2018 Plenary Talk | 58:03 | All Grade Levels, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
The contemporary crisis in education is a crisis of soul. The moral and spiritual purposes of learning have been eclipsed by a shallow view of information delivery and success. This presentation turns to the father of classical Christian education, St. Augustine, to explore how he saved liberal arts education at the end of the Roman Empire and how his inspiring vision can do the same today. It offers a roadmap for an Augustinian liberal arts curriculum that promotes properly ordered love and provides concrete advice on how to implement it in the classroom.
Speaker
Dr. Joseph Clair serves as director of the William Penn Honors Program and as an assistant professor of religious studies. Before joining the George Fox faculty in 2013, he earned his PhD in the religion, ethics, and politics program at Princeton University while also working as an assistant in instruction. Prior to Princeton, Clair earned an MPhil at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He also holds master’s degrees from Fordham and Duke University as well as a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College. His research and teaching interests include Christian thought and ethics and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine (Oxford UP, 2016) and Reading Augustine: On Education, Salvation, Happiness, and the Gift of Reading (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Additional Materials
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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