SS #123: Honor Thy Philosophical Fathers (Brent Pinkall on Chinese Classical Education)

Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas

Brandy Vencel

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education

4.7 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Our guest today is Brent Pinkall, author of the fabulous new book, Redeeming the Six Arts: A Christian Approach to Chinese Classical Education, which the Sisters cannot recommend enough. Brent Pinkall is a Lecturer of Rhetoric at New Saint Andrews College. Before joining the NSA faculty, Pinkall taught rhetoric at a classical Christian college in China for more than five years. He has also taught at various public universities in China, including Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, and Central China Normal University. In addition to rhetoric, Pinkall has taught college-level courses in logic, epistemology, history of classical education, classical pedagogy, astronomy, English, and English literature. He has ministered in China for more than twelve years, with a focus on promoting classical Christian education there.

***

Are you ready for this year's spring training? It's going to be amazing!! We're calling it Dead White Guys because the latest attack on classical education seems to be the claim that classical education should be discarded because much of the source material was written by white men. Scholé Sisters has hired Monique Duson and Krista Bontrager from The Center for Biblical Unity to fit all of us for conversing on these issues. Session 1 is all about Critical Theory and Session 2 is basically a defense of classical education against the attacks of Critical Theory proponents. Each session ends with a live Q&A! It's going to be so great! Go to https://www.scholesisters.info/crt/ to register!

***

Click here to access today's show notes.

Click here to join the Sistership.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Why study these pagan authors? At the root of this, this is all common grace. We do this because we
0:07.2	believe that God bestowed grace even on those who didn't know him in a saving way. Of course,
0:15.5	the New Testament bears witness to all of this. You know, Romans 1, there was a few passages in Acts,
0:23.2	where even those who have no special but revelation, they've not, you know, heard the word of God. They still know God. Romans 1,
0:29.0	the condemnation isn't, they didn't know God. It's that they knew him, but they didn't
0:33.2	worship him and honor him as God.
0:42.8	Yeah. worship him and honor him as God. Welcome to Skalae Sisters, the podcast for classical homeschooling Mamas, who yearn for
0:48.5	something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done.
0:52.4	Scalae Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating
0:56.8	ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully, equips us for the
1:02.2	task of educating our children.
1:04.7	I'm your host, Brandy Vensel.
1:07.2	You can come study Charlotte Mason with me over in the Charlotte Mason think tank.
1:11.9	Go to afterthoughts blog.net slash think tank to learn more.
1:17.9	My co-hosts today is Misty Winkler.
1:21.5	Misty is a homeschooling mom of five, including two graduates.
1:25.2	She writes and podcasts at simplyconvial.com and is the author of
1:29.4	the Convivial Home School, now available on Amazon. Our guest today is Brent Pinkall,
1:37.1	author of the fabulous new book, Redeeming the Six Arts, a Christian approach to Chinese
1:41.8	classical education, which I cannot recommend enough.
1:46.2	Brent Pinkal is a lecturer of rhetoric at New St. Andrews College. Before joining the faculty at New
1:52.1	St. Andrews, Pinkal taught rhetoric at a classical Christian college in China for more than five years.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brandy Vencel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brandy Vencel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.