The Heights Forum
The Heights Forum
Partners in Formation
The Heights Forum is the outreach branch of The Heights School. Our mission is to support educational leaders, teachers, and parents in their own efforts to educate the children entrusted to them.
¡Bienvenidos!
Last week, The Heights welcomed a group of six school heads from Spain. Hailing from schools located throughout the Iberian Peninsula, the visitors were especially keen on learning about practically feasible ways to develop and improve the humanities programs offered at their schools. Through observations of core classes and strategic meetings with administrators at The Heights, the visitors worked on developing ways to integrate a solid humanities sequence into their already strong science and math programs. In addition to humanities, the school heads also sought to learn more about sharpening...
Fr. Carter Griffin: Magnanimity and the Great Souled Man
This week we feature a lecture by Fr. Carter Griffin, rector of the Saint John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C., to Heights Fathers on magnanimity.
June 13-14, 2024
Mentoring Workshop
The Heights School • Potomac, MD
A conference for men in education interested in personalizing education
From Pickles to Peacock Brains: The Friendship of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
Tuesday, 24 May 1763: The rain had stopped before sunrise, but the sooty-film it left on the cobblestones off Inner-Temple-Lane made Boswell nearly slip into the mire twice. A third time, and the thought of sliding into horse-dung and God knows what else might have warned him off, ill-omened, to be sure. But Boswell wasn’t so easily put off today, so he watched his footing, while the sounds of carriages and whipped horses and carts and jouncing coaches filled his ears with something like a medley, a humming tune of...
Intellectual Virtue and Personal Sovereignty
In an essay titled Elementary Studies in the book The Idea of a University, St. John Henry Newman narrates a fictional account of a weak student, identified by the generic name of Mr. Brown, who flounders on an oral entrance examination. Newman mentions that the underlying reason for his “inaccuracy of mind” was a “mental restlessness and curiosity.” The boy had read many books, books by authors such as Virgil, Cicero, and Xenophon that are considered classic works. But he read them in a disordered way, thinking “that the gratification...