About Joshua
Bio
Joshua Gibbs is the director of The Classical Teaching Institute at the Ambrose School in Boise, ID. He has nineteen years of experience teaching classic literature in Christian schools, and he is also a lecturer on pedagogy and great books, offerings fall & spring classes online through Gibbs Classical and several popular courses on ClassicalU. He is the author of How To Be Unlucky, Something They Will Not Forget, The 25th, and Love What Lasts, as well as the pamphlets "A Short Introduction to Classical Christian Education" and "So Your Parents Want to Send You to a Classical Christian School." His books and pamphlets have received praise from figures that include Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, David Hicks, and Dr. Christopher Perrin.
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Since becoming a teacher, Joshua Gibbs has been a frequent speaker at conferences for the Circe Institute and other classical organizations. He is the creator of the In the Trenches podcast and the Proverbial podcast, and he has blogged for the CiRCE Institute for many years, as well as being interviewed by Front Porch Republic and Culture Feed and published on First Things. Gibbs is also a member of the Templeton Honors College advisory board.
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Joshua is married to Paula and they have two daughters, each of whom has seven names.