Ep 09 | How Classical Education Nourishes the Soul: An Interview with Heidi White

As you now know, there’s a new language beyond the classical wardrobe door. We recognize it well enough to know we love what’s being said but we find ourselves hardpressed to translate it to share what is meant. Never fear. I’m joined today by the wonderful Heidi White to learn more of what classical educators mean when they say, “Classical education nourishes the soul.”

It’s even better than it sounds.

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Heidi White, M.A., is a teacher, editor, podcaster, and author. She teaches Humanities at St. Hild School in Colorado Springs. She is the author of the forthcoming The Divided Soul: Reuniting Duty and Desire in Literature and Life. She is a contributing author, speaker, consultant, and Atrium instructor at the Circe Institute and a weekly contributor on fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare on the Close Reads Podcast Network. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Anselm Society as well the Academic Advisory Board for the Classical Learning Test. She writes fiction, poetry, and essays, and she speaks about literature, education, and the Christian imagination. She lives in Black Forest, Colorado with her husband and children.

Find her work:

Close Reads Podcast | Substack

www.circeinstitute.org/atrium

www.instagram.com/heidiwhitereads

Restoring the Soul | Webinar mentioned

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Books that nourish Heidi’s soul:

Anything Wendell Berry but specifically Hannah Coulter, The Need to Be Whole, and A Country of Marriage

Anything C.S. Lewis but specifically Til We Have Faces and The Space Trilogy

Brideshead Revisted, Evelyn Waugh

Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri


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