145: Pursuing a Classical Education ft. Jeremy Tate
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
OK, time to admit my stress + beef with the modern day education system.
I went to public school. Did not have a great experience. Krzys went to public school. Did have a great experience. I don’t want to pay thousands for my kids to go to school in a community that looks exactly like them and be encased in a Catholic Bubble, nor do I want them to go to the school where I went, spending most of pre-calc hanging out in the parking lot and taking civics classes where there are actual test questions like “Why is there no right or wrong in today’s society?” Y’feel me?
Sometimes I struggle with what I even believe education is for. That’s why I was so excited to learn about Jeremy Tate and the Classical Learning Test, an alternative to the SAT and ACT. Jeremy is on the show today to talk about the purpose of education, the main problem with our modern day school systems, and why he believes a classical education is essential. The conversation blew my mind and got me thinking about school and education in an entirely different light—I hope it does the same for you!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 145. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're talking about pursuing a classical education and what the purpose of education really is. |
| 0:12.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by every sacred |
| 0:14.8 | Sunday. It's not too late to grab one of their 20-20 mass journals at every |
| 0:19.4 | sacred Sunday.com. Today's episode is also brought to you by Audible. For a free |
| 0:24.7 | audio book and free 30-day trial head to Audible Trial.com |
| 0:28.3 | slash Catholic. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to the Catholic 7ist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, |
| 0:36.5 | inspired, and intentional. I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. What if I started this show? |
| 0:44.0 | What if I started this show, Hey, All You Cool Cats and Kittens? |
| 0:57.0 | Would anyone get that reference? |
| 0:59.0 | Don't worry, I'm not going to. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, happy Wednesday. I hope that you are thriving in the midst of this |
| 1:05.8 | quarantine season and that spring has been treating you well. I am excited for |
| 1:11.0 | today's episode because we are talking about a topic that's been really near and dear on my heart lately |
| 1:16.9 | and that is education and our modern day school system. |
| 1:20.9 | We're talking a lot about the American school system specifically. So if you're |
| 1:25.8 | listening in from Finland or South Africa, you may have a radically different experience, |
| 1:31.0 | but today our guest is here to talk about standardized testing |
| 1:34.9 | and classic education. Now what does this have to do with Catholic feminism? Here's |
| 1:40.4 | what? So many of us, first of all, are mothers and we're struggling over the decisions of how to educate our kids, how to help them really learn about the world, which is such an important job, and where to send them or not send them to help them get that education. |
| 1:56.2 | The other reason is as feminists we should care about our global world and a huge part of our world is education right if we want to solve |
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