Ep. 59: What is a Classical Education?

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Young Heretics is the classical education you've been denied. But what is a classical education, anyway? In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan walks through the history of the three- and four-fold way (the "trivium" and the "quadrivium") to explain how we can shape our souls to love the good in a degraded age.

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0:00.0	So, everything is falling apart.
0:03.0	Where do we go from here?
0:09.0	That is the enormous question that I want to make
0:13.0	some steps toward tackling today.
0:16.0	I want to talk about rebuilding because I'm done
0:20.0	with all of these descriptions of how everything is going wrong.
0:24.0	We already know. Do you know what I mean?
0:26.0	We know that critical race theory is taking over the public school system.
0:31.0	We know that there were terrible riots on the streets in summer of 2020.
0:35.0	We know that the country is terribly, terribly torn apart,
0:38.0	and my view by mostly, by social, cultural Marxism.
0:44.0	And there are many eloquent and beautiful descriptions of how those things fell apart.
0:50.0	Why America took various wrong turns?
0:53.0	The West is under assault all of these things.
0:56.0	And I've mentioned this before, and I will continue to talk about it on the show.
0:59.0	But I don't really want to spend time talking about how things are falling apart.
1:04.0	I want to spend time talking about how we together,
1:07.0	the people who listen to this show, and the people broader,
1:11.0	more broadly out there, who love the West, how we are going to build back.
1:16.0	And so, I want to talk about that in one of the most fundamental areas
1:19.0	and the area that is closest to my heart into this show,
1:22.0	and the fact that I'm a part of education.
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