188: Four reasons why classical education can't happen

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss David Hicks's (yep, THAT David Hicks, the one who wrote "Norms and Nobility") article "Is Classical Education Still Possible?" If we agree with him, it could mean that two of us are out of a job, and three of us are out of a podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about classical world, classical literature, old things, old stuff, brought to you by young guys.
0:21.4	Not old? Are we that young?
0:22.5	Well, we're getting there.
0:23.3	Okay.
0:24.4	But we-
0:25.4	What's the cutoff for old?
0:26.2	Just curious.
0:27.2	Yeah, that's a great question.
0:27.3	Where's middle age?
0:28.2	I feel like I'm middle-aged.
0:29.1	Is it 35?
0:30.1	You don't know.
0:31.2	Isn't 40 middle-aged?
0:31.9	No, you can only know after you're dead,
0:33.4	because you can divide by half. So there's some middle-aged seven-year-olds, that's what you're saying.
0:37.8	Exactly.
0:38.4	That's a hard thing.
0:40.2	Oh, man.
0:41.0	Man, this really went dark place really early, didn't it?
0:42.8	You should fire me.
0:44.0	I'm not.
0:44.4	I shouldn't be in this.
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