Practical Strategies for Strengthening Minds through Classical Education

About our Guest
Joshua Gibbs is a teacher, a lecturer on pedagogy and great books, and the author of several books that are listed in the show notes. For the last thirteen years, Gibbs has taught classic literature in Christian schools and earned acclaim for his writing. He has been a frequent speaker at several excellent classical conferences and published for many respectable classical education resources. His work can be explored on his website https://www.gibbsclassical.com/ 

We also encourage you to register for his 2023 Summer Conference sponsored by Templeton Honor's College. 

Show Notes

Joshua Gibbs offers more practical advice for Classical Educators. Following the discovery of, and the reasons for Classical Education, questions come up. We’ve been inspired, now we need more information about how and what to do. The new perspective is to teach how to think, not what to think.

Some Topics and Ideas in this Episode Include:

• What does Classical Pedagogy look like?
• Once theory is addressed, we need to hear from experience. 
• Where will we discuss presentation, grading, and homework? 
• How to spend summer vacation for students.
• Experiencing involvement with a literary character.
• Practical teaching of literature.
• The practical approach to learning from reading, reflecting, and discussing classical books. 

Resources and Books & Mentioned In This Episode

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Paradise Lost John Milton

Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri

Peter Leithart

Dorothy Sayers Trivum

Joshua Gibbs, "A Short Introduction to Classical Education"

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (This links to the book)
Jane Eyre Read by Juliet Stevenson on Audible

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anne Frank

Freedom Writers movie

Billy Collins Poems

Frederick by Leo Lionni

Visit: GibbsClassical.com

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