In 1998 author David Shenk coined the term “Data Smog” to indicate the confusion and congestion that stems from an overabundance of information without the time to adequately understand or process that information. If it could be said that… Continue Reading
As a theologian, I observe that God has prohibited images in His worship; in large measure because they are non-linguistic. Only language has even a fighting chance of facilitating a correspondence between word and world; image simply… Continue Reading
It is the part of the wise man to order and to judge. — Thomas Aquinas Having loaded my dishwasher, microwaved my coffee, and drifted over to my computer-desk to type this article (forcing me to turn off my Mp3 Latin course) my reflections… Continue Reading
Over the last few years, it has become increasingly common for schools to provide a computer (or access to a computer) to every student. The invention of the iPad has taken this growing trend and, through excellent marketing, turned it… Continue Reading
As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, Oh God.” Psalm 41:1 A friend of mine posted on Facebook a picture of his high school-aged daughter and some of her friends who attended a private school together… Continue Reading
Our job would be easy if all we had to do was transfer knowledge. If a student really were like an empty bucket that merely needed to be filled in order to be “educated,” then the hardest part of our task as teachers might be deciding what… Continue Reading
John Milton’s Areopagitica stands utterly alone in the great Western intellectual tradition. It was central to the rights of freedom of thought and expression n America’s founding and is the single greatest anti-censorship argument ever… Continue Reading
I don’t like Jane Austen, but I do like those Twilight novels about vampires in love.” “I don’t like Bach. He’s boring! I like rap music a lot better.” “I really liked that movie, especially the part when the slasher cut off the girl’s… Continue Reading
Aim at nothing and you will always hit the target.” – Anonymous Reality is more like rocket science than finger painting. Whether we want to admit it or not, reality is exacting. Reality is demanding and to meet its demands, accountability… Continue Reading
Early in his seminal yet humanistic autobiography, Henry Adams declares his thoroughgoing frustration with formalized schooling. “The chief wonder of education,” writes Adams, “is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers… Continue Reading
Assessment—a sweeping, daunting term, describing any number of methods in the field of education. While the very word often unnerves students and faculty alike, the classical grammar school teacher balks not at the excessive triviality of… Continue Reading
Having labored to establish the ends and means of good writing in the last issue, I should very quickly be able to show how a classical education answers them in every particular. Classical education by its very nature invites students to… Continue Reading
