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In the Trenches
What Do We Mean When We Say Classical Education Makes Us “More Fully Human?”
Ep. 47
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It has become a cliche to say that classical education makes us "more fully human." Can the idea be rescued from cliche status? Joshua Gibbs gives it the old college try.
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