120 Substance Matters with CLT’s Jeremy Tate (replay)

AMDG. In this replay of a conversation from April 2021, Jordan and Bonnie visit with Jeremy Tate, president of the Classic Learning Test. He explains how high-stakes tests drive and dictate academic focus in America, how he decided to go up against the behemoth that is the College Board in designing a different kind of college admission test, and how he’s challenged the societal status quo that excludes great thinkers like C.S. Lewis and John Paul the Great from the literature that test takers must examine. The group also discusses the immense time spent in test prep and what messages are sent by the materials studied in that time. Jeremy describes how the goal of classical education isn’t to make people better employees—it's to make them better humans—but how the best humans often end up being the best employees, too. He reminds listeners that tests give a snapshot into key academic areas at a given point in time but say nothing about the kind of person that a student is. And he distills his goals into a succinct call to action: read good books, read them a lot, and enjoy them.

Kolbe families always receive 50% off CLT exams by using the code KOLBE50. Additionally, CLT partners with colleges to sponsor CLT10 tests. For more information, check out this page on the Kolbe website.

 

Relevant links:

• Classic Learning Test (CLT) website
• CLT test dates and deadlines for the full suite of exams: https://info.cltexam.com/test-dates-deadlines
• CLT’s Journey through the Author Bank seminar series, a free webinar with a scholar from a partner college discussing an author from CLT’s author bank
• Anchored podcast
• Interview with CLT rep Brittany Higdon on Kolbe blog
• Student Spotlight: Interview with Kolbe Academy Student Meghan Rohatgi
• Kolbecast ep 83 This Is Only a Test regarding standardized testing for K-12 students

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