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July 26, 2016 How do you avoid moralizing a "morality tale"?
Welcome to episode 15 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he is joined by special guest Karen Kern and together they offer some tips for teaching stories that are essentially "morality tales" (like fables, for example) with moralizing them.

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18 min
July 13, 2016 How to Avoid Moralizing Stories (and Why It's Important)
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20 min
July 06, 2016 Is Calculus Lost on the Homemaker?
Welcome to episode 13 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he is joined by a special guest and together they contemplate a question about whether calculus and other subjects like it are lost on homemakers.

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16 min
May 31, 2016 Why does my daughter find it difficult to connect with mythology?
Welcome to episode 12 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he discusses the why it can sometimes be difficult for modern people to connect with ancient mythology.

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19 min
May 24, 2016 How does one train a child's affections
Welcome to episode 11 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he contemplates what it means to train a child's affections and what role emotion should play in education.

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18 min
May 17, 2016 How do I know what questions my students should be asking?
Welcome to episode 10 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he contemplates the kinds of questions that most help cultivate wisdom and virtue.

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20 min
May 10, 2016 How do I teach fables?
Welcome to episode 9 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he reflects on how to effectively teach fables to young children, and whether the moral of a story should be spelled out.

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19 min
April 23, 2016 What does "neo-classical" mean?
Welcome to episode 8 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he contemplates the varying definitions of the term "neo-classical".

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23 min
April 16, 2016 On Moralizing Stories
Welcome to episode 7 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he contemplates the tendency in parents and teacher to moralize stories and why it's probably not a good idea.

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20 min
April 08, 2016 Why is the magic in Lewis and Tolkien ok?
Welcome to episode 6 of the Ask Andrew Podcast, where Andrew Kern answers your questions about Christian classical education.

In this episode, he contemplates the kind of magic that we find in the works of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien and why it's different than the kind of magic found in the occult (with a rabbit trail about Homer, of course).

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16 min

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The Ask Andrew Podcast features weekly reflections on the purpose and nature of classical education from Andrew Kern, author of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping American, and President of…