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An Argument about Teaching, Technology, and Being a Tool-Using (and Tool-Consuming) Species
An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word.
Forming the Affections of Our Children
Children laugh, after all, long before they understand or speak words.
A Statue of Icarus
Albert Camus once wrote: “We must imagine Sisyphus happy.” I would rather imagine Icarus landing.
Reading Catholic Social Teaching in Newark, New Jersey
Papal warnings about over-centralization shed light on the trajectory of the politics of Newark, New Jersey.
I Prefer Not To: Literary Laments in the Age of AI Dead Letters
Artificial intelligence gets the best of me most days. It demands too much. It takes a profession that I love and turns it into a soul-crushing curse.
Empower Those on the Front Lines
While students struggle, we ensure that all of our pieces of paper align properly and our electronic signatures are where they are supposed to be.
A Resurgence of Educational Localism? A Review of Skipping School
Unusually for books on homeschooling, Skipping School is written for both scholarly and general audiences.
Every Child is Born a Person: Classical Education for All
My background had taught me to view the labels, the deficits, first, yet Mason was pointing me towards the person...
How Allegory Opens the Door to Contemplative Reading
The puzzle pieces lie waiting, and with guidance and help from the teacher, the wonder and joy of reading can come alive.
Don’t Call it a Comeback
We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.
Inheriting Wisdom’s Mansion: A Review of An Invitation to the Liberal Arts
Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.
Becky Elder, a Local Kansas Matriarch (and More)
I walked into the makeshift classroom, saw quotations from McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers all around the walls, and assumed I was entering a traditionally conservative environment. But after a day of…
Large Language Models and the New Scholasticism
In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.
Architecture As Messaging
The endurance of the building itself reinforces implicit messages that foster good character.
The Abolition of the Human
AI is a technology that eliminates process. It offers the grail without the quest.
Excelsior
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
Taking a Turn Taking it on the Chin
But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love
The Black Intellectual Tradition: A Review
may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer
One Weird Trick to Getting a Perfect Education
The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn
Crafting the Ideal School: Finding a Balance Between High-Tech and the Hands
it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.
