Lectio Divina and Online Learning
by Margarita A. MooneyLectio divina, whether in seminar rooms or online classrooms, can be part of a creative solution to the challenges of education today. Continue Reading »
Style Reveals the Man
by Joseph EpsteinWriting cannot be taught, as I came to realize after attempting to teach it for thirty years to university students, but it can be learned. One can only teach the mistakes bad writers make and provide examples of what makes good writers good. One cannot teach a love of language, the power of . . . . Continue Reading »
How to Reform Higher Education
by R. R. RenoThe relief bill offers an ideal opportunity to redress the harms of higher education and move our educational culture in a direction that serves all Americans. Continue Reading »
AM[D]G
by George WeigelJesuit secondary education is unlikely to produce leaders if its self-presentation brackets God. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousAfter reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of how to understand it. Take, for instance, the following striking passage: Our age is a very definite age, a very well-defined age, precisely because it is bracketed by the first and second comings of . . . . Continue Reading »
Children's Books and the Christian Story
by Sally ThomasIt is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter fire struck in the night, the candle lit, the light of Christ filling the tomblike darkness of the waiting church. As a Catholic, I live and relive that liturgy every year; every year it astonishes me as no amount . . . . Continue Reading »
The Problem With Online Learning
by Mark BauerleinAcademic content is now implicated in a technology that youths have been primed to use, interpret, and value for different purposes. Continue Reading »
A Win For Religious Schools
by Richard W. GarnettThe Espinoza v. Montana ruling is the latest step in a decades-long doctrinal evolution that is as striking as it is welcome. Continue Reading »
Homeschoolers and Ideologues
by Samuel D. JamesHarvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet seems to think that only public schools are capable of creating responsible, mature, informed citizens. Continue Reading »
The Idea of the Catholic School
by C. C. PecknoldCatholic schools serve the common good of Catholics but also the nation as a whole. Continue Reading »
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