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Ep #5: Meghan Ochoa

Ep #5: Meghan Ochoa

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 Meghan is a classical education teacher and head of The Loom, a collective for adults to grow in their humanity together, through Axiom Christian Classical School. Hear us talk about the distinctives of classical education and why it’s so needed in our culture today.For more info on what The Loom does, or to register for their upcoming conference on July 25 with Joshua Gibbs, please visit theloomabq.org. Episode Transcript(NOTE: Transcript is auto-generated. Errors may exist throughout.)Emily: Hello, I'm Emily Stewart and this is who I wanna be when I grow up. My guest on the show today is Meghan Ochoa. Meghan is a teacher at Axiom Classical Christian School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She's also the head of a community called The Loom, which helps adults grow in their collective humanity by reading the great books and recognizing the good, the true, and the beautiful in their everyday lives. I really enjoyed our conversation, and I'm very excited for you to hear it. Let's get into it. Meghan, welcome to the show. Meghan: Thank you so much Emily for having me. I'm very excited. Emily: So the first most obvious question that I ask everyone that comes on the show is, Meghan, what did you wanna be when you grew up? Meghan: This is kind of a funny question because I wanted to be two very different things, and the first was a, a diplomat to Africa. Um, and I actually studied, headed in that direction and then quickly found out I didn't wanna do that. And the other one was actually, um, I had a scholarship to go to F I T, the Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York City to do fashion design. But Emily: Wow! Meghan: I voted against that one. Emily: Wow, that's really interesting. Yeah. What was the turnoff to the diplomat path? Meghan: When I got far along enough in my, um, political science education that I actually did an internship in Washington DC, I just very quickly realized that I did not have the skin that it would take to pursue something within the political arena. Emily: Totally. Yeah. And then fashion, what got you interested in fashion stuff? Meghan: Uh, I've just always had a very creative side and I really enjoyed pursuing creativity through what I was wearing. It was a lot of fun for me. Emily: Yeah. That's really cool.Um, so you kind of touched on this a little bit, your background is in political science, that's what you got your degree in, so yeah. Tell me more about that. Um, your background. Did you get into Poli Sci specifically cuz you wanted to be a diplomat? Were there other things that contributed? Tell me more about that.Meghan: I actually really wanted to be a Philosophy major to start. I was in high school and my senior year I took this class called Western Civilization, and I felt like it was the first honest class I'd ever taken. Um, and I went, I went to public school in New York State. Um, and so our schools were pretty good. It just, I always grew up in a place where my schooling was one thing and then my faith was another thing, and so everything was like in isolated boxes. And, but when I took this Western Civilization class, everything smashed together and it just opened my eyes to this whole world. And so it really set me on this philosophy kick that I wanted to pursue.But my parents didn't love the idea of me just going to school to study philosophy. And so I thought, well, if I do political science, I can concentrate on political theory, which is basically the same thing, so, Emily: Yep. Mm-hmm. Meghan: So that's what I did. And I actually started my education, my college education at the University of Albany in New York, and I did two years there.And then, God really captured my heart and sent me flying in this different direction, and I transferred to Liberty University that didn't have an official political science major, but they did have a government major. And so I ended up pursuing a major in government with a concentration in international relations.But at that point, I'd had enough political theory that I had been somewhat satiated. And was ready to move on. So, and then that's the track that ultimately I was hoping where I would be able to be a voice and a diplomat to somewhere in Africa. Emily: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. That's really interesting. So you got a taste, um, like backtracking a little bit of kind of connecting the dots between faith and education or maybe even faith and reason, if you wanna say it that way. So what were some things that, you know, philosophy or government or other things in your background that really helped you connect those dots?Meghan: It was the truth that was uncovered in great books, being taught in a public school setting. I remember reading my senior year of high school, The Inferno, so book one of Dante's Divine Comedy, and I was totally overcome with the way that faith was speaking into a piece of literature. And then the way that we were approaching it from.Just an intellect based viewpoint or stance and recognizing ...
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