A podcast from The Cambridge School, a Christian Classical School in San Diego California, where we discuss an education worth pursuing. From Faculty and Administration to scholars across academia, we sit down with renowned names in the field of education to discuss both the classical and Christian principles that focus on formation, not simply information.
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Caleb Kapusinski graduated with the class of 2021 and now works in sales as an account manager for a general contractor. His episode is organized around two convictions he has carried into the workforce and has not stopped thinking about since. The first is that a smaller school creates space for a fuller person. At Cambridge, Caleb played basketball, ran cross country, performed in theater, and…
Stephen Priest graduated with the class of 2020 after attending Cambridge since second grade. He went on to Baylor University, where he majored in mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics, and is now completing a master's in philosophy at Georgia State, where his research touches on AI ethics and moral cognition. The throughline connecting all of it runs directly back to Cambridge. Stephen's…
Josh Kapusinski arrived at Cambridge in eighth grade expecting to enter ninth. His first lesson was in humility. His second was that literature could do in a classroom what it had always done for him alone at home. Josh now teaches rhetoric, speech and debate, and senior thesis at the Geneva School, a classical Christian school not unlike Cambridge. He spends a good deal of his time thinking about…
Aksel Yoder graduated with the class of 2023 and spent eleven years at Cambridge. He is now in college, and on Saturday mornings he meets with a classmate to read through the Gospel of John. That Bible study is the heart of his episode. Aksel's reading partner is a committed Christian, but one whose biblical foundation runs narrower than his own. What Aksel discovered in their conversations was…
Samuel Gingrich graduated with the class of 2019 and now works in market research, analyzing survey data for business clients. It is exactly the kind of work that demands the full breadth of a Cambridge education at once. His episode centers on what Cambridge calls the "both/and" approach to the humanities and the sciences. In his professional life, that integration is not philosophical; it is…
Sophie graduated with Cambridge's eighth class in 2025, having spent the better part of her life in the community from junior kindergarten through senior year. She is now a first-year at UC San Diego studying molecular biology. She is two quarters removed from graduation and already finding Cambridge everywhere she looks. The idea Sophie carried out of Cambridge is that there is always an occasion…
Isaiah Francisco enrolled at Cambridge in kindergarten and graduated thirteen years later with the class of 2023. He is now a junior at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in history and minoring in International Security Studies, and is preparing for a commission as a Naval officer. His story is one of formation meeting vocation. When Isaiah reflects on Cambridge, he reaches naturally for the…
Nathan Kim enrolled at Cambridge in its founding year in 2006 and graduated with the class of 2020. He went on to study economics at Gordon College and now works as an implementation specialist at Epic Systems in Madison, Wisconsin. But the most formative part of his story has less to do with where he ended up than with what it took to get there. Nathan didn't have an easy run of it. There were…
Ethan Chin graduated with Cambridge's eighth class in 2025 and has been part of the community since junior kindergarten. Now a freshman at Harvey Mudd College, he reflects on what it meant to spend formative years in a place that valued depth over speed, discussion over delivery, and formation over output. Ethan unpacks two ideas that have stayed with him: coherentism as an epistemological model,…
In this episode of An Examined Education, we hear from Emma Kim, Class of 2018, now a UC Berkeley graduate and returning faculty member at The Cambridge School. Emma reflects on her journey from student to teacher and the profound gratitude she feels as she celebrates Cambridge’s 20th anniversary from the other side of the classroom. Looking back, she considers how the school’s guiding vision, to…
