Interview: Joshua Herring, Archon of the Milesian Renaissance
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A revival in classical education is sweeping the nation. But where are we going to get good classical educators? In this interview, Josh Herring of Thales College discusses how he and his colleagues are equipping teachers to rise to that noble calling. From the humanities to the natural sciences, we need leaders who can do more than just pass on information. Josh and Spencer discusses who will shape the souls of the soul-shapers themselves, and how.
Check out Thales College's degree in Classical education: https://www.thalescollege.org/academics/classical-education
Listen to the Optimistic Curmudgeon podcast: https://optimisticcurmudgeon2021.podbean.com/
Read Josh's writing: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/author/josh-herring
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Day, |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back to Young Heritage Conversations. |
| 0:08.0 | This is our interview series to supplement and |
| 0:13.9 | compliment the other stuff that we do on Tuesdays where I talk with you a little bit about the |
| 0:15.3 | canon and great works of the West and the tradition of Athens and Jerusalem. |
| 0:20.1 | These interviews are a chance for me to learn a little bit about what's going on out there in the world |
| 0:26.5 | because I am but one man we I cannot save the West alone not even all of us listening can save the West alone. It is going to be as always been a secret society a community endeavor and I like to hear from different people in different walks of life when we do these interviews. |
| 0:42.0 | This week I'm very excited to bring a friend of mine on. |
| 0:46.2 | He's also a podcaster in his own right and an excellent writer, but Josh Herring is somebody that I first met when I wrote my book, |
| 0:54.0 | How to Save the West, Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crisis, |
| 0:56.6 | and he invited me on his show to talk about it, |
| 0:59.0 | was very interested in the material, |
| 1:00.7 | and now he is leading the humanities department at Thales College. |
| 1:07.0 | Let me talk a little bit about that now. |
| 1:08.0 | We'll obviously discuss it with him, but you might know if you're a listener to this show that the classical schools movement is a real phenomenon at this point. |
| 1:17.5 | I am not the only person who has noticed that people out there in America and the West more generally have been deprived of what used to be called a classical education or even just education and people feel they're hungry for something of substance some connection to the tradition of the past some way of feeling like they're not ashamed of themselves or their ancestors and some entry into this great conversation that has been going on |
| 1:46.2 | from generation to generation across the world. |
| 1:49.2 | People want in and that's something that I have been delighted to provide. |
| 1:54.0 | That's been my joy is to kind of invite you into that conversation |
| 1:58.0 | from wherever you are out in the regular world. |
| 2:00.0 | You know, we like Machiavelli, we sort of take off our regular work day clothes and put on the |
| 2:05.3 | robes of the ancients to speak with them and you know that's obviously been a great joy of my career but as I said I'm not the only person that knows that this is a need |
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