The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education. Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope. Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer. Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine.
Speakers: Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters
Highlights
1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy
2:00 The news from Nineveh
5:30 Signs of declines
8:30 Searching for a pony
16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals
23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling
25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond
26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war
28:15 Classics and community
32:30 Taking creative license with the gods
34:00 Disturbing images of beauty
40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata
45:00 Resources for Learning
47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not
48:30 March madness and the managerial class
51:45 Phone sex prophecy
55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same
58:00 Even better than the real thing?
64:00 1909 all over again
70:00 Truth buoys up
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Conference videos
Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents
