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January 2017

January 18, 2017

Twenty-Five Questions to Ask and Things to Do Before Picking a College

I have spent over thirty years in higher education, mostly in Christian higher education. I...

January 17, 2017

Three College Half-Truths and How to See Through Them

One of my children got the mail and was excited. This young adult had received...

December 2016

December 17, 2016

She Makes Bleak Golden

If you do not read Christina Rossetti, stop reading this now and go buy a...

December 11, 2016

Graduation is Christmas

Christmas is a chance for a profound change: rebirth. One moment our broken being makes...

December 09, 2016

Stop Failing: Lessons from Virgil and Lucas

Don't Rejoice in Failure Dad knew a man who preached the same sermon every week....

December 08, 2016

Build a New City: At My Last First College Class Ever

Let's build a new city for the remnant of the people of God! That's a...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

I was guilty by association.

When I was in seventh grade at a school I shall protect, I was not...

October 2016

October 23, 2016

Hume Reminds Me: Take Me as I Am

When it comes to hard thinkers, it is all too easy to read them as...

October 18, 2016

Not a Timber Wolf. . . It was a Fox. Sigh

Papaw Earl was hard to beat. He would appear broke in Monopoly and my hopes...

October 09, 2016

Going Forward in Beauty: Be of Good Cheer!

I am joyful just now, because this is a great moment for God's people. Too many...

October 08, 2016

Going Forward in Virtue

Christianity is not a religion of retreat and the Faith is thriving, growing around the...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Living a Good Life in a Real City Requires Thinking

Recently a nice fellow on social media suggested my advice on some practical question proved...

September 28, 2016

A Glutton for Argument: Feast But Do Not Gorge on Words

Argument can help save your soul (by God's grace) or be a way to damn...

September 23, 2016

Screen Time: Too Much is Too Much

Kids are not smoking so much. That is good, but schools and colleges are seeing...

September 21, 2016

Passion and Liberty!

We are simultaneously in a time that celebrates passion, but is pushing technology on us...

September 19, 2016

Eternal, Yes. . . Yesterday, NO: Education and Tomorrow

We know what to do, but few seem willing to do it. Education needs to...

September 10, 2016

On the Misuse of Informal Logic

Formal logic is a fierce guide to validity. Move an argument from prose and analyze...

September 06, 2016

Picking a Canon: Rules for School

Want a hot argument? Pick a school canon! Whatever the reading list your school selects,...

September 05, 2016

Speak Real!

Long ago I had a student in Spanish who asked me: "Why can't they just...

September 04, 2016

On the Edge: How We Must Live

The most dangerous thing my wife ever placed in our house was a headboard with...

August 2016

August 28, 2016

In Which President Garfield is a Puppet: Public Schools Should be for the Public

Of all the things I expected when I got a bust of James Garfield (circa...

August 27, 2016

The Sorting Ceremony: Finding an Academic Home

Many of us are mentally lost, because we never found an academic home. We root...

August 26, 2016

Self-Esteem? Hardly! A truth about some students . . .

I know one student with too much self-esteem for every ten I know with too...

August 23, 2016

A Pillar in the Heart of Our School: Saint Helen: What if you win?

Losing is easier than winning. If you win, then you have the responsibility to govern....

August 19, 2016

Lessons from Mom: Asking the Right Questions

When I was a little boy, Mom would read books to me. Even when I...

August 13, 2016

True Education: Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand

William Blake wrote: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

“I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” College, Debt, and Administrative Bloat

Look at the cover of Consumer Reports and consider whether you should sign that loan document at...

July 03, 2016

Names Will Never Hurt Us (Cratylus)

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. How did...

July 01, 2016

With Eyes Wide Open: Death Comes to All (Phaedo)

A good man dies well, a great one makes his death matter. A leader looks...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

The One Clue of a School or College that is a Poor or a Good Choice

Picking a private school for your child or college for yourself is made difficult by...