2025 Workshop Talk | 1:01:06 | All Grade Levels, Teacher & Classroom, Training & Certification, General Classroom, Literature
Summary
Socratic teaching and learning are not limited to older students. While high school students may read Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, others might stumble upon Coleridge’s poem, Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement, and nearly every elementary student will read Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.
Each of these sources—a philosophical text, a poem, and a children’s story—takes the reader on a Socratic journey. These three texts teach us what the Socratic journey is and how to lead our students of all ages along its path.
Speaker
Buck Holler is a former horse trainer and rodeo cowboy from Red Bluff, CA. Retiring from the rodeo circuit, Buck headed to New England to study theology and languages at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2001. Since then, he has worked as an educator and administrator in CA, New York City, and eastern NC. Buck first joined The CiRCE Institute as an apprentice in 2007, became a head mentor for the East Coast III apprenticeship in 2017, began the Latin Apprenticeship in 2019, and now serves in Kannapolis, NC, as CiRCE’s director of consulting.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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