It’s Not About The Running: Fathering One Step At a Time
Guest writer Sarah Weeldreyer reflects on the many miles logged, and many lessons learned, in watching a father and son prepare for the Marine Corps Marathon.
Guest writer Sarah Weeldreyer reflects on the many miles logged, and many lessons learned, in watching a father and son prepare for the Marine Corps Marathon.
Mike Ortiz, veteran English Literature teacher, examines the simplest tools that still trump the fanciest tricks of the AI landscape.
The classical liberal arts education movement is growing and vibrant. Over the past several decades, new secondary schools and homeschooling cooperatives striving to offer an education that engages with the best in our tradition have emerged throughout the United States and beyond. There are professional associations and publishing companies that support these new schools and homeschool families. There are even college programs geared toward training educators in the liberal arts tradition. The progressive model of education represented in most public schools and many private schools is no longer the only…
Many years ago, on Christmas Eve, a friend discovered to his dismay that it was the day before Christmas and he had yet to procure any gifts for his recently-wedded wife—a sense of desperation that some of us can surely empathize with, despite months of watching our wives or mothers stockpiling carefully chosen gifts that are agonized over, purchased, agonized over some more, and finally wrapped with a prayer of appreciation. In a fit of desperation, my friend drove off to local department stores shortly after the sun had set,…
It was my second year teaching and I thought I had everything figured out. My seventh graders were doing great in their classes and I was imparting sage advice left and right during mentoring sessions. Nothing could slow me down. Nothing, that is, until parent-teacher conferences came around. As it turned out, over the course of the previous academic quarter, my advice had been less than satisfactory. Several parents approached me with fair criticisms and certainly knocked me down a few pegs. Pretty quickly I realized that I didn’t actually…
Dystopian films so often show us the tradeoffs we make as we rely more on technology. Joe Breslin reviews Gattaca as a well-wrought examination of humanity, equality, and technology.
Grammar and Latin teacher Rob Greving shares some perspective to help us prioritize cleaning and even get better at it.
Mark Grannis, logic and history teacher, muses about the individual decisions that affect team outcomes in the college bowl games we watch this time of year.
Adults can regain the joys of a child through re-engaging with the local, novelties, and living seasonally. From a basis of attaining this child-like joy, parents and educators can then help guide boys to appreciate the same.
Lower-school teacher and author Joe Breslin reviews the biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’s coach and father, Richard Williams.