Synopsis
The CiRCE Institute Podcast Network is made up four regular shows: FORMA, featuring interviews and conversations with educators, writers, and thinkers.The Mason Jar featuring Cindy Rollins, all Charlotte Mason all the time. Close Reads, a book club podcast, featuring Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.Ask Andrew, in which Andrew Kern answers listener questions about Christian classical education.As well as various seasonal shows like The Commons with Brian Phillips, The Divided Line with Matt Bianco, and A Perpetual Feast with Andrew Kern and Wes Callihan.
Episodes
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Proverbial #43: No Easy Way Out
24/11/2020 Duration: 29minThis week's proverb, which is unattributed, is: "No good deed goes unpunished." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew: Thoughts on the Relationship between the Arts, Sciences, and Reason
03/11/2020 Duration: 01h08sJoin Andrew Kern for another recording of his Ask Andrew webinar series. In this episode he contemplates the relationship between the arts, sciences, and reason -- and much more, as usual. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial #41: The Long Farewell
12/10/2020 Duration: 28minThis week's proverb is from Jonathan Swift: "life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew #64: Furthers Thoughts on the Definition of Rhetoric
08/10/2020 Duration: 57minIn this episode, Andrew Kern continues to explain how he defines rhetoric and how he came to that definition, as well as why he prioritizes decision-making over persuasion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial #40: Silence is Golden
30/09/2020 Duration: 24minThis week's proverb, which is unattributed, is "let sleeping dogs lie." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial #39: Heaven Can Wait
23/09/2020 Duration: 21minThis week's proverb is unattributed: "Youth is wasted on the young." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial #38: Made in Italy
15/09/2020 Duration: 27minThis week's proverb is unattributed: "the clothes make the man." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew 62: How to adapt to the needs of individual students
11/09/2020 Duration: 47minIn this week's episode, Andrew Kern contemplates ways of adapting to the various needs of individual students, while also avoiding decision fatigue. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial #37: The Best Part of the Trip
08/09/2020 Duration: 31minThis week's proverb comes from Dante, that great Italian writer, who wrote, "if the will won't will, nothing can force it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew #61: How do I adapt a classical education to the modern system?
27/08/2020 Duration: 52minIn this episode of the Ask Andrew podcast, Andrew Kern contemplates ways of adapting a truly classical education to the modern educational system in which we are required to participate. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial 36: Like a Wolf
26/08/2020 Duration: 23minThis week's proverb is unattributed: "hunger is the best sauce." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Proverbial 35: A Full Life
18/08/2020 Duration: 33minIn this week's episode Joshua Gibbs contemplates Solomon's famous "there is a time" proverb from Scripture. Join him as he contemplates what this passage has to say for modern men and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew 60: How do I teach history classically?
12/08/2020 Duration: 47minIn this week's episode of Ask Andrew, Andrew Kern contemplates the best modes of teaching history. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew 59: How God Taught Adam
05/08/2020 Duration: 47minOriginally recorded as a Good Friday webinar, this episode of Ask Andrew contemplates the way God taught Adam in the garden and what we can learn from it as parents and educators. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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FORMA: Talking about the new "30 Poems to Memorize" book
03/08/2020 Duration: 46minIn this episode David Kern joins Heidi White to discuss a new CiRCE publication, 30 Poems to Memorize (Before Its Too Late), which David edited. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew 58: How should I respond to my reluctant learner?
28/07/2020 Duration: 31minIn this week's episode, Andrew Kern contemplates two questions about students who don't generally like school: a) Should I force my reluctant reader to read? and b) How do you entice a child to learn who doesn't seem to want to? If you like this episode, please be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew #57: The Fundamental Literary Skills (and more)
21/07/2020 Duration: 29minIn this episode, Andrew Kern contemplates some of the most essential, fundamental literary skills (with a literary help from the book of Proverbs). Then he takes some rapid-fire questions, including one about this issues with "subjects." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Cafe Schole #10: Study as Prayer and Love for God
21/07/2020 Duration: 31minIn this episode, Dr. Perrin discusses an essay by Simone Weil that reveals the relationship between attentive study and prayer that should lead us to love both God and neighbor. Can study be rightfully understood as prayer or leading to prayer?If you like this episode please be sure to subscribe to the Cafe Schole feed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ask Andrew #56: How should we use the "should question?"
14/07/2020 Duration: 39minIn this episode of Ask Andrew, Andrew Kern explains how he thinks about matters of pedagogy, answer this week's primary question (How should we use "the should question"?), and then hits some rapid-fire questions at the end. If you like this episode please be sure to subscribe to the feed for this show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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FORMA: Dale Grote + Wes Callihan on Latin and the book of Acts
10/07/2020 Duration: 56minDale Grote is the author of a new Latin reader of the Acts of the Apostles which includes a foreword by historian and teacher Wes Callihan and in this episode they join Heidi White for a conversation about the process of translation, the relationship between Latin and the New Testament, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.