20 Alumni Stories - Mason Settergren

20 Alumni Stories - Mason Settergren

From An Examined Education by The Cambridge School

March 6, 2026 · 8 min · Season 7 · Episode 9

About this episode

Mason Settergren reflects on his education at The Cambridge School and its impact on his intellectual curiosity and integration of faith and learning.

In this episode of An Examined Education, we hear from Mason Settergren, Class of 2024, now a sophomore at Hillsdale College studying Classics and Math. Mason reflects on how 13 years at The Cambridge School cultivated a deep and abiding intellectual curiosity. From physics and Greek to neuroscience and theology, he describes an education where subjects were never siloed but woven together, each illuminating the other. A memorable moment in 11th-grade physics, wrestling with the implications of the double-slit experiment, sparked not only scientific wonder but philosophical and theological reflection. Rather than dismissing those connections, his teachers encouraged them. At Hillsdale, Mason continues to see the fruit of that formation. In studying the history of mathematics, even the words of Bertrand Russell prompt him to consider beauty, order, and perfection as reflections of a Creator. For Mason, math, language, science, and faith are not competing domains, but harmonies within a unified vision of truth. This episode is a thoughtful meditation on curiosity, integration, and the distinctly classical Christian conviction that all truth is God’s truth. It is a reminder that…

People in this episode

Guest: Mason Settergren

Topics covered

  • education
  • intellectual curiosity
  • integration of subjects
  • classical education
  • faith and learning

Keywords

  • Mason Settergren
  • Hillsdale College
  • The Cambridge School
  • classics
  • math
  • education
  • faith
  • theology
  • philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hillsdale College, The Cambridge School

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