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Mark Grannis shares his quest, which ultimately leads him back to World War II, to understand an understated plaque on a lectern he purchased on eBay.

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.

This essay introduces a series on teaching students to become what Walker Percy calls a “sovereign knower.” Throughout the series, Michael Moynihan lays out a careful practical philosophy for teaching in such a way that students will be genuinely engaged, mind and body, in the process of education. You can find the rest of the collection here. 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…

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…

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.

What’s the point of spending a week in the woods? Put simply, it’s something worth doing, it makes us feel alive, and it taps into our inner humanity that is covered over by the grime of frontcountry comfort. But behind that sentence, a thousand thoughts may come to mind or, perhaps, one could be left more confused: after all, in what addled mind does waking from a dream of a cozy bed into a frigid night in a frozen sleeping bag, a thousand miles from nowhere, sound “worth doing”? Let’s…