2019 Workshop Talk | 01:04:11 | All Grade Levels, Culture & Faith
Summary
We hear often about the startling change in thought that occurred up to and including the Enlightenment . However, we aren’t often shown what exactly that change was, and that makes us potentially vulnerable to false and simplistic narratives and cultural mythologies that tell us our permitted place in the world. Then what did happen? And how does it affect the way we think and teach today? What do we need to recover if we want to restore the treasures of classical and Christian education? In this workshop, you will learn that the shift was in fact rather simple: thinkers turned away from the search for meaning and replaced it with a quest for power. In the curriculum, this meant that the foundation of knowledge was no longer regarded as grammar but instead was an isolated, idiosyncratic, and exclusive geometry. We live and teach downstream from this cosmic redirection of thought, so we need to think carefully and faithfully about how it has affected us—and about how to forge our way back to the wrong turn (hint: it might not be as far away as it feels). Come and learn how to “re-orb the stars.”
Speaker
Andrew Kern is founder and president of the CiRCE Institute, a co-author of The Lost Tools of Writing and of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America, which he wrote with Dr. Gene Edward Veith. Since establishing CiRCE in 1996 to serve classical educators through research and consulting, Andrew has trained and apprenticed innumerable home and school teachers, heads of school, and school boards. Andrew helped start Providence Academy in Green Bay, WI, in 1993; Foundations Academy (now Ambrose School) in Boise, ID, in 1996; The Great Ideas Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2001; and Regents School of the Carolinas in 2006. He and his wife live in North Carolina, and their five more-or-less classically educated and more-or-less homeschooled children and ever more grandchildren live in various places depending on when you ask.
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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