Episode 52: Memory and the Music of Language: A Conversation with Grant Horner and Karen Moore
About this episode
Christopher Perrin discusses the power of language and memory in education with Grant Horner and Karen Moore.
In this memorable episode of The Christopher Perrin Show , Christopher welcomes Dr. Grant Horner and Karen Moore—two veteran classical educators and authors—for a spirited conversation about the power of language, memory, and the poetic imagination in Christian classical education. Together, they explore how reading, writing, and reciting great texts form not only the intellect but the soul, training students to love truth, beauty, and goodness through embodied habits of attention and delight. As a key method of embodied learning, they consider the importance of doing some teaching in situ and walking the ground where these events and stories originated. Drawing on decades of classroom experience and curriculum development, Dr. Horner and Moore discuss the importance of early exposure to Latin, the recovery of ancient rhetorical arts, and the integration of poetry into daily learning. Their reflections touch on everything from biblical literacy and etymology to Shakespeare, Cicero, and the Book of Common Prayer—showing how the classical tradition equips students not only to analyze language but to inhabit it with grace and conviction. Listeners will come away invigorated to…
People in this episode
Host: Christopher Perrin
Guests: Grant Horner, Karen Moore
Topics covered
- language
- memory
- Christian classical education
- poetic imagination
- classical tradition
- eloquence
Keywords
- classical education
- Latin
- rhetorical arts
- poetry
- biblical literacy
- etymology
- embodied learning
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Shakespeare, Cicero, Book of Common Prayer
More episodes of The Christopher Perrin Show
- Episode 61: Hildegard College: Restoring Polymathy and Redemptive Entrepreneurship
- Episode 59: American Education: What It Was and Can Be Again
- Episode 58: The Divided Soul and the Prodigal Pattern: Duty, Desire, and the Way Home
- Episode 57: Remembering Well: Restoring History Through Sympathy, Story, and Place
- Episode 56: A Nice Definition of Classical Education: The Language, Metaphors, and Meaning Behind “Classical”
- Episode 55: From Fragmentation to Fellowship: The Intellectual Renewal Behind Classical Education
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Christopher Perrin Show podcast page.