A Conversation about Why We Love Education (Part 1)
In this episode, Katie and Shannon begin a discussion about the nebulous topic "classical education." After attempting to distill a description of modern classical education, they move on to discuss their own educational background from learning at home from their parents, to their formal education at the elementary, secondary, and college level. They dive into their personal stories of how each of them came to develop a sense of what education ought to be while recognizing that they have so much more to learn. Enjoy!
Commonplace Quotes
Plato
The correct formation of our feelings of pleasure and pain, which makes us hate what we ought to hate from first to last, and love what we ought to love; call this ‘education’, and I, at any rate, think you would be giving it its proper name.
Hesiod
Before the gates of Excellence the high gods have placed sweat. Long is the road thereto and steep and rough at the first. But when the height is won, then is there ease, Though grievously hard in the winning.