Saturday Seminars, the virtual interactive presentations which are the cornerstone of our educational programming, started early in January with Professor Stayroula Pipyrou from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland with her enlightening presentation on Greek speaking populations in Southern Italy. A first for our program, the following seminar we enjoyed ancient music played on hand-crafted...Read More

The 2023 program for THE EXAMINED LIFE continued to offer new and interesting speakers to further expand our familiarity with Ancient and Modern Greece and to foster a growing intellectual rigor. Through readings, lectures and the annual Study Tour of Greece, our goal is to encourage teachers who work in our schools to think more...Read More

A project spearheaded by Stephen Guerriero to better reflect the growing vibrancy of the program. And, the next step in our focused marketing outreach to a younger and more diverse group of teachers.Read More

At the conclusion of the Study Tour of Greece, we will depart Athens the late afternoon of Sunday, April 23 to fly to Izmir on the west coast of Turkey with transfer to our hotel in Izmir or Kusadasi.Read More

ExL takes as its theme the Socratic call to “the examined life.” Through readings and lectures, our goal is to encourage teachers and students to nurture the search for wisdom and the ultimate power of principled thinking.Read More

After a three year hiatus caused by the Covid pandemic, 25 educators, including old and new friends of the ExL program, met in Athens Greece to resume the yearly Study Tours which are the highlight of our online educational program.Read More

By Stephen Guerriero - One of the greatest joys about teaching sixth grade Social Studies is being able to introduce my students to the world of Greek mythology. Many students have some idea of the Greek gods and heroes through popular YA fiction, but my classroom is a place where that mythology is contextualized and...Read More

THE EXAMINED LIFE is pleased to welcome you to our new website.  In 2019, before the pandemic, we celebrated our 20th anniversary with reminiscences of the years past.  But, also with an eye to the future.  One of the first items on our to-do list was to give our website a big sprucing up which,...Read More

After a two-year hiatus forced by the pandemic restrictions, in April 2022 THE EXAMINED LIFE’S Study Tour of Greece will resume.  Thirty teachers, writers, librarians, book people will shed the mantle of their professions and became wide-eyed students exploring one of the most remarkable cultures the world has ever known.  The study tour is the...Read More

What did we do during the pandemic? Sadly, we had to cancel first our 2020 Study Tour of Greece, and subsequently, the 2021 tour was not to be. But, we made the best of our situation and created a new seminar lecture series for the winter semester of 2021.Read More