Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

I'm Graham Donaldson, and I'm joined today by A.J. Hanenberg.

And Catherine Ball.

Here.

A new addition to the podcast.

Catherine, in the tradition of the classical stuff, you should know, podcast, can you tell

me, tell the listeners a little bit what did it, who you are and what you teach at, Veritas

and who you, and your, what was it, what are the words you use?

Credentials.

Credentials.

Credentials.

Your street cred.

Your classical cred.

Your classical cred. Your classical cred. Your classical cred. Oh, okay. Well, I was not

warned of any of this in advance, so I'm going to have to try to do this on the fly. Well,

as was said just now, my name is Catherine Ball. I teach 11th grade American literature. I co-teach

12th grade literature with these fine gentlemen here and a few other things.

My previous experience with classical education before coming to Veritas was being classically educated in grammar school.

And so classical education has been something near and dear to my heart for a very long time.

But enough about me, I am very anxious to hear what Graham has to share with this.

That's right.

A.J. and I are the great unwashed, whereas Catherine is the one that who has been trained

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