Developing Classical Thinkers

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Developing Classical Thinkers is a classical podcast for classical thinkers, created and supported by the teachers at Thales Academy, a classical school in Raleigh, North Carolina. A Thales Press podcast.

Episode Date
Super Habits with Andrew Abela
Aug 19, 2025
The Joys of Teaching with Tiffany Whitaker
Aug 05, 2025
The Virtue of Justice by Kellie Scripter
Jul 31, 2025
The Virtue of Temperance by Winston Brady
Jul 29, 2025
The Virtue of Prudence with Anthony Esolen
Jul 26, 2025
The Virtue of Courage from Robert Luddy
Jul 23, 2025
What do Parents Want in a Classical School?
Jul 08, 2025
Happy 4th of July!
Jul 04, 2025
Limits & the Human Condition by Winston Brady | Ciceronian Society 2025
Jun 10, 2025
Work and the Meaning of Life with David Bahnsen
Jun 04, 2025
Memorial Day: Celebration and Gratitude
May 26, 2025
The Truth about Tariffs with Roberto Salinas León, Robert Luddy, and Winston Brady
May 13, 2025
Habits of Seminar Teaching with Chelsea Wagenaar and Chris and Kellie Scripter, & Winston Brady
May 06, 2025
Middle Schoolers and Space Travel with Marc Fusco
Apr 22, 2025
"Teachers and The Moral Imagination" from Zach Palmer
Apr 17, 2025
"Schooling as a Moral Endeavor in a Pluralistic Society" from Patrick Halbrook
Apr 16, 2025
"Life after the Department of Education" from Ray Nothstine
Apr 15, 2025
"Virtue and School Leadership" from Robert Luddy | Liberty & Literacy Forum
Apr 10, 2025
"School Choice: A Vehicle for Constructive and Meaningful Citizenship" from Professor Amy Wax | Liberty & Literacy Forum
Apr 09, 2025
Opening Remarks on 'Liberty & Literacy' from Winston Brady | Liberty & Literacy Forum
Apr 08, 2025
The Luddy Industrial Arts Program with Kim Tully
Apr 07, 2025
"The Anxious Generation" with Ashley Bahor & Olivia Holliday
Mar 18, 2025
Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics with Joe Wolak
Mar 04, 2025
Measuring Pi with Joe Wolak and Winston Brady
Feb 27, 2025
Masters of Men, Masters of Nature...FORMA Symposium Speech
Feb 25, 2025
Cutting Costs for Schools
Feb 04, 2025
Classical Approaches to Math
Jan 28, 2025
Classical Education & Classical Liberalism with Bob Luddy, Jenna Robinson, & Jake Noland
Jan 21, 2025
Direct Instruction: What It Is & Why It Works
Jan 16, 2025
Character Education, Virtue, and Super Habits | Robert Luddy & Winston Brady
Jan 14, 2025
Lessons from the Great Naturalists | Matt Ogle
Jan 10, 2025
The Heights Forum Recap
Jan 07, 2025
Is Christmas Classical?
Dec 27, 2024
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Dec 25, 2024
The Nature of Epic
Dec 10, 2024
Success in Circuit Lies | Chelsea Wagenaar, Fall Classical Summit 2024
Dec 07, 2024
The CCEP Program at Thales College
Dec 02, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 26, 2024
Teaching as Apprenticeship | Noah Kelley, Fall Classical Summit, 2024
Nov 22, 2024
"Principles of Science Education" with Tom Hardy
Nov 19, 2024
The Austrians on Inflation, Price Controls, and Tariffs | Brian Balfour | Fall Classical Summit 2024
Nov 14, 2024
The Great American Novel
Nov 12, 2024
The Lost Culture of Learning & Three Roads Forward | Ryan Olson | Fall Classical Summit, 2024
Nov 07, 2024
A History of Election Day
Nov 04, 2024
Is Halloween Classical?
Oct 30, 2024
Model Seminar: Quintilian's "Education of an Orator"
Oct 22, 2024
The Thales Canon
Oct 15, 2024
Conversation and Dialogue in the Classroom | Training Tips for Teachers
Oct 10, 2024
Classroom Management for Classical Educators | Training Tips for Teachers
Oct 08, 2024
Completion vs Accuracy: The Grading of Grades
Sep 11, 2024
The Lost Art of Writing Report Card Comments
Sep 03, 2024
Paul Cwik and "The Significance of the Austrian School"
Aug 16, 2024
The Virtue of Prudence: Moral Philosophy & Wise Decisions | Matt Ogle | Conference of Miletus 2024
Aug 01, 2024
Human Dignity & the Classical Tradition | Winston Brady | Conference of Miletus 2024
Jul 30, 2024
The Western Tradition & Our Intellectual Inheritance | Anthony Esolen | Conference of Miletus 2024
Jul 25, 2024
Natural Order & Curiosity-Driven Science Education | Robert Luddy | Conference of Miletus 2024
Jul 23, 2024
Conference of Miletus Wrap Up
Jul 18, 2024
Happy First Day of School
Jul 12, 2024
Visiting the Neuse: An Interview with Matthew Young at the Neuse Museum and Governor Caswell Memorial
Jun 25, 2024
The Lost Colony: North Carolina's Fort Raleigh
Jun 18, 2024
The Good Life, Re-Examined with Gary Hartenburg
Jun 11, 2024
Memorial Day: Gratitude and Classical Wisdom
May 27, 2024
Raphael and John Singer Sargent | Anthony Esolen & "To Read a Work of Art"
May 21, 2024
Great Hearts, Great Recap
May 16, 2024
Artificial Intelligence: Yet Another Hurdle for Teachers & Students
May 13, 2024
Freedom Maximalist | Interview with Leigh Bortins, Classical Conversations
May 07, 2024
Tried and True | Interview with Dan Coupland, Hillsdale College
Apr 30, 2024
Ken Pope & the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Apr 25, 2024
The Reality of Communism | Ken Pope, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Apr 23, 2024
"Lessons from my Parents: Freedom and Questioning" | Adrian Bejan
Apr 18, 2024
"On Entrepreneurship" with Robert Luddy | March 8, 2024
Apr 11, 2024
How to Watch an Eclipse | Robert Luddy, Melissa Svirida, and Winston Brady
Apr 06, 2024
Freedom and Physics | Adrian Bejan, Robert Luddy, and Winston Brady | March 8, 2024
Apr 04, 2024
St. Patrick's Day
Mar 14, 2024
"Culturing the Content" with Katie Flaherty
Mar 07, 2024
"Writing is Rewriting: Strategies to Help Students Become Writers" with Zachary Palmer
Feb 22, 2024
Classically Speaking
Feb 20, 2024
Who was St. Valentine?
Feb 14, 2024
Tentmaking with Paul
Feb 06, 2024
Three Hypotheticals for Classroom Teachers
Jan 30, 2024
Entrepreneurship & a Free Society
Jan 23, 2024
Goodbye Mr. Crownover
Jan 16, 2024
Virtue-Driven Leadership: An Interview with Rachael Bradley
Jan 09, 2024
The Essence of Christmas Films
Dec 21, 2023
Anthony Esolen and "Masterpiece Christmas: To Read a Work of Art"
Dec 12, 2023
Reflections on Pearl Harbor
Dec 07, 2023
"Federal Policies & Higher Education" with George Leef
Dec 05, 2023
The Great Reset
Nov 28, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2023
Anthony Esoleon and "To Read a Painting, to Enter Another World"
Nov 21, 2023
Andrew Zwerneman | How to Teach Literature: A Lively Kind of Learning | Fall Classical Summit 2023
Nov 16, 2023
The Thales Way with Bob Luddy
Nov 07, 2023
Robert Luddy | Modern Monetary Theory vs. Reality: No More Free Money | Fall Classical Summit 2023
Nov 01, 2023
Peter Forrest | Classical Education and Philosophical Anthropology | Fall Classical Summit 2023
Oct 24, 2023
The Yass Prize
Oct 19, 2023
Josh Herring | "Receiving the Given: Learning Gratitude from C.S. Lewis | Fall Classical Summit, 2023
Oct 17, 2023
Andrew Zwerneman | History: Seeing the Whole for the Whole School | Fall Classical Summit 2023
Oct 12, 2023
The National Debt | Luddy Lecture with Paul Cwik
Sep 21, 2023
The Lost Art of Writing Report Card Comments
Sep 13, 2023
Kaizen for Educators
Aug 31, 2023
The Classical Difference
Aug 24, 2023
Economics, Education, and Opportunity: A Conversation with Marianna Davidovich
Aug 10, 2023
Research & Writing | New Books from Thales Press
Aug 03, 2023
Matt Ogle, "Students of Excellence" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 27, 2023
Josh Herring, "Teachers of Excellence" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 25, 2023
Winston Brady, "Parents of Excellence" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 20, 2023
Bob Luddy, "Leaders of Excellence" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 18, 2023
Classical Education Down Under
Jul 06, 2023
Classical Education Up North
Jun 29, 2023
Congratulations, Class of 2023
Jun 09, 2023
Memorial Day: Gratitude and Classical Wisdom
May 26, 2023
Thinking with a Pencil: The Art of Annotating (and How to Teach It)
May 16, 2023
Wonder Leading Onto Wisdom: A Conversation with Ravi Jain and Phillip Johnson
May 09, 2023
No Laughing Matter: A Conversation about Dante and Teaching with Kristen Rudd
May 02, 2023
Begin at the Beginning
Apr 25, 2023
ChatGPT: The Educator’s New Dilemma
Apr 18, 2023
The Dethronement of Truth by Dietrich von Hildebrand | Bob's Book Review
Apr 06, 2023
Si No Es Barroco: Spanish Fluency Through Spanish Art
Mar 28, 2023
Swift or Grift? New Government Project or Scene from "Gulliver's Travels"?
Mar 21, 2023
St. Patrick's Day
Mar 17, 2023
The Gadfly on the Fly: How to Lead Seminars
Mar 09, 2023
Best Teaching Practices: Direct Instruction & Seminar Style
Mar 02, 2023
The Great Refrainer with Amity Shlaes
Feb 20, 2023
Who was St. Valentine?
Feb 14, 2023
That Great Conversation: An Interview with Jarrid Looney
Feb 09, 2023
To Have a Tomorrow
Jan 31, 2023
Educational Freedom: For the School, the Student, and the Soul
Jan 24, 2023
So Much Great Stuff with Mark Bauerlein
Jan 10, 2023
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Dec 25, 2022
The Meaning (and Movies) of Christmas
Dec 20, 2022
Data Matters with Hilary Herman-Pagliolo
Dec 13, 2022
Making It Stick: Thales Press Webinar with Matt Ogle and Winston Brady
Dec 06, 2022
How to Listen: An Interview with Richard Dryer
Dec 06, 2022
Benjamin Quinn and the (Classical) Education of Augustine of Hippo
Nov 29, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 22, 2022
Empowerment, Exit and Entrepreneurship: An interview with FEE's Kerry McDonald
Nov 15, 2022
Welcoming, Enriching, & Orderly: Cultivating a Joyful Classroom with Ashley Bahor
Nov 10, 2022
Review of "Freedom and Evolution" with Bob Luddy
Nov 08, 2022
Recreating Galileo's Thought Experiments
Nov 03, 2022
Anika Prather and The Black Intellectual Tradition
Nov 01, 2022
"Fake News? Three Golden Lessons of Social Epistemology" with Peter Forrest
Oct 26, 2022
"The Creature from Jekyll Island: The Workings of the Federal Reserve" with Brian Balfour
Oct 26, 2022
"Science, Wonder, & a Sample Lesson" with Matthew Ogle
Oct 26, 2022
"Teaching Classically & The Future of Our Children" with Jonathan Yonan
Oct 26, 2022
There and Back Again: From Charlotte, NC to Charlotte Mason with Holly Lee
Oct 19, 2022
Who was Thales of Miletus?
Oct 11, 2022
The Podcast of the Cave
Sep 20, 2022
What are Student Loans?
Sep 13, 2022
Classical Wisdom for Modern Test Takers: Interview with CLT-founder Jeremy Tate
Sep 06, 2022
Entrepreneurship: The Mark of Freedom
Aug 30, 2022
First Days of School
Aug 23, 2022
Thales Alumni: Lyle Broughton
Aug 17, 2022
Tree by its Fruits: A Summary of 2021-2022
Aug 09, 2022
Mathematics and Classical Education
Aug 04, 2022
What is the West?
Aug 02, 2022
A Guide to Guided Practice
Aug 02, 2022
Humanities and Classical Education
Jul 28, 2022
Science and Classical Education
Jul 21, 2022
Robert Luddy, "Founder's Address" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 20, 2022
Winston Brady, "What is True" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 20, 2022
Josh Herring, "What is Good" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 20, 2022
Matt Ogle, "What is Beautiful" | Conference of Miletus
Jul 20, 2022
Engineering and Classical Education
Jul 14, 2022
How (and When) to Lecture
Jun 28, 2022
Quintilian & the Ideal Orator
Jun 21, 2022
Silent Cal and the Calvin Coolidge Foundation
Jun 07, 2022
Technology and Classical Education
May 26, 2022
A Pilgrim in an Unholy Land: A Free-market Economist Advises the Kremlin
May 24, 2022
The Purpose of Higher Education
May 19, 2022
Welcome, Thales Pittsboro
May 17, 2022
Social Studies and Classical Education
May 12, 2022
Free Markets, Free People, Free Thinking: An Interview with Richard Vedder
May 10, 2022
How to be a Classical Teacher
May 03, 2022
Interview with George Leef
Apr 26, 2022
The Value of Memorization
Apr 19, 2022
Great Books, Great Teaching
Apr 14, 2022
Science, Curiosity, & Classical Education
Apr 12, 2022
St. Patrick's Day
Mar 17, 2022
American Greatness and Preparing for the Future
Feb 16, 2022
Who was St. Valentine?
Feb 08, 2022
Economy Check In with Brian
Jan 18, 2022
Mathematics: A Pedagogy of Wonder
Jan 12, 2022
Note Perfect: The Sound of Music
Jan 04, 2022
A Case for the Arts
Dec 15, 2021
The Makings of a True Teacher: Classical Education & Leadership
Dec 07, 2021
Bob's Book Reviews - "Great Society: A New History" from Amity Shlaes
Nov 30, 2021
The Thales Garden Club
Nov 16, 2021
Loving and Learning Latin
Nov 02, 2021
The Founding of LIT
Oct 26, 2021
Dystopia Myopia
Oct 19, 2021
Engineering as a Career Field
Oct 12, 2021
What is School Choice?
Sep 28, 2021
Bioethics and Classical Education
Sep 22, 2021
Back with Something New
Sep 16, 2021
Interview with Ashley Dundas
Aug 03, 2021
Interview with John D. Mays of Classical Academic Press
Jul 27, 2021
New Year, New Possibilities
Jul 20, 2021
Reading Gerald Manly Hopkins
Jun 22, 2021
J.R.R. Tolkien and Classical Education
Jun 15, 2021
Thales Apex Senior Send Off
Jun 08, 2021
The Joy of Economics with Brian Balfour
May 25, 2021
The Founder, the Senior, and the Teacher
May 18, 2021
Rolesville Senior Send-Off (Class of 2021)
May 11, 2021
All Things Debate
Apr 27, 2021
Paying Attention with Andrew Kern
Apr 20, 2021
The Socratic Method
Apr 13, 2021
Interview with Wilfred McClay
Apr 06, 2021
Reading Wendell Berry
Mar 30, 2021
Interview with Connor Boyack
Mar 23, 2021
Why Study History?
Mar 16, 2021
Lessons from Bob Luddy
Mar 09, 2021
Thales Alumni Interview: Sheel Chandra
Mar 03, 2021
Classically Educated: Frederick Douglass
Feb 25, 2021
Interview with Andrew Pudewa
Feb 23, 2021
Reading Richard Wilbur
Feb 09, 2021
What is Classical Education?
Feb 04, 2021
School Culture and Positive Expectations
Feb 02, 2021
Classically Educated: Dorothy Sayers and "The Lost Tools of Learning"
Jan 28, 2021
Building Bridges with Dr. Anika Prather
Jan 26, 2021
Don Devine and Winston Brady
Jan 21, 2021
Don Devine and Josh Herring
Jan 20, 2021
Don Devine and Bob Luddy
Jan 19, 2021
Classically Educated: George Washington
Jan 14, 2021
Thales Alumni Interview with Savannah Josey
Jan 12, 2021
The Year Ahead at DCT
Jan 05, 2021
King Lear (with Friends)
Dec 22, 2020
Make It a Great Break
Dec 18, 2020
Adler and the Art of Discovery
Dec 11, 2020
The Purpose(s) of College
Dec 04, 2020
Ovid and John
Nov 24, 2020
Lifelong Learners, New Locales
Nov 17, 2020
Midterm Survival Guide
Nov 10, 2020
The Quarter Ahead
Nov 03, 2020
Mic Drop, John Milton
Sep 21, 2020
The Podcast of the Forms
Sep 09, 2020
The Plague(s)
Aug 25, 2020
Mr. Pence Comes to Thales
Aug 20, 2020
C.S. Lewis' "This Hideous Strength"
Aug 03, 2020
Keeping (and Staying) Organized
Jul 31, 2020
Rolesville Senior Send Off
Jun 19, 2020
EOY Celebrations, Online
Jun 02, 2020
Apex Senior Send Off
May 28, 2020
G.K. Chesterton, "Manalive"
May 21, 2020
Teaching in the Cloud
May 08, 2020
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"
May 01, 2020
Teaching Classically, Virtually
Apr 24, 2020
Rolesville's Spring Band Concert
Apr 01, 2020
Kaizen and the Thales Way
Feb 14, 2020
Habits of Entrepreneurship
Feb 06, 2020
The Joy of Being Classical
Jan 27, 2020
The Thales (Junior High) Way
Jan 17, 2020
Teach Like a Champion
Jan 14, 2020
Heart of the Text
Jan 06, 2020
Make it a Great Break
Dec 23, 2019
No Opt Out
Dec 16, 2019
Shoulders of Giants
Dec 09, 2019
Better Know Socrates
Nov 21, 2019
The Danish Socrates
Nov 14, 2019
D-I, K-5
Nov 07, 2019
Tolstoy and Yeats on Virtue
Oct 31, 2019
The Socratic Method Divulged
Oct 24, 2019
The Workshop of Humanity
Oct 17, 2019
The Art of Right Thinking
Oct 10, 2019
Watering Deserts and Cultivating Souls
Oct 09, 2019
Reaching Enlightenment with the Fellows
Oct 03, 2019
Regional Classical Symposium Invitation
Sep 27, 2019
Really Ready for College
Sep 12, 2019
The Sound of Music
Aug 29, 2019
A Day at Thales with Ashley Bahor
Aug 22, 2019
All's Fair in Seminars
Aug 12, 2019
The True, The Good, and the Very, Very Beautiful
Aug 07, 2019
Descartes and Bacon
Aug 01, 2019
Science and Science Olympiad
Jul 25, 2019
High-Quality, Low Cost K-5
Jul 18, 2019
Thales Who?
Jul 11, 2019
Gravitas Revamp
Jul 01, 2019
A Liberal Arts Education with Dr. Grattan Brown
Apr 01, 2019
The Federalist Papers
Mar 08, 2019
What's Up with Hume?
Feb 18, 2019
Debate and the Thales Way
Jan 24, 2019
Teach like "The Prince"
Jan 16, 2019
Paradise What?
Jan 08, 2019
Dante's "Inferno"
Dec 19, 2018
Ancient All Stars
Dec 10, 2018
The Way, the Truth, and the Classroom
Dec 05, 2018
Tradition for the Sake of Virtue
Nov 21, 2018
Aristotle for Middle Schoolers
Nov 11, 2018
The Podcast of the Cave
Nov 03, 2018