Difff & James

Educating Humans

Education EN ↓ 77 episodes

Discussions about Classical and Liberal Arts education in Primary and Secondary schools in Australia. What is it, how it might be achieved, and most importantly, why it matters.

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Difff & James

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2. The Good is Always Useful 28.06.2022 36:01

James recounts his educational journey from being a capable yet apathetic student who did the bare minimum, to someone who loved learning and was excited about the good the true and the beautiful. How did a teenage boy who thought school was just about getting a job, and passing was all that mattered, grow up to choose to do a seemingly 'useless' degree like a Bachelor of Liberal Arts?...

1. The Purpose of Education 14.06.2022 29:46

Difff and James discuss the purpose of education. Is it primarily about 'getting a job'? Or should it be something more than that? There are a whole bunch of assumptions about education. Everyone has been to school and (pretty much) everyone's kids go to school, so whether conscious or not, we all feel like we know what schooling is all about. But it's the unspoken and unconsci...