# The Old School Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563.md RSS feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-old-school Official site: https://aharteducation.com/ Author: Steven J. Bourgeois, PhD Episodes: 161 ## Resource Dr. Steven Bourgeois and Mr. Ross Miller lead an informal discussion between a current and a former teacher on topics that challenge "best practices" in contemporary education. In keeping with Neil Postman (1979), we support the conserving function of education: “Its aim at all times is to make visible the prevailing biases of a culture and then, by employing whatever philosophies of education are available, to oppose them.” ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-old-school-3916563 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563.md ## Episodes - [Episode 161: On Books](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-161-on-books) — 2026-07-20T02:08:23+00:00 - [Episode 160: On the World Cup](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-160-on-the-world-cup) — 2026-07-15T01:48:41+00:00 - [Episode 159: On Ohio (and travel and a bunch of other things)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-159-on-ohio-and-travel-and-a-bunch-of-other-things) — 2026-07-06T00:50:38+00:00 - [Episode 158: On Memory](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-158-on-memory) — 2026-06-29T10:33:20+00:00 - [Episode 157: On Servant Leadership with Dan Albaum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-157-on-servant-leadership-with-dan-albaum) — 2026-06-08T22:21:26+00:00 - [Episode 156: On New York City](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-156-on-new-york-city) — 2026-05-25T01:45:32+00:00 - [Episode 155: On the German Mindset (and Americans too?)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-155-on-the-german-mindset-and-americans-too) — 2026-05-12T11:10:19+00:00 - [Episode 154: On Rootedness](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-154-on-rootedness) — 2026-04-28T02:07:00+00:00 - [Episode 153: On Volcanoes and Mount St. Helens](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-153-on-volcanoes-and-mount-st-helens) — 2026-04-07T03:56:38+00:00 - [Episode 152: On Plane Travel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-152-on-plane-travel) — 2026-03-30T15:00:58+00:00 - [Episode 151: On Fear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-151-on-fear) — 2026-03-23T21:12:21+00:00 - [Episode 150: On Language](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-150-on-language) — 2026-03-14T15:42:20+00:00 - [Episode 149: On Doctors and Health Care](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-149-on-doctors-and-health-care) — 2026-03-03T01:37:08+00:00 - [Episode 148: On the Olympics...and SPAM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-148-on-the-olympics-and-spam) — 2026-02-22T23:36:20+00:00 - [Episode 147: On Mysteries and Conspiracies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-147-on-mysteries-and-conspiracies) — 2026-02-15T23:27:56+00:00 - [Episode 146: On the Hiring of Teachers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-146-on-the-hiring-of-teachers) — 2026-02-02T16:20:55+00:00 - [Episode 145: On Winter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-145-on-winter) — 2026-01-26T19:05:06+00:00 - [Episode 144: On Midlife Crises](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-144-on-midlife-crises) — 2026-01-20T02:51:16+00:00 - [Episode 143: On Collecting Things with Dr. Alex Fingers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-143-on-collecting-things-with-dr-alex-fingers) — 2026-01-10T18:06:00+00:00 - [Episode 142: On Fandom (In a meandering sort of way)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-142-on-fandom-in-a-meandering-sort-of-way) — 2025-12-29T23:51:25+00:00 - [Episode 141: On Classroom Management with Dr. Ferrell Yeokum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-141-on-classroom-management-with-dr-ferrell-yeokum) — 2025-12-20T21:55:24+00:00 - [Episode 140: Mr. Miller Goes to Disney](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-140-mr-miller-goes-to-disney) — 2025-12-04T20:15:09+00:00 - [Episode 139: On Fixing and Building Things](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-139-on-fixing-and-building-things) — 2025-11-24T16:12:25+00:00 - [Episode 138: On the Long Road](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-138-on-the-long-road) — 2025-11-17T02:50:23+00:00 - [Episode 137: The School Turnaround Blueprint with Dr. Ericka Johnson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-137-the-school-turnaround-blueprint-with-dr-ericka-johnson) — 2025-10-27T01:37:50+00:00 - [Episode 136: On the 1970s](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-136-on-the-1970s) — 2025-10-20T01:02:24+00:00 - [Episode 135: On Dinner Parties](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-135-on-dinner-parties) — 2025-10-06T10:30:22+00:00 - [Episode 134: On Resiliency](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-134-on-resiliency) — 2025-09-28T20:22:01+00:00 - [Episode 133: On Albums and Technology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-133-on-albums-and-technology) — 2025-09-22T01:41:26+00:00 - [Episode 132: On Setting a Tone](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-132-on-setting-a-tone) — 2025-09-15T03:43:14+00:00 - [Episode 131: On Character with Dr. Matthew Post](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-old-school-3916563/episode-131-on-character-with-dr-matthew-post) — 2025-08-18T03:23:14+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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