The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education. Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope. Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer. Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine.

Speakers: Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters

Highlights

1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy

2:00 The news from Nineveh

5:30 Signs of declines

8:30 Searching for a pony

16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals

23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling

25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond

26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war

28:15 Classics and community

32:30 Taking creative license with the gods

34:00 Disturbing images of beauty

40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata

45:00 Resources for Learning

47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not

48:30 March madness and the managerial class

51:45 Phone sex prophecy

55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same

58:00 Even better than the real thing?

64:00 1909 all over again

70:00 Truth buoys up

Resources

Speaker bios

Conference videos

Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023)

Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents