Episodes
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
What are Arithmetic and Music? | Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts: Episode 5
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
What are Arithmetic and Music? And, how are they related to one another? How should we approach studying these liberal arts? Shane Saxon and Mitchell Holley delve into arithmetic and music, the first two liberal arts of the Quadrivium.
Join us as we discover the true meaning and importance of the seven liberal arts. To many, the liberal arts are foreign concepts. To those versed in the classics and classical education, the liberal arts are common knowledge. However, both new and veteran must have a nuanced understanding of the liberal arts.
Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts aims to uncover the true meaning and place of the Trivium and the Quadrivium. In this six part series, "Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts," we define the terms, explain the means, and highlight the impacts of the seven liberal arts.
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
What is Rhetoric? | Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts: Episode 4
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
What is rhetoric at its core? Why is it important for modern students? Who do we base our standards of rhetoric off of? In this episode, "What is Rhetoric?", Shane Saxon and Mitchell Holley explain the significance of rhetoric in the liberal arts.
Join us as we discover the true meaning and importance of the seven liberal arts. To many, the liberal arts are foreign concepts. To those versed in the classics and classical education, the liberal arts are common knowledge. However, both new and veteran must have a nuanced understanding of the liberal arts.
Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts aims to uncover the true meaning and place of the Trivium and the Quadrivium. In this six part series, "Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts," we define the terms, explain the means, and highlight the impacts of the seven liberal arts.
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
What is Logic? | Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts: Episode 3
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
What is Logic? How does making valid distinctions and arguments help us communicate? Is there a difference between modern and traditional logic? In this episode, Shane Saxon and Mitchell Holley discuss logic in the context of a liberal arts education.
Join us as we discover the true meaning and importance of the seven liberal arts. To many, the liberal arts are foreign concepts. To those versed in the classics and classical education, the liberal arts are common knowledge. However, both new and veteran must have a nuanced understanding of the liberal arts.
Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts aims to uncover the true meaning and place of the Trivium and the Quadrivium. In this six part series, "Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts," we define the terms, explain the means, and highlight the impacts of the seven liberal arts.
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
What is Grammar? | Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts: Episode 2
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Is grammar the rules that define language or the language itself? How does grammar fit into the seven liberal arts and the trivium? What role does grammar play in a classical education? In this episode, "What is Grammar?", Shane Saxon and Mitchell Holley answer these questions, and more.
Join us as we discover the true meaning and importance of the seven liberal arts. To many, the liberal arts are foreign concepts. To those versed in the classics and classical education, the liberal arts are common knowledge. However, both new and veteran must have a nuanced understanding of the liberal arts.
Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts aims to uncover the true meaning and place of the Trivium and the Quadrivium. In this six part series, "Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts," we define the terms, explain the means, and highlight the impacts of the seven liberal arts.
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
What are the Seven Liberal Arts? | Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts: Episode 1
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
What are the seven liberal arts, and why do Classical institutions around the world hold them so dear? Is Dorothy Sayer's model of education rooted in the seven liberal arts? What does it mean to have a liberal arts education?
Join Shane Saxon and Mitchell Holley as they discuss the true meaning and place of the Trivium and the Quadrivium. In this six part series, "Discovering the Seven Liberal Arts," we define the terms, explain the means, and highlight the impacts of the seven liberal arts.
In this first episode, Shane and Mitchell delve deeper into the the broad question, "What are the Seven Liberal Arts?"

Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Best Moments From Classical Et Cetera: Season 1
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Classical Et Cetera: Season 1 had many great moments as friends and colleagues sat down to discuss the ins and outs of Classical Education. Shane Saxon brought in amazing guests to cover a broad range of topics, from Greek Tragedies to farming. We hope you’ve enjoyed this first season of Classical Et Cetera!
Classical Et Cetera will continue into Season 2 this coming Fall, so make sure to subscribe and enable notifications so that you don’t miss out when we return with Classical Et Cetera: Season 2!

Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Does Classical Education Create Leaders? | Paul Schaeffer
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Today, Shane Saxon sits down with Paul Schaeffer to discuss what it means to be a good leader. They also answer the question, “does Classical Education create leaders?” All this and more in this episode of Classical Et Cetera.

Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Best Moments From 1500-1800 A.D. in Classical Education | Dustin Warren
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
In this episode, Dustin Warren joins Shane Saxon in the studio to talk about top moments from 1500-1800 A.D. in Classical Education. The period after the Middle Ages (or the Great Middle as Dustin calls it), 1500-1800 A.D. offers many fun stories that encourage a breadth of history knowledge. Listen in as Dustin eloquently recounts these stories!

Welcome to Classical Et Cetera
Welcome to The Great Conversation. CETC brings together leading voices from the world of classical education to understand and engage with the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Join Shane Saxon as he sits down with experts, educators, and prominent voices in the world of Classical Education as they seek to discover a better education for a modern context by uncovering the philosophical foundations of the ancient world.
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