Your Children Will See Your Failings Someday w/ Adam Taylor
Sword&Spade
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 Resources Mentioned: * Fraternus * Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor * St. Joseph's Academy * Cornbread Catholic * Catholics' Lost Cause by Adam L. Tate JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Chapters: * 00:00: Adam Taylor, James Taylor, and John Senior's legacy * 02:46: What poetic knowledge is, and the horse in Hard Times * 10:17: A childhood immersed in the real * 17:58: Seeing a father's failings, and the accident at fourteen * 23:35: Letting your son into your suffering * 26:11: How the Marines began the healing * 31:10: What poetic knowledge looked like at home * 38:59: Imagination and prudence before your time * 46:02: Where classical education falls short * 53:25: St. Joseph's Academy, Cornbread Catholic, and the Catholic South Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.