88: Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Education, with Daniel Scoggin
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
EPISODE NOTES
Dr. Daniel Scoggin is the co-founder of Great Hearts Academies. Over twenty years ago, he started as the headmaster of a classical, liberal arts academy in Tempe, AZ. In 2004, Dan authored the original Great Hearts business plan. Great Hearts now serves 26,000 students at 42 schools in Phoenix, San Antonio, and North Texas, with immediate plans to expand into Louisiana and Florida. In addition to serving on the Great Hearts America board, Dan is the Academies Officer, overseeing school operations and improvement as well as further brick-and-mortar expansion nationally.
Great Hearts, Great Minds - City Journal
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius: The Annotated Edition
The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers (PDF)
The Great Conversation: the Substance of a Liberal Education, by Robert Maynard Hutchins
How to Think About the Great Ideas, by Mortimer Adler
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