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Classical Stuff You Should Know

45: Why English Teachers Aren't Liars

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The most common criticism of English courses is that some of the things we teach sound made up. How do you know what is symbolic in a book and what isn't?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast put on by three educators at Classical School in Austin, Texas, Veritas Academy.

0:15.5

Following in the vein of unhelpful titles, we have Graham Donaldson today speaking. Hey. And I could try and pretend to know

0:23.8

what he's talking about, but I have no idea. But before we get to that, Graham already said, hey,

0:28.3

we also have here, AJ Hannanburg. That's this guy. And me, Thomas Magby. But yeah,

0:33.3

Graham is going to be leading this episode today. So that's right. Thomas's right. Thomas, you got your summer beard going.

0:39.5

I do have a summer beard going right now.

0:41.1

This is only the second time I've grown out my facial hair and I'm okay with it.

0:44.2

Really?

0:44.8

Did you do it like in junior high or something?

0:46.8

No.

0:47.4

Were you an early bearder?

0:48.6

No.

0:49.3

It was a couple years ago.

0:51.5

So it was after college even.

0:54.5

Yeah.

0:55.7

You weren't adventurous in college?

0:57.2

I had dreadlocks for a good chunk of it.

0:59.1

Clean shaven.

0:59.7

Yeah, all the time, clean shaven.

1:01.7

And then I was, what's that?

1:03.2

I had glasses in college.

1:04.9

Your eyes got better?

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