The Blackboard

To throw pedagogical punches is not to berate students; it’s to engage them in the ring. Most of them just need a nudge, a little jab that’s meant to be blocked.

My mom knew that she could not transfer the entire corpus of Western thought to us because she didn’t have it. But she did have love

Classroom culture may develop accidentally, but the truth is that a neutral classroom does not exist. Although her apologia is intended for classical Christian educators, Gerth speaks to all teachers

A peaceful crisis response paves the way for restoration and wholeness.

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits

Conservatives should reconsider the lessons of Romanticism.

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.

To rush AI into the classroom or into daily life is to put student well-being at stake. And as Kingsnorth reminds us, refusal to accept certain forms of technology can “enrich rather…

The promise of AI is utopian and seems futuristic, but its effects on the educational landscape will make students nostalgic for the pre-ChatGPT days of yore.