Lost Tools Podcast

By: Veritas Christian Academy
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  • Lost Tools is presented by Veritas Christian Academy. Veritas is a private school with Classical Curriculums that are rooted in Christian Foundations and operate as a three-day University Model institution.

    This podcast is dedicated to exploring the foundations and praxis of Classical and Christian Education. It's main intention is to bridge an information gap existing in our current and potential families. Since Classical Education is something not wholly known by most, it is our desire to give our parents a robust understanding and insight into the "hows and whys" of our teaching methods. We feel it will be beneficial if our parents both know and support our methodologies. The podcast is led by two of our educators who are actually involved in the curriculum and day-to-day lectures. So, it is in fact a true behind the scenes look for our Veritas Community.
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  • Episode 8 Logic Part I: Introduction into Foundations and Aims of Logic School

    Episode 8 Logic Part I: Introduction into Foundations and Aims of Logic School
    Jan 16 2025
    Following the house analogy that Mr. Bianchet and Mr. Mullins presented for the Grammar School, in being the collection of material, the Logic School is focused on equipping the skills to plan and frame the rough construction. It is learning to assemble the bones and undergirding of what will become a beautiful dwelling place. If you've ever seen a house being built, they pour the foundation and then build what seems to be a stick house that has the shape and essence of a house but lacks the finished look. This is the same process required to build something linguistically. The construction workers must know how to create solid foundations, connect joints, secure headers, properly place load bearing walls, etc. to make sure that the house does not wind up a pile of busted lumber. We want to ensure that our students do not create ideas and thoughts that are so easily crushed by the heavy weight of critique and reality. Make no doubt, these proper construction techniques can only be acquired in the crucible of repetition and discipline; they must be forged not intuited.

    The Logic School is grades 6th through 8th, and it is where our students begin to hone English grammar skills, essay writing skills, and formal/informal logic skills. These are the proper tools required to make one a great orator who can both write and speak well. It is an extremely important part of the classical education because it is here that the student begins to be intentional about what they are doing and why.
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    31 mins
  • Episode 7 Grammar Part II - Continuing Grammar School Foundations and Aims

    Episode 7 Grammar Part II - Continuing Grammar School Foundations and Aims
    Dec 31 2024
    We continue our journey today into Grammar School foundations and aims. Mr. Bianchet and Mr. Mullins begin by discussing pre-rational/ pre-classical stages of learning. This is achieved through exposure to classical literature (fables, fairy tales, and mythologies) and music. It allows students to be primed to recognize and accept Reason when it arrives in Logic School. It also, cultivates the desire for beauty and longing later in the student's life. This is especially helpful in the Rhetoric stage where the beautification and effectiveness of language are both taught and honed. This stage is much more difficult if the Grammar and Logic stages are lacking, both for the instructors and students.

    Our hosts then bring insight that may often be overlooked when one is gathering resources in a Grammar or Primary school; one must make sure the resources are of the best quality. Only quality resources will allow the students to build quality structures (intellectual frameworks) that can withstand the rigors and demands of life, academic or otherwise. Mr. Bianchet and Mr. Mullins weave a web of interconnectedness from the Three Little Pigs to Plato to Sherlock Holmes to Narnia to The Metalogicon by John of Salisbury, synthesizing the disciplines of Philosophy, Theology, and Literature to further prove their position.

    It cannot be overstated that the Grammar Stage of Education may well be the most important, yet most neglected in the formation of fully formed humans, Christians, and citizens.

    You will not want to miss this episode!



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    34 mins
  • Episode 6 Grammar Part I - Understanding Grammar School Foundations and Aims

    Episode 6 Grammar Part I - Understanding Grammar School Foundations and Aims
    Dec 16 2024
    Welcome back for this two-part series on Grammar. In Part I, Mr. Wes Mullins and Mr. Ryan Bianchet continue developing their argument for what is Classical education and exposit how one achieves the primary aim of Classical education--becoming a great orator.

    The first step in the process is the mastery of Grammar education, so the hosts begin by defining Grammar and elucidating its role within the broader Classical framework. Mr. Bianchet uses the metaphor of one gathering building supplies for a house as that for the grammar aspect of our classical pedagogy. This requires repetition, memorization, and exposure to imaginative literature like fables and fairy tales; they must become familiar with the basics of both thinking and communicating. Far from being a lesser school in the Trivium, the Grammar School may be the most important of the three. We find it is extremely important to prime the students minds correctly so they can later master language and thought.

    We hope you enjoy this two-part series, and please consider rating this podcast and subscribing so that you do not miss any episodes.
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    32 mins

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