This podcast is produced by Beautiful Teaching, LLC. Our team provides immersion courses, seminar led book studies, and comprehensive support for parents & K-12 classical educators.

This episode was sponsored by Classic Learning Test (CLT), Beautiful Feet Books, and Eighth Day Books!

Conference attendees have a chance to win gift certificates from these sponsors as well as our other conference sponsors!

Join us for our First Conference!

Explore some of our Conference Sessions on this episode:
Discuss your conference topic and what can attendees expect to take away from your session?

• Karen Glass: The Children Ask for Bread
• Peach Smith: Teaching Science Classically for K-12
• Mark Signorelli: Before the Books & Story and Civics
• Aaron Mitchell: Teaching Euclid as a Way Beyond Gnostic Cartesian Mathematics
• Mariah Martinez: Introducing Two types of Classical Pedagogy: Mimetic and Socratic & Recitation: A Rhetorical Art for PreK-12
• Jonathan Fiore: The Things We Carry– Two Graduates of Classical Education Reflect on its Impact
• Adrienne Freas: Loving Many Things

Some Question We Discuss:

1. What does the term "Vital Ideas" mean and why is it the them for our first classical education conference?
2. Who has had the greatest influence on your philosophy of education and why?
3. "what makes being an educator in the classical tradition different than just being an educator per se?"
4. What do you think are the greatest difficulties for classical educators?

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Vital Ideas Conference Information -
https://www.beautifulteaching.com/conference

$20 off Discount Code:
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DETAILED PROGRAM GUIDE

Conference Recordings: All sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is greatly encouraged, but come and go as needed. The recording will be available 2 weeks after the conference. The recordings will be available for 9 months.

Sessions: We have 16 sessions and 12 Speakers! Our sessions are for parents, home educators, classroom teachers, and school leadership. Each breakout in the program is marked with the recommended audience to help you choose the right sessions for your needs. See the detailed program guide!

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Credits:

Sound Engineer: Andrew Helsel

Logo Art: Anastasiya CF

Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in B flat major, RV529 : Lana Trotovsek, violin Sreten Krstic, violin with Chamber Orchestra of Slovenian Philharmonic

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About The Guest
Bryan Smith has been in education for over thirty years, primarily in schools with a liberal arts or classical education philosophy. His own education at the University of Dallas was a solid classical liberal arts formation in great texts, classical Greek, and rhetorical practice.

Bryan has worked in private schools for most of his career, but for a decade he worked with Great Hearts Academies, a charter school network operating in Arizona and Texas. He began his employment at Great Hearts as the founding head of school for one of eleven Arizona campuses. During Great Hearts’ expansion into Texas, Bryan served as the founding headmaster for the first network school in the Dallas / Fort Worth Metro area.

Bryan’s most recent work as a consultant has allowed him to continue helping school staff with planning, solid pedagogical and administrative practices, classroom management and student culture.

You can find Bryan Smith on LinkedIn

Show Notes
Bryan Smith and Adrienne Freas of Beautiful Teaching, reflect on what is attractive about a Liberal Arts Education. They talk about the principles that define a classical school, and why the ethos of classical education imparts a hopeful view of humanity. A noble end unfolds from permanent and universal reflections. The principles that anchor classical schools are discussed in this significant podcast. All educators will appreciate the wisdom of how to place school on course either to develop or to improve.

Some Key Moments Include:

• What books are really necessary for a classical school to include on their lists?
• Why The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius ought to be in every classical highschool curriculum
• What the early Christians thought about education
• Classical education is rooted in common assumptions--these are elaborated

Resources Mentioned
The Consolation of Philosphy - Boethius

The Discarded Image - C.S. Lewis

Essay “Schooling in Byzantium” by Bryan Smith (this will be a chapter in a new book coming out by St. Vladimir's press with essays compiled by David Hicks. More info coming soon)

St. Basil on Prepositions: The Human Condition

The Iliad &The Odyssey - Homer

The Psalter
Atigone

Books 1 and 2 of Samuel

On the Incarnation by Saint Athanasius the Great of Alexandria with an introduction by C.S. Lewis

Plato
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

Frog and Toad series - Arnold Lobel
"The Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's Republic

Paradise Lost- John Milton

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poetry by Virgil

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This podcast is produced by Beautiful Teaching, LLC.
Support this podcast: ★ Support this podcast ★

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Credits:

Sound Engineer: Andrew Helsel

Logo Art: Anastasiya CF

Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for 2 Violins in B flat major, RV529 : Lana Trotovsek, violin Sreten Krstic, violin with Chamber Orchestra of Slovenian Philharmonic

© 2024 Beautiful Teaching LLC. All Rights Reserved