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What Classical Education Needs
In this conversation, Geoffrey Meadows (Head of Upper School, Tulsa Classical Academy) discusses being a โhunter of causesโ and the need to translate enthusiasm into hard work in classical education. Together with Dr. Kemple, he discusses the importance of philosophy, the impact of technology on education, and the necessity of moral formation in students. Geoffrey…
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On Academic Gatekeeping
A Philosophical Happy Hour on admission to and exclusion from the halls of learningโor, the needs and excesses of academic gatekeeping. โShut your College gates against the votary of knowledge, throw him back upon the searchings and the efforts of his own mind; he will gain by being spared an entrance into your Babel.โ โ…
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The Growth of Consciousness
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the nature, growth, and importance of understanding consciousness. The concept of โconsciousnessโ today seems rather important: it is brought up in questions about artificial intelligence, neuroscience, the development of habits, โmindfulnessโ, self-improvement, and countless other related issues.ย But what is consciousness?ย Few good definitions seem available.ย Even many persons professionally…
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Do We Still Need Universities?
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the ends and purposes of higher education, universities, and the needs of teaching and learning. โReading Francis Sladeโs โEnds and Purposesโ In the nearly two-years since Claudine Gay’s revealed plagiarism and subsequent resignation from Harvard University, familiar questions concerning the function and legitimacy of academic workโquestions that, despite their familiarity…
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The Mystery of Being and the Rediscovery of Tradition
In this conversation, Dr. Matthew K. Minerd reflects on his intellectual journey, highlighting the influence of language and philosophyโthe dance of ฮฝฮฟแฟฆฯ before our eyesโin shaping his understanding of the world and his habits of inquiry. Listen as he and Dr. Kemple discuss the discovery of meaningful study, the development of a global intellectual perspective,…
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Philosophy and the Art of Reasoning
John Boyer joins Brian Kemple to discuss the decline of traditional liberal education and its impact on university curricula, emphasizing the superficial engagement with important questions in contemporary society, particularly through social media. In place of these superficial approaches, we ought to recover the Aristotelian understanding of causality, developing habits of real inquiry, and discovery…
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Beyond the University
Meaningful change never happens overnight. It takes years to establish and generations to perfect. The Lyceum Institute aims to build a new future for educationโknowing it will not come quickly or easily, but that from a few minds truly dedicated to the cause, we can bring new life to learning beyond the university. The renewal…
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On Higher Education
In recent years, a number of online alternatives to colleges and universities have been established, of which the Lyceum is but one, even as these conventional institutions expand their own digital presence.ย Many reasons spur on these alternativesโcost, time, location, curriculum, and so onโbut the principal reason (at the very least, for the Lyceumโs existence)…
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Education and Digital Life
The Founding Declaration of the Lyceum Institute, Education and Digital Life, has now been published in paperback, along with a series of related essays written by Faculty and Board Members of the Institute. This slim volume (117 pages) outlines the why for the Lyceum Institute’s existence as well as the manner in which it pursues…