2021 Plenary Talk | 15:21 | Academics & Curriculum, Culture & Faith, Literature, Philosophy, Virtue, Character, Discipline
Summary
Between 1941 and 1943, C.S. Lewis delivered a series of presentations in which he proposed two possible ends for humanity. In one, he argued that “nearly all men in all nations are at present laboring to produce” what he called “the world of post-humanity.” In the other, he insisted that God intends to satisfy the deep human desire “for a far off country” where he will carry a weight of glory. In this talk, Kern explores how modern man is using education to abolish man while the Christian classical renewal must—and can—help each other to the glory of the far off country.
Speaker
At the moment of writing, Andrew Kern has seven grandchildren. More trivially, having founded the CiRCE Institute after coauthoring Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America (with Dr. Gene Edward Veith), he has been compelled to serve as its president. Andrew also bears primary culpability for The Lost Tools of Writing, a classical rhetoric and writing resource. Since establishing CiRCE to serve classical educators through research and consulting while developing and providing integrated resources, Andrew has trained and apprenticed innumerable home and school teachers, heads of school, and school boards. He has also defined, defended, practiced, and supported classical education at many conferences, conventions, and book retreats. 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, and the CiRCE Apprenticeship around the same time. He and his wife, Karen, live in North Carolina, and their five more or less classically educated and more or less home-educated children and ever more grandchildren live in various places, ranging from Uganda to Georgia, depending on when you ask.
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