Year End Efforts

Our year-end fund-raising drive had goals in stages, ranging from $20,000 to meet needs up to $50,000 to direct resources toward multiplying the information and resources we provide to educators and parents. As of right now, it is 10:07 eastern on December 31 and we are about $2000 short of our low end goals. If you appreciate the [...]

A Poem to welcome the new year

A child unborn, the coming year Grows big within us, dangerous, And yet we hunger as we fear For its increase, the blunted bud To free the leaf to have its day, The unborn to be born. The ones Who are to come are on their way, And though we stand in mortal good Among [...]

Shakespeare and Science

When I was in high school I discovered that people had different opinions about Shakespeare’s plays – what they meant, what specific passages meant, where he got his ideas, etc. In the back of my mind I formulated a general notion that one day I could settle all those questions. During college I still had [...]

A Simple Question

Which causes you greater anxiety: the possible risks of climate change or the risk of governments trying to stop it. This is the debate of the century and I don’t think it’s hard to see where the interests lie.

Writing, Running, and Ruminating

Follow this link to The Courier, a PDF of the Geneva School newsletter and read their articles on teaching writing to middle school students, the place of gymnastics in the classical curriculum, and Mark Noll’s call to the evangelical mind to smarten up. You’ll also see a model of a high quality school newsletter.

A World Worth Lying About

What the world needs today is a little more hypocrisy. Matthew Arnold pointed out that hypocrisy is “a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” Our age follows the counsel of Voltaire, who said you couldn’t accuse him of hypocrisy because he never presumed to say he was anything. Remember when virtue meant something? Maybe not. [...]

A Higher Glory

A school is a dream. It’s built on the fantasy that one can create a world, a community, a culture, that nourishes the soul and leads people to higher ends. For some the ends are individualistic, particular, even the self-indulgence of a self-important mind. For others the ends are higher – oriented toward the perfection [...]

A Christmas poem of sorts

Where do I turn When turning turns To Vertigo How can I burn When burning burns To Dust Look downward, angel Look upward, son Gaze on the offered bread =========================== I need help on that first verse. I don’t like the word vertigo but haven’t been able to think of a better one. The core [...]

Scholastic Welfare: Meet Medical Welfare

If you wonder what the new health care system will look like, the public schools would be a good object for study. You can find private schools and some of them strive to be affordable. But if you want a real education, you had better be able to fork out the tuition ranging from $10,000 [...]

Christ the Logos

Great post by my friend Winston Elliott in which he points to two works, one by Robert Barron (The Priority of Christ) and one by Steven Caldecott (Beauty for Truth’s Sake). For your mind to be fully in order, it must be ordered by and to Christ. Take a look at the claims at Winston’s [...]