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Classical Liberal Education Conference

Organised by Dr. Kevin Donnelly AM

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Adelaide 2025

In 2025, Dr. Kevin Donnelly AM once again facilitated the Classical Liberal Education Conference, held this year in Adelaide.

This seminar followed earlier events in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane—also led by Dr. Donnelly—and brought together parents, teachers, principals, and Australians who have founded, or are in the process of founding, schools committed to a classical liberal education.

Dr. Kevin Donnelly AM
Dr. Bella d'Abrera
Dr Michael Casey
Conor Ross
2025 Panel
Fernando Farrugia
Margaret Chambers
Dr. Paul Morrissey
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Australian Catholic University Brisbane 2024

In 2024, the invitation-only Classical Liberal Education Conference took place in Brisbane's Australian Catholic University.

 

​The forum follows 2 previously held in Melbourne and Sydney involving parents, teachers and supporters having established or in the process of establishing schools dedicated to a classical/liberal education. An education that is intellectually rigorous, morally grounded and spiritually enlightening.

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Hosted by Campion College Sydney 2023

As Campion College in Sydney is one of the few tertiary institutions dedicated to the liberal/arts it should not be a surprise it was chosen as the location for the Classical Liberal Education Conference dedicated to exploring the nature and importance of a classical school education.

​Involving parents, teachers, academics and educationalists from across Australia, from Perth to Toowoomba, discussion centred on the parlous state of the existing school curriculum and the need to provide a better education. 

Dr. Kevin Donnelly AM: Opening Comments
Colin Black: What Constitutes A Worthwhile Education? A liberal Perspective
Professor Robert Carver: What Constitutes A Worthwhile Education? A Classical Perspective
Anna Krohn: Memory And The WEST'S Patrimony
Professor Simon Haines: Reality, Freedom and the Ends of Life
Sean Elgut: An Update From The USA
Changing Education
Professor Iain Benson: Virtues, Not Values In Education
Dr. Kevin Donnelly: The Purpose of Education
Tracey Rowland: What is a Classical Education?
RABBI Shimon Cowen: The Place of UNIVERSAL ETHICS in Faith-Based Schools
Barry Spur: The Place of Literature in the School Curriculum
Monica Doumit: Religious Freedom and Faith-based Schools.
Simon Kennedy: The place of History in the School Curriculum.
Diff Crowther & Michael Mendieta
John Smyth & Sam McClelland: Teacher Panel
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