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Samuel Sadler

Samuel Sadler

Classical educator at Paideia Academy in Knoxville, TN — a Paideia alumnus who returned to teach Music History and is a graduate student at Hillsdale's Graduate School of Classical Education.

Sep 25, 2026

speaker_0HOST
26:23
If you went back past the mic, Samuel, if you had anything just in your vocation and in the life that you're seeking to lead, what have you learned from your granddad? Um, I actually
26:33
wrote, I don't know if I ever told you this.
26:34
I wrote a paper on you in college cause the assignment was, uh, it was an ethics class and it was, um, right about someone, you know, who embodies Christian ethics.
26:44
Um, and the three things, I guess it's really one thing with three qualities.
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It's faithfulness and humility and earnestness.
26:53
Um, I don't think I've ever heard you boast about anything.
26:57
Um, and, um, You have had just a long, consistent history of faithfulness at whatever you do, whatever you do, work at it as for the Lord, not for man.
speaker_0HOST
27:59
And then we'll wrap up the episode.
speaker_1HOST
11:44
Yeah, that's a great clarification.
11:46
Yes.
11:46
I mean, so I would say I'm glad it's out there.
11:49
And I would prefer classical over maybe just a generic public education.
11:56
And I knew a lot of people who taught in these classical charter schools and were Christians and solid Christians and were... able to share the gospel in that context.
12:07
But I am more and more firmly grounded in and committed to just a holistic Christian education, which the word paideia encapsulates.
12:18
I've also thought a lot about...

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speaker_1HOST
20:56
Just curious.

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