111 What Treasures Remain * Convention Day 3

AMDG.  If we made a list of FAQs about the Kolbe curriculum, the top question would likely be why Kolbe begins high school with Greek history, literature, and philosophy.  Today’s episode explores that question through a roundtable discussion with some of our resident experts: Kolbe history chair Therese Prudlo, philosophy professor Dr. Don Prudlo, former college philosophy professor and current Kolbe instructor Dr. Carl Hasler, and Kolbe literature teacher Michelle Kim.  Highlights of the conversation include how early Christian thinkers had to appeal to the Greek intellect, how a classical education combats the American tendency toward collective forgetfulness, and how students find themselves enthralled by and eager to engage with primary sources despite the time gap between Ancient Greece and Generation Z.

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• 102 A Great Commission featuring the 2022 graduation speeches, Ms. Ellen Finnigan’s among them
• 60 Mission: Possible
• 17 Secure to Explore
• 26 Truth in Person

This is Day 3 of the 2022 Kolbecast Convention. Listen here to Day 1 with Dr. George Harne or Day 2 with Matt and Erin Ingold of Metanoia Catholic.

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Check out Michelle Kim’s opening talk and prayer at Kolbe’s recent Open House.

Members of our panel today can be heard on these other Kolbecast episodes:

• 15 Asparagus Moments, 36 Embrace the Fifth Day and 37 Take a Moment with Therese Prudlo
• 64 Stricken by Ideas with Dr. Carl Hasler and Therese Prudlo
• 39 Reclaiming the Territory, 40 Windshield Time, and 78 The Kolbe Man Show with Dr. Don Prudlo
• 93 Good Thinking with Dr. Carl Hasler and students
• 70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service, 87 Home Base, and 94 A Boy, a Book, and a Library Mouse with Michelle Kim

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