Education today is full of noise, pressure, and competing philosophies, yet the conversations on BaseCamp Live consistently point listeners back to what matters most: forming whole human beings. Across these episodes, you’ll hear thoughtful voices reflect on how schools and families can cultivate wisdom, character, attention, and a love for what is true, good, and beautiful. Rather than reducing learning to information transfer or performance metrics, these discussions explore how education shapes the heart, habits, and affections of the next generation.
Whether the focus is classroom practices, parent partnerships, or the deeper purpose of schooling, each episode invites listeners to slow down and reconsider what flourishing looks like for students and communities. These conversations offer encouragement, practical insight, and a renewed vision for education that honors the dignity of every child and supports the adults guiding them. This archive brings together a rich collection of ideas to help you navigate the journey of raising and educating human beings who are prepared not just for work, but for life.
Colleges are increasingly challenging places for Christians. Austin Gentry is a 20-something millennial who has written a new book for surviving college. As this generation is increasingly exiting the church as they enter college, students from Christian schools are not immune. In our interview, he shares some stories of what he is seeing on respected university…
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Gordon Pennington is one of the best cultural translators out there. His life reads like a fascinating adventure novel. In his marketing days in New York as the head of marketing for Tommy Hilfiger, he was courted by MTV and jet setting with celebrities and stars including David Lee Roth, Prince Albert and Johnny Depp….
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Wouldn’t it be helpful if someone took the time to translate today’s teen culture for you… the latest cultural trends, the media and technology revolutions, even the buzzwords – and then gave you a weekly briefing on what was happening? That’s exactly what my guest today, David Eaton, CEO and founder of Axis does as a way of helping all of…
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A school is only as successful as the home in raising the next generation. In many traditional and busy homes, mom manages “the school stuff” while dad is fully engaged in work. However, a father’s involvement is important, especially in classical Christian school homes. Which practices can fathers add to their parenting without adding guilt…
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Our guest today is Eric Cook, Head of School at Covenant Classical School in Fort Worth, TX and Executive Director of the Society for Classical Learning (SCL). He addresses the question: What do we want for our graduates at the end of thirteen years? Many classical schools articulate and even publish the goals of their graduates,…
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Students from MIT, two Classical Christian colleges, one “Christian” college and one state school discuss their experience their first year after graduating. They answer questions like: Did you feel prepared from your K-12 classical Christian School? Knowing what you know now, what questions should one ask when evaluating a college to attend? What has been…
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Raising the next generation is a team effort. Yes, school and yes, church, but what can we do at home to create an environment that helps develop a bold and confident faith in Christ? Parents choose their church, and classical Christian schools work “in loco parentis” or under the authority of the parent. So how…
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Classical Christian parents and educators are fond of saying “education is more than information – it is formation”… but what does formation really look like in a practical way? 100 years ago British educator Charlotte Mason wrote on how affections and habits are formed, noting what neuroscientists are now claiming as a new discovery! Our…
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The pursuit of grades is the all consuming end game for many students and parents today. Grades are the currency that our culture trades in and ultimately determine when a good education has been achieved. And in our culture, everyone deserves an “A”, or so we are encouraged to believe. Self esteem and personal values…
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It’s called the night that you will remember for the rest of your life… high school prom… yet for most of us, prom and other junior high and high school dances were anything but positive experiences. It doesn’t have to be this way! Join us for this episode of BaseCamp LIVE as we talk with…
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