Category: Article

Welcome to the new year! In a recent Mentor’s Compass episode, Alex Berthe discussed the importance of setting concrete and simple goals. For most of us, simply deciding to “be better” or “get better grades” or “get in shape” won’t cut it. We need simple things to keep in mind throughout the day. Here is a list of some of the simple things that our mentors might encourage their boys to try this new year. RISE (MAKE, SHOWER, EAT) THEN SHINE: Those first moments of the day are crucial, which is…

This article presents to the broader Heights community a 2016 letter written by our headmaster, Alvaro de Vicente, to Heights parents. Former Heights Headmaster, Dr. Robert Jackson, used to say that education is about the passing on of a culture. Our culture both represents and shapes who we are. Although inescapably exposed to the general culture in our society, while they are living at home, your sons’ most influential cultural experiences should be dictated by home and school. To this effect, we at The Heights seek to collaborate with you…

I bought my house in 2012, and it definitely needed some work when I moved in. Fortunately, I had two things to help build my confidence with home projects: 1) I didn’t have any money to pay someone else to do the work, and 2) My father did a ton of home projects when I was younger (and still does now). Seeing my father do all these things gave me confidence in knowing that I don’t need to be a professional handyman to get work done. And when I can’t…

We asked our teachers here on The Heights Forum how to improve the family dinner. They came up with 20 great ways to foster culture and family over a meal.

Here are some practical steps that parents can take to address the unmotivated underperforming boy.

When a boy struggles academically, we are tempted to focus exclusively on getting the grades up. More fundamental questions demand our attention, however, including what ought to be the first question we ask ourselves: Why?

Since 2008, more people live in cities than in rural areas. Eric Heil explains why we need exposure to nature in both the neurological benefits that it provides, and what we deprive ourselves of when we avoid it.

Of all the subjects once taught in school and now abandoned, the one that probably would get the least support for revival would be penmanship. This is sad.

Classics teacher, Tom Cox, analyzes the works of Aristotle to gain insight into the student’s job in and out of the classroom.

In Seneca’s Moral Letters, he mentions advice he had gotten from his teacher, Attalus. An analysis of the Latin reveals more from Seneca on teachers.