About The Teaching Species
Teaching as inquiry. Teaching as resistance. Teaching as wonder.
Teaching Species is a podcast about how people learn and how teachers shape that process. It looks at the ideas behind education—how they form, how they are passed on, and how they change over time. The show draws on history, philosophy, and classroom experience to examine what it means to teach with care and with thought.
It is for listeners who see teaching not just as a profession, but as a way of paying attention to the world. Through stories, questions, and close study, Teaching Species invites reflection on the intellectual and human work at the heart of education.
Our Story
The Teaching Species began with a simple conviction: that teaching is not just a skill, but a way of thinking about the world. In most public conversations, education is treated as a tool—a means to economic mobility, social order, or personal advancement. But behind every curriculum and classroom is a deeper set of questions about truth, memory, freedom, and what we owe each other.
This podcast exists to ask those questions. It draws on the lives of teachers who refused easy answers, on stories that illuminate forgotten ideas, and on traditions of thought that recognize teaching as an intellectual and moral act. We believe that education shapes the way a culture understands itself. If we want better schools, we need better questions. That work begins here.
