In high school, I did not care much about school. I managed to get by and do the minimum. Most of what I was taught was delivered in a mind-numbingly boring way. I just was not interested. I had things to do and people to see. School was… Continue Reading
After visiting a couple of hundred schools over the last decade, there is one clear thing a school must do to build a strong, thriving institution. It is not something every school should do, it is something they must do. Doing this one… Continue Reading
Four Reasons Why We Should Read and Discuss the Classics: Reading and discussing the classics make us better human beings. Classical educators have always touted liberal learning as inherently humanizing. The ultimate purpose of education… Continue Reading
Mortimer Adler, in his book, Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind, says, “I have found it almost impossible… to understand liberal [classical] education except in terms of what its end is.” More than anything else, if we… Continue Reading
Dear SCL Members and Friends, As we reflect on 2023 and look forward to a new year, the SCL team is grateful for the opportunities to serve so many schools across the United States and around the world. God has been faithful to grow the… Continue Reading
Michael Oakeshot, in his great book, The Voice of Liberal Learning, said, “Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine… Continue Reading
By John Donne Introduction by Eric Cook I have been reading Donne ever since my wife and I made A Valediction Forbidding Mourning our go-to when we were long-distance dating. I just started rereading John Donne: The Reformed Soul, the… Continue Reading
Dear SCL Members and Friends, A few months ago, SCL launched our first research project, the Thriving Schools Study, to evaluate the health and needs of school leaders across the country. Thank you to those who participated in the survey!… Continue Reading
A few years ago, I read the following about gratitude from Thomas Merton: “To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us–and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every… Continue Reading
