 years in both general education classrooms and in…
Apr 5, 2024 · 1:11:17
Guests Rhonda Bedee is an instructor endorsed by SWR author Wanda Sanseri for Spell to Write and Read seminars. My specialty is finding solutions for individual spelling needs…
Mar 21, 2024 · 1:17:33
Guests Michael Fitzgerald (Principal) Michael is an experienced educator with an M.S. in Brain-Based Education. After a decade teaching in a variety of school models, he is using…
Mar 7, 2024 · 44:24
SPONSOR Eighth Day Books is sponsoring our upcoming online conference AND this podcast episode. They are offering FREE standard shipping between March 8 and March 31, 2024 for…
Feb 22, 2024 · 37:56
About the Guest Benjamin Lyda has been head of a classical charter high school and founder of a Charlotte Mason inspired K-12 school. His more than 20 years of teaching…
Feb 8, 2024 · 1:09:52
About the Guests Kathleen Cotter Clayton is the daughter of Dr. Joan A. Cotter, author and developer of the RightStart™ Mathematics program. Kathleen is involved with curriculum…
Jan 25, 2024 · 1:06:27
About the Guest Junius Johnson is a writer, teacher, speaker, independent scholar, and musician. His work focuses on beauty, imagination, and wonder, and how these are at play in…
Jan 4, 2024 · 58:57
About the Guest Alex Markos is part of the Humanities faculty at the Geneva School of Boerne, TX , where he currently teaches 9th grade Greek and Roman history and literature.…
Dec 21, 2023 · 58:41
About The Guest Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. His teaching and research focus on the…
Nov 16, 2023 · 50:44
About The Guest Jake Weidmann is a professional artist and certified as one of nine Master Penman in the world. Certified through IAMPETH (International Association of Master…
Nov 3, 2023 · 41:51
About the Guest Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is a reader, writer, and professor. She is the author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a…
Oct 19, 2023 · 41:46
About the Guest Jon has worked at Coram Deo Academy since 2010. Before serving as Dallas Campus Headmaster, he served as Dean of Students at the Flower Mound campus. He has…
Oct 5, 2023 · 44:00
About the Guest Dr. Brian A. Williams is Dean of the Templeton Honors College , Associate Professor of Ethics & Liberal Studies, and Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities.…
Sep 14, 2023 · 1:11:44
About the Guest John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Jack is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people…
Aug 31, 2023 · 21:24
About Our Guests 11-year-old Grace has loved poetry for as long as she can remember. When she's not climbing a tree, you can find her reading books or writing her own. She also…
Aug 10, 2023 · 1:14:53
About our Guests Dr. Dave Rose is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1987 from the University of Virginia.…
Jul 27, 2023 · 1:02:15
This episode originally aired in Season 1, episode 4. We have many new listeners now. We think this episode is worth a republish! Enjoy the show! Four teachers join us to talk…
Jul 13, 2023 · 57:11
About our Guest Andrew J. Zwerneman has been working in the classical education movement since 1983. In 2016 he co-founded Cana Academy where he serves as president. He blogs…
Jun 29, 2023 · 48:50
About our Guest Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian liturgical artist, icon carver, writer, and public speaker. With a YouTube following of 191K, he has become a sought out…
Jun 22, 2023 · 1:01:14
About our Guest Dr. Christopher Perrin, is an author, consultant, and speaker, who specializes in classical education and is committed to the national renewal of the liberal arts…
Jun 8, 2023 · 1:03:14
About our Guest Joshua Gibbs is a teacher, a lecturer on pedagogy and great books, and the author of several books that are listed in the show notes. For the last thirteen years,…
May 25, 2023 · 1:07:55
About The Guest Mark Signorelli currently serves as Headmaster at Lumen Gentium Academy, a classical Catholic high school located in Boonton, NJ. Prior to occupying this…
May 4, 2023 · 51:41
About The Guests Matthew Post, PhD, Acting Director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture and Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University…
Apr 13, 2023 · 59:53
About our Guests The Ancient Language Institute exists to transform the way ancient languages are taught and to recover the humanistic tradition for the modern world. Jonathan…
Apr 1, 2023 · 1:14:00
About the Guest Dr. Daniel Gabelman grew up in the arid foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains but now finds himself in a contrapuntal landscape--the flat, marshy fenlands of…
Mar 30, 2023 · 50:23
About the Guest Patrick Egan is a founding director of Educational Renaissance and Academic Dean at Clapham School . He previously served as an administrator at Providence…
Mar 16, 2023 · 42:16
About our Guest Kon Bouzikos is currently the President and cofounder of ACES (Australian Classical Education Society). The Australian Classical Education Society Inc. is an…
Mar 2, 2023 · 59:12
About the Guests Four Teachers from Coram Deo Academy (CDA): A Christian, classical, and collaborative university model network with three campuses in the DFW Metroplex. Yvette…
Feb 16, 2023 · 1:01:05
About the Author Until his retirement in 2015, Vigen Guroian was Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a Permanent…
Feb 2, 2023 · 1:00:53
About our Guest: Dr. Forman is active in his community having served on the Roseville Joint Union High School District Governing Board from 2000 to 2004. He was the chair of the…
Jan 21, 2023 · 45:36
About our Guests Randan Steinhauser with Sweetwater Scholé in greater Austin: Randan Steinhauser is a mother of four who recently launched a Charlotte Mason-inspired homeschool…
Jan 5, 2023 · 1:29:30
About our Guests Dr. Matthew Post : University of Dallas, Director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture; Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr.…
Dec 15, 2022 · 1:27:28
About Our Guests Richard W. Rohlin is an Orthodox Christian, author, podcaster, medievalist, and data analyst living in Grand Prairie, TX. A husband and father, he is the co-host…
Dec 8, 2022 · 53:26
About Our Guest Jarrid Looney was born and raise in southwestern Virginia until 2004. He then attended Berea College, from whence he graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s in…
Dec 1, 2022 · 1:10:40
About Our Guest Diana Cunningham is the founding headmistress of Lindisfarne Hall, a classical Anglican school in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Learn more about the good work going…
Nov 24, 2022 · 51:30
About our Guest Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline . She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason’s methods from…
Nov 17, 2022 · 1:12:49
About Our Guest "Autumn Kern is a wife, mother, and keeper of an actual commonplace book. When she was twenty-one, she sat under a tree with a man who told her the woman he…
Nov 10, 2022 · 57:58
About Our Guest Margarita Mooney Suarez (Clayton)* is an Associate Professor in the Department of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She founded The Scala…
Oct 31, 2022 · 1:08:36
About our Guests Dax Stokes is the host of the award-winning podcast "The Vampire Historian," and a frequent lecturer on the topics of Dracula and vampire folklore. As an…
Oct 27, 2022 · 1:11:55
About Our Guest Ferdi McDermott studied Languages at Edinburgh University before a decade in Catholic publishing in London. In 2002 he founded Chavagnes International College, an…
Oct 20, 2022 · 57:55
About our Guest: Dr. Matthew Post Assistant Professor of Humanities and Associate Director, Saint Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture at the University of…
Oct 13, 2022 · 46:23
About Our Guest Daniel Olushola is the founder and former headmaster of Reformation Wall School. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Covenant…
Oct 6, 2022 · 56:56
About our Guest: Dr. Angel Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Her area…
Sep 29, 2022 · 1:43:09
About our Guest: Dr. Richard Ferrier was born April 18th 1948, Berkeley California, married wife Kathyrn 1972, 8 children, 9 grandchildren. He is currently a faculty member with…
Sep 15, 2022 · 49:37
About our Guest: Steve Mittwede, PhD, EdS Dr. Mittwede is privileged to be a teacher of Earth Science at Randolph School in Huntsville (Rocket City!), Alabama, after having…
Sep 8, 2022 · 1:02:51
About our Guests Kevin Moore is an experienced educator of young learners as well as a respected instructional leader. Presently, Kevin's attention and energies are consumed by…
Sep 1, 2022 · 47:16
About our Guest Amy Sloan and her husband John are 2nd-generation homeschoolers to 5 children from 7 to 17 years old. The Sloan family adventures together in NC where they pursue…
Aug 25, 2022 · 52:30
Guest Biographies Dr. Laura Eidt received her BA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and her MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature…
Aug 18, 2022 · 55:56
Guest Biographies Dr. Laura Eidt received her BA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and her MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature…
Jul 21, 2022 · 53:23
About Our Guest Mariah Martinez has worked in education since 2015 as a teacher, curriculum developer, and mentor teacher. Mariah was introduced to a progressive version of…
Jul 14, 2022 · 1:04:16
About Our Guest Kiernan Fiore has worked as a teacher, administrator, teacher trainer, and curriculum developer since 2011. After receiving a Charlotte Mason classical home…
Jul 7, 2022 · 1:02:48
About Our Guest Jason Caros serves as the headmaster at Founders Classical Academy. He graduated from Florida State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts with concentrations in…
Jun 30, 2022 · 1:02:36
About our Guest Mr. Barney serves as the Principal of Coram Deo Academy in Carmel, IN. In 2012 he was awarded the Henry Salvatori Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Hillsdale…
Jun 23, 2022 · 1:08:18
About our Guest Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline . She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason’s methods from…
Jun 16, 2022 · 1:14:40
About our Guests Dr. Dave Rose is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1987 from the University of Virginia.…
Jun 9, 2022 · 1:14:23
About our Guest Sean Johnson holds an M.A. in English from the University of Dallas, and he teaches Great Books at Veritas School in Richmond, Virginia. Sean has reviewed movies…
Jun 2, 2022 · 53:09
About our Guest Dr. Reno Lauro received his PhD from the University of St. Andrews Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in 2011, where he wrote on J. R. R. Tolkien’s…
May 19, 2022 · 56:31
About our Guest Steven J. Bourgeois, PhD has been a practicing teacher for the past 32 years. Working primarily in Oregon and Texas, he has taught high school German, string…
May 12, 2022 · 59:19
About our Guest Soren Schwab, M.Ed is a passionate educator with a decade of experience in K-12 education. Born and raised in Germany, Soren moved to the US in the late 2000’s to…
May 5, 2022 · 58:17
About our Guest Gary Hartenburg holds a BA in Bible and theology from Moody Bible Institute, an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics from Biola University, and a PhD in…
Apr 28, 2022 · 1:01:11
About our Guest John W. Heitzenrater II has nearly 17 years teaching and administrative experience in classical schools. Mr. Heitzenrater began his career teaching history and…
Apr 21, 2022 · 1:25:56
About our Guest For more than 20 years, Carol was Associate Professor of Music History at the Meadows School of the Arts , Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.…
Apr 14, 2022 · 53:28
Guest Biographies Dr. Laura Eidt received her BA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from…
Apr 7, 2022 · 52:06
About our Guest Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas. She is the author of numerous books, including The Scandal of…
Mar 31, 2022 · 1:03:29
About our Guest Joshua Gibbs is a teacher, a lecturer on pedagogy and great books, and the author of several books that are listed in the show notes. For the last twelve years,…
Mar 23, 2022 · 46:51
Show Notes Something delightful is happening! Ben and Eden Lyda show the way to capture the heart of stories through Shakespeare plays. Ben, founder of Children’s Shakespeare…
Mar 16, 2022 · 58:47
What are the common arts? How do they relate to a classical education? How do we bring up the whole human being, thriving in wonders of life and right ordered relationships? Join…
Mar 16, 2022 · 1:01:17
Four teachers join us to talk about their joyful experiences teaching Plutarch in both classrooms and homeschools. This episode highlights different perspectives and personal…
Mar 13, 2022 · 1:09:49
While wrestling with the great books and great ideas, this discussion enters the realm of educating with virtues. Podcast guest, Dr. Louis Markos discusses the true, the good,…
Mar 11, 2022 · 37:19
Meet Trae and Adrienne and hear them discuss the goals for the podcast. The focus on the Great Conversation encompasses the art of teaching and learning. They give an overview of…
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