Workshop Talk | | Teacher & Classroom, Theology & Bible
Summary
The disciple whom Jesus loved famously taught that Christ was the Logos of God and that, “In Him was life and the life was the light of men.” There is only one Logos of God—Christ, the Uncreated Logos. And yet in a sense, everything is a “logos” of God—a created logos. In yet another sense, everything we humans make is an imitation of the logoi (plural for logos) of God—mimetic logoi. Education is teaching and learning how to know the Uncreated Logos, the created logoi, and the mimetic logoi, each as it can be known. Drawing on T.S. Eliot’s poem, Choruses From “the Rock”, Kern shows why it helps to think of things as logoi, how doing so makes us better teachers, and how we can teach, learn, and lead better when we are Logos-centered.
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.
akern@circeinstitute.org
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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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