Welcome, once again, to our discussion of Hamlet! In this episode we discussion Act 3, Scenes 3-4: the fall out of the play-within-the-play. Enjoy! 

P.S. Please excuse the loud performance of Gertrude by one Mr. Andrew Kern . . . 

Welcome, once again, to our discussion of Hamlet! In this episode we discussion Act 3, Scenes 1-2, two of the most important scenes in the play. Enjoy! 

Welcome to our discussion of Hamlet! Here in part 3 we discuss Act 2: The Spies. 

Welcome to our discussion of Hamlet! Here in part 2 we discuss Act 2.  We banter about Hamlet's sanity, Ophelia's purity, Polonius' manipulations, and TS Eliot's . . . wrong-ness . . .

In this week's edition of Quiddity Andrew Kern and Tim McIntosh, our friend from Gutenberg College, discuss Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Earnest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises and the fractured post-World War 1 culture - and how our modern times aren't so far off from the 1920's. They reflect on what this means for teachers and parents in 2014. 

Welcome to our discussion of Hamlet! Over the next several weeks we'll be discussing Hamlet, one act a time, here on the Quiddity pdocast. In this eposidoe we preview our discusison and talk about first impressions of the play. 

In this week's edition of Quiddity, Andrew Kern and the podcast crew reflect on ways to cultivate a love of learning: what to worry about, when to be patient, and even a little bit about the role of video games. 

In this week's edition of the podcast Brian Phillips, Chuck Hicks, and David Kern contemplate the important of sports - and physical activity in general - for classical educators. 

In this week's edition of Quiddity we are proud to present a recent interview with Andrew Kern, conducted by popular blogger and author, Sarah MacKenzie. In this conversation Andrew and Sarah discuss teaching from a state of rest - which also happens to be the subject of Sarah's new book, which you can learn more about here.  In fact, this interview is a part of the digital companion to the book. Many thanks to Sarah for letting us present this interview! 

Check out a sample of the book here and make sure you check out her blog here. 

For many classical educators, whether in the home or in a more traditional school, summer can be a strange season - a sort of in-between period. Almost like a warm, green, beach-infused purgatory. On the one hand summertime means a break in all the busy-ness of the school year, on the other hand it can be terrifying because it means a break in all the momentum you spent the year building. In this podcast Andrew Kern, Chuck Hicks, Brian Phillips, and David Kern discuss how to optimize the summer time. Hint: they talk a lot about letting the anxiety go. 

In this week's edition of Quiddity, the CiRCE Podcast, we discuss our Great Books Bracket and reveal the Final Four. Then we discuss who we think will win it all. Yes, we're taking this thing very seriously. 

While we thoroughly enjoy our weekly coversations here on the podcast - and the interviews that often come with them - there are far wiser folks out there who we think you should hear too. That's why from time to time we bring you a favorite lecture from one our annual conferences. In this week's edition of Quiddity, we present a lecture from the esteemed Dr. Peter Kreeft called "What Judgment Means to the Pursuit of Wisdom". This lecture was presented at the 2013 CiRCE conference in Baltimore, MD. 

In this edition of Quiddity, we discuss the new Coen Brother's movie: the much buzzed about, Inside Llewyn Davis. We talk plot, acting, music, Wittgenstein, and much more. 

In this week's edition of Quiddity, the podcast of the CiRCE Institute, Brian Phillips, Chuck Hicks, and David Kern introduce this year's CiRCE Magazine. We preview each of the magazine's articles and talk about the role silence plays in our lives, raising boys, and other topics the magazine brought up. 

To sign up for the magazine click here. 

In this week's episode of Quiddity, the podcast of the CiRCE Institute, Andrew Kern, Graeme Pitman, Chuck Hicks, Brian Phillips, and David Kern contemplate the value of the novel, what makes a novel great, and whether character or theme is more central to a novel's success. Then we interview Greg Wolfe, director of the Seattle Pacific MFA program in creative writing and publisher of Image Journal, about Slant Books--his new literary imprint--and the novels it's published so far. 

Question of the episode: What is your desert island (ha...) novel? 

In the first 2014 edition of Quddity, the podcast of the CiRCE Institute, Andrew Kern and Brian Phillips discuss what truly classical assessment should look like, how to assess our students in a way that treats them human beings, and much more.