2023 Plenary Talk | 1:02:07 | Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
It has become ever more obvious that we are not very good at deliberating. And no wonder: deliberation is hard. Hard things take practice. As a society, we have undercut the normal ways people practice deliberation, from the dinner table to classroom to the senate chamber. Yet Kern argues that deliberation, not technology, is what raises the civilized person above the barbarian. Furthermore, everything valuable in civilized life comes from deliberation. Therefore, everything we teach our children should either enable, support, or extend their ability to deliberate. Finally, so as not to leave you frustrated, he shows how to do it.
Speaker
Andrew Kern is the founder and president of the CiRCE Institute (Center for Independent Research on Classical Education), the husband of Karen, the father of five grown adults, and the grandfather of (so far) nine grandchildren. He has been researching, speaking, teaching, and consulting in the Christian classical renewal since 1993, during which he has been instrumental in the founding of three schools, consulted with over 100 schools and co-ops, and served as Director of Classical Instruction, Academic Dean, and Headmaster. Andrew speaks regularly at home school and classical conferences. In addition, he is the co-author with Dr. Gene Edward Veith of Classical Education, The Movement Sweeping America and, with Andrea Lipinski, of The CiRCE Guide to Reading. He also led the development of CiRCE’s classical rhetoric program, The Lost Tools of Writing, and he loves Homer, Shakespeare, Anne of Green Gables, and Endeavour. Like Shakespeare, he knows a little Latin and less Greek. Except a lot less than Shakespeare. Andrew and Karen have settled in Concord, North Carolina where they attend Christ The Good Shepherd Orthodox Mission and watch their five grown children raise their children and pursue their callings.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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