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In the contemporary discourse about education, discussion of virtue as the goal of education is strikingly absent. If “virtue education” is mentioned, it is generally treated as an add-on to the curriculum, not as the overarching goal of… Continue Reading
It is a sad thing that our modern world has redefined virtue in negative terms. Rather than define a virtuous man as someone who actively practices the positive virtues of prudence, courage, justice, and temperance, we turn things on their… Continue Reading
100 years ago, Europe began its long, slow suicide in The Great War. It may well have been the greatest tragedy of the last millennium. A year earlier, Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shocked by the treachery of one of… Continue Reading
At the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the four children, now mature rulers in Narnia, are hunting a White Stag which leads them to the lamp post where all their adventures in Narnia began. In spite of their foreboding that… Continue Reading
When I settle down for bedtime reading with my boys, we frequently return to one of our favorite stories from Frog and Toad Together, in which Toad, after admiring Frog’s garden, plants seeds of his own. Eager for his seeds to grow, Toad… Continue Reading
Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957 educational reform in the United States has been generally motivated by a desire to be internationally competitive. Unfortunately, cycles of reform largely characterized by document-based attempts to… Continue Reading
We must endeavor to persuade those who are to be the principal men of our State to go and learn arithmetic, not as amateurs, but they must carry on the study until they see the nature of numbers with the mind only; … arithmetic has a very… Continue Reading
This summer there was a headline in my local paper that caught my eye. In large, bold, capital letters were the words, “FACING FACTS,” and then in bold type below that was the sub-heading, “Survey debunks negative opinion of teens and… Continue Reading
The day started like most other school days when I was in the first grade; Mrs. Schwartz instructed us to take out our Big Chief Tablet and, using our rulers, draw ten columns and then write the numbers from 0-100 with 10 numbers in each… Continue Reading
When I am in the middle of a lesson, cooking along explaining things, working examples, perhaps rejoicing in the beauty of the subject matter (or my own perception of cleverness in thinking up a new analogy), there is always one question a… Continue Reading
If we are to recover what has been lost in education, one of our most challenging tasks will be to reclaim mathematics as a liberal art. In particular, math faces not just the general challenges that confront other liberal arts but also… Continue Reading
Jim Van Eerden of the Big Questions with the students in our lives is essential. New resources are generating encouraging results that can hep transform family conversations. Continue Reading
