Caleb Kapusinski graduated with the class of 2021 and now works in sales as an account manager for a general contractor. His episode is organized around two convictions he has carried into the workforce and has not stopped thinking about since. The first is that a smaller school creates space for a fuller person. At Cambridge, Caleb played basketball, ran cross country, performed in theater, and served in house leadership, not because he was exceptional in all of those fields, but because the sc...
May 22, 2026•10 min•Season 7Ep. 20
Stephen Priest graduated with the class of 2020 after attending Cambridge since second grade. He went on to Baylor University, where he majored in mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics, and is now completing a master's in philosophy at Georgia State, where his research touches on AI ethics and moral cognition. The throughline connecting all of it runs directly back to Cambridge. Stephen's episode is a sustained meditation on how ideas connect. Latin and Ancient Greek taken simultaneously led ...
May 15, 2026•10 min•Season 7Ep. 19
Josh Kapusinski arrived at Cambridge in eighth grade expecting to enter ninth. His first lesson was in humility. His second was that literature could do in a classroom what it had always done for him alone at home. Josh now teaches rhetoric, speech and debate, and senior thesis at the Geneva School, a classical Christian school not unlike Cambridge. He spends a good deal of his time thinking about what his Cambridge teachers did and how they did it. The answer he keeps arriving at is that they m...
May 08, 2026•7 min•Season 7Ep. 18
Aksel Yoder graduated with the class of 2023 and spent eleven years at Cambridge. He is now in college, and on Saturday mornings he meets with a classmate to read through the Gospel of John. That Bible study is the heart of his episode. Aksel's reading partner is a committed Christian, but one whose biblical foundation runs narrower than his own. What Aksel discovered in their conversations was not just that he knew more than he realized, but that he knew how to think about what he knew. He coul...
May 01, 2026•13 min•Season 7Ep. 17
Samuel Gingrich graduated with the class of 2019 and now works in market research, analyzing survey data for business clients. It is exactly the kind of work that demands the full breadth of a Cambridge education at once. His episode centers on what Cambridge calls the "both/and" approach to the humanities and the sciences. In his professional life, that integration is not philosophical; it is practical. Understanding what a set of numbers means is one skill. Knowing how to shape those numbers i...
Apr 24, 2026•7 min•Season 7Ep. 16
Sophie graduated with Cambridge's eighth class in 2025, having spent the better part of her life in the community from junior kindergarten through senior year. She is now a first-year at UC San Diego studying molecular biology. She is two quarters removed from graduation and already finding Cambridge everywhere she looks. The idea Sophie carried out of Cambridge is that there is always an occasion to learn. Not as a platitude, but as an epistemological posture, one that refuses to silo intellect...
Apr 17, 2026•9 min•Season 7Ep. 15
Isaiah Francisco enrolled at Cambridge in kindergarten and graduated thirteen years later with the class of 2023. He is now a junior at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in history and minoring in International Security Studies, and is preparing for a commission as a Naval officer. His story is one of formation meeting vocation. When Isaiah reflects on Cambridge, he reaches naturally for the school's telos: think well, love rightly, live wisely. Not as a slogan, but as a lived framework he ...
Apr 10, 2026•13 min•Season 7Ep. 14
Nathan Kim enrolled at Cambridge in its founding year in 2006 and graduated with the class of 2020. He went on to study economics at Gordon College and now works as an implementation specialist at Epic Systems in Madison, Wisconsin. But the most formative part of his story has less to do with where he ended up than with what it took to get there. Nathan didn't have an easy run of it. There were years where the distance between who he was and who Cambridge was forming him to become seemed impossi...
Apr 03, 2026•9 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Ethan Chin graduated with Cambridge's eighth class in 2025 and has been part of the community since junior kindergarten. Now a freshman at Harvey Mudd College, he reflects on what it meant to spend formative years in a place that valued depth over speed, discussion over delivery, and formation over output. Ethan unpacks two ideas that have stayed with him: coherentism as an epistemological model, the web of interconnected beliefs that deepen and reinforce one another, and the paradox of the "ine...
Mar 27, 2026•16 min•Season 7Ep. 12
In this episode of An Examined Education, we hear from Emma Kim, Class of 2018, now a UC Berkeley graduate and returning faculty member at The Cambridge School. Emma reflects on her journey from student to teacher and the profound gratitude she feels as she celebrates Cambridge’s 20th anniversary from the other side of the classroom. Looking back, she considers how the school’s guiding vision, to think well, love rightly, and live wisely, quietly shaped her long before she fully understood its d...
Mar 20, 2026•13 min•Season 7Ep. 11
In this episode of An Examined Education, we hear from alumna Anna O’Neill, Class of 2025, now a freshman at Colorado State University, as she reflects on her 13 years at The Cambridge School. Anna shares how the house system and three years of student leadership shaped her growth, strengthened lasting friendships, and cultivated a deep sense of community. She highlights two enduring gifts of her education: learning to engage in thoughtful, charitable dialogue and developing a confident, well-gr...
Mar 13, 2026•6 min•Season 7Ep. 9
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 ...
Mar 06, 2026•8 min•Season 7Ep. 9
In this episode of An Examined Education, Sara Spinar, a member of the Class of 2025, reflects on spending her entire fourteen-year education at The Cambridge School before preparing to study Humanistic Studies at John Cabot University in Rome. Sara shares how the house system and Cambridge’s both and vision shaped her most deeply. While the school is known for academic rigor, she reflects on how that rigor was never merely about grades or performance. It was about virtue cultivation, about form...
Feb 27, 2026•10 min•Season 7Ep. 8
In this episode of An Examined Education, Emma Mohler, a 2023 graduate of The Cambridge School and current student at Hillsdale College, reflects on how her time at Cambridge shaped both her intellectual curiosity and her understanding of what it means to care for others. Emma shares how the sacrificial investment of teachers and the depth of relationships within the community formed her attentiveness to people. Through ordinary moments, conversations during lunch, after school help sessions, an...
Feb 20, 2026•11 min•Season 7Ep. 7
In this episode of An Examined Education, Alex Chin, a member of Cambridge’s eighth graduating class, reflects on spending twelve formative years at The Cambridge School before heading to Duke University. From pre-K through high school graduation, Alex describes Cambridge as home, a place shaped by deep relationships, rigorous academics, and a community that continually pushed him to grow. He shares how virtue formation, house leadership, and the rhetoric curriculum expanded his capacity for tho...
Feb 16, 2026•15 min•Season 7Ep. 6
In this episode of An Examined Education, alumna Jasmine Rupani Gingrich (Class of 2019) reflects on how her years at The Cambridge School shaped not only her academic path, but her understanding of grace, vocation, and faithful presence in the world. From discovering a love of rhetoric that led her to study communications at Gordon College, to working as a barista in Berkeley and later serving in church ministry, Jasmine shares how a classical Christian education formed her confidence, humility...
Feb 12, 2026•14 min•Season 7Ep. 5
In this episode of An Examined Education, Cambridge alumna Haley Hom, Class of 2018, reflects on her full journey through a Cambridge education and beyond, from grammar school through law school and into her calling as an attorney. Through a series of formative moments, Haley shares how the habits of thought, discipline of writing, love of learning, and support of a gracious community prepared her not for an easy life, but for a meaningful one. Her story traces the cumulative power of a classica...
Jan 30, 2026•15 min•Season 7Ep. 4
In this episode of An Examined Education, Cambridge alumnus Josh, Class of 2018, reflects on how a Cambridge education continues to shape his life well beyond graduation. Now a University of Chicago graduate and founder of a venture-backed AI company serving biotech and pharmaceutical firms, Josh traces a clear throughline from his time on Cambridge’s debate team to the work he does today. He shares how Cambridge’s distinctive approach to debate emphasized clarity, reasoned discourse, and pursui...
Jan 26, 2026•7 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Transcript: (Auto-generated) Welcome to An Examined Education, a podcast from the Cambridge School. At Cambridge, we often say that education is never merely about what students know, but about who they are becoming. For 20 years, our community has been shaped by conversations that ask enduring questions about truth, goodness, and beauty, and by a shared commitment to forming students who think well, love rightly, and live wisely. Today, the Cambridge School is honored to be ranked the number on...
Jan 16, 2026•8 min•Season 7Ep. 2
As The Cambridge School marks twenty years, An Examined Education opens a new season by turning to the voices that know its formation from the inside: its alumni. In this season-opening episode, we hear from Alyssa Kim, Class of 2022, now a senior at Georgetown University studying history on a pre-med track. Alyssa reflects on a journey shaped by Cambridge from pre-K through graduation, one that cultivated not only academic excellence but a way of seeing the world. From “living history” in gramm...
Jan 09, 2026•8 min•Season 7Ep. 1
In this episode of An Examined Education, we sit down with Cambridge School Latin teacher Donny McNair to explore the Roman historian Livy and the power of narrative in shaping a civilization’s moral compass. Livy lived through the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of Augustus' empire—a time of immense political and cultural upheaval. Through vivid, almost novelistic storytelling, Livy didn't just recount events; he sought to guide readers toward virtue and civic responsibility. Join u...
May 23, 2025•19 min•Season 6Ep. 5
What holds a society together when factions clash and partisanship rises? In this episode, Kelsey Bonilla, history and government teacher at The Cambridge School, unpacks the deep connections between law, government, and a flourishing civil society. We trace the founders’ inspirations from Rome to the Enlightenment, explore the responsibilities of citizenship, and ask how education can ground us in civic virtue today. Whether you’re a student of history or just wondering what keeps the American ...
May 01, 2025•16 min•Season 6Ep. 4
In this episode of An Examined Education, host Jeff Yoder sits down with Patrick Claytor, a Bible and Latin teacher at The Cambridge School, to explore how faith and community shape personal identity and societal flourishing. Drawing on the metaphor of a "cut flower society," they examine how secularization uproots individuals from traditional sources of meaning while people continue to seek community in alternative spaces. Claytor shares insights from his theological background on why church co...
Mar 21, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Longing to Know - Esther Meek Nicomachean Ethics Book VI - Aristotle An Essay in Regulative Epistemology by Robert C. Roberts and Jay Wood
Feb 14, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 2
An Examined Education, presented by The Cambridge School in San Diego, explores the foundations of classical Christian education and its vital role in today's world. In this episode, Jean Kim, founder and head of school, delves into Os Guinness's compelling metaphor of "cut flower civilization" - the idea that Western society continues to display the beauty of Christian and classical influences while being increasingly disconnected from these vital roots. Drawing from her decades of experience i...
Jan 31, 2025•19 min•Season 6Ep. 1
On Reading Well - Karen Swallow Prior
May 21, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In this podcast episode, DJ discusses the evolution of senior theses in classical schools. They explore how the tradition fosters critical thinking and reflection on enduring ideas, while adapting to technological advancements. DJ emphasizes the shift towards collaborative discussions and open-mindedness among students, aiming to cultivate wisdom and deeper engagement with the world.
Apr 30, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Doug is welcomed back on the podcast to give us a reading guide on America’s epic: Moby Dick. If you have yet to listen to the full episode on Moby Dick, make sure to go back and give it a listen!
Apr 09, 2024•6 min
Join us as we welcome back Doug Jones, our Literature Chair, to delve into the depths of "Moby Dick" on this week’s episode. This enlightening discussion explores Melville's creative writing prowess and the profound questions he poses to readers. Embark on an educational journey at sea, as we uncover the masterpiece that has shaped the minds of readers and influenced renowned authors. Come explore these intriguing waters with us as we navigate "Moby Dick."
Mar 21, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Amanda Sansonetti gives us some interesting insight into Gilgamesh as well as a few helpful tips for first-time readers.
Mar 07, 2024•3 min•Season 5Ep. 5
