Adam Taylor, a former Marine and the son of Poetic Knowledge author James Taylor, has spent the last six years teaching his father's vision of education at St. Martin's Academy and is now co-founding St. Joseph's Academy in Mississippi. He tells Jason Craig how the goodness of his childhood carried him through a family tragedy and years apart from his father. He also makes the case that education has to reach the heart before the mind can build on it, a truth he says even classical schools can forget.
In This Episode, We Cover:
What poetic knowledge is—the sensory, emotional way we come to know and love reality—and what Dickens's Hard Times shows about an education that deals only in facts
How Adam came to terms with his father's failings in the years after the accident that took his mother and three siblings
Why a father who admits fault and lets his son into his suffering keeps a bridge open to that son
How real encounters form the imagination, and why Adam calls formation "a way to achieve prudence before your time"
Why boys need to make and break things, even as high school seniors
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