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September 2016

September 02, 2016

Nature is Awesome: On Education in the Real World

My Mom would send me outside, despite protests, and tell me to come back when...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

We Stand Under the Angels: True Education

True education begins in the fear of the Lord and ends in wisdom. Amongst other...

August 24, 2016

A Pillar in the Heart of Our School: Saint Elizabeth, New Martyr . . What if you lose?

She was intelligent, capable, beautiful and born into a position to use all her great...

August 22, 2016

A Pillar in the Heart of Our School: Saint Lucy- the Genius of Simplicity

She was very young, not at all powerful, but she refused to bend to...

August 21, 2016

A Pillar in the Heart of Our School: Saint Anne- Mother Matters

We need more mothers in education for one simple reason: Education is for people and...

August 18, 2016

You Can Justify Almost Anything if You Like the Person

Brunhilde Pomsel worked for a man who was very nice in the office. If you...

August 16, 2016

A Good Discussion

Discussions: You have to have them, but you ought to do them well and not...

August 15, 2016

Idea: Don’t Waste Money on Politics Just Now: Rebuild the Magnaura

You could give money to one of our Presidential candidates or you could cut to...

August 14, 2016

True Education: Begins with Humility

"We're number one!" That can either be a celebration or a boast. It can also...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

God, Patriotism, and Books in School

Be of good cheer! If you are discouraged about the Presidential choices we have today,...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Listening to Lucy: The Short Way to God

The know-nothing and the pseudo-intellectual are the same personality type in different zip codes. The...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Education: What Has Changed What Has Not

If Jesus had online educational capacity, He would not have had 612 apostles. Online education...

February 07, 2016

Dickens on the Super Bowl

Today is the birthday of the literary showman, Charles Dickens. He was one of the...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

How to Spot Online Educational McCollege

Much online education is the equivalent of a restaurant that serves food that may not...

October 2015

October 04, 2015

God help us, but we must say, “Yes!”

If a gunman invades my workplace and asks the Christians to stand, then I hope...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

The Way School Should Be: Joyful

Charles Dickens was no saint, but he knew what a saint looked like. In his...

June 2015

June 14, 2015

Change the School, not Sam Houston

Photography was still new and mysterious when this picture of Sam Houston was taken. Men...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Speed of Discussion

Speed kills cultures. At the speed of mules, Medieval people learned to discuss, debate, and...

January 21, 2015

Mentoring: How Small Schools Can Be Better than Big Ones

Faculty matter. Other issues matter, but nothing counts more than faculty if we are discussing...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

Beware Becoming the Music Man: Reflections on a Weekend Reading Ion

We don't have to be told that there is trouble in the United States: we...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Jesus, Educator: A Higher Education, Part (IV/IV)

I have been told by marketing friends that in the United States only Abraham Lincoln...

September 01, 2014

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Higher Education (III/IV)

If you do not know Jesus, you will not go to Heaven when you die,...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Don’t Just Be Nice: A Higher Education (II/IV)

As the bill for school comes due, many of us ask: “Why pay for higher...

August 30, 2014

A Higher Education (I/IV)

Students return, professors are prepared, staff is ready: education continues. I love this time of...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Know the Mission

You work in a place, but you might not know the mission of the place where...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Good-bye “Psych,” Good Luck Castle

Family favorite Psych has no new episodes having lasted about two years past its expiration date. The...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Three Full Cheers for Rural Pastors!

As the son of a pastor, the grandson of a deacon, and the great-grandson of...

September 2013

September 07, 2013

But I like it . . .

When I like something, such as Disneyland, and it gets criticized on line, if I...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

Can’t Wait to Teach

I once popped into a professor's office and asked him if he was looking forward...