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May 2017

May 03, 2017

BOOK RELEASE: Tell Them Something Beautiful by Sam Rocha

I am thrilled to announce the release of my book of essays, Tell Them Something...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

Philosophers of Education in Solidarity with Ayotzinapa

Today the Committee on Race and Ethnicity of the Philosophy of Education Society released the...

December 08, 2014

Book Release: A Primer for Philosophy and Education

After countless drafts and a strong run as a self-published book, I am very happy...

July 2014

July 04, 2014

A House is Not a Home: Domestic Church and the Art of Homemaking

This is part of the Patheos Catholic summer symposium, anticipating the Church's "Synod for the Family"...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Agonism, Antagonism, and Attitudes About Certainty

I think PEG really hit one nail on the head in his last post of...

June 26, 2014

Against Best Practices and Unintentional Philistinism

PEG has penned another fine rejoinder to my last, rather tedious, reply. I appreciate his...

June 22, 2014

Two Catholic Pragmatists Walk Into Bar: Illich vs. Montessori

My latest and longest reply to my esteemed Patheos colleague, Pascal Emanuel Gobry. My doctoral...

June 18, 2014

Against Methods: The Arts of the Ordinary

This is another reply to Pascal Emanuel Gobry, in particular to his recent reply to me...

June 17, 2014

What Can Go Wrong With Classical, Great Books, and Montessori?

I've written this post in reply to my esteemed Patheos colleague, Pascal Emmanuel Gobry, inspired...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

“Musings” on LATE TO LOVE with Iguana

Almost two years ago, my good friend and fellow philosopher of education (at Hofstra University),...

February 2014

February 13, 2014

Deschooling RED: Beyond the Fear of Failure

In 1840, Horace Mann, the first Secretary of Education in the State of New Hampshire...

February 11, 2014

Deschooling Religious Education, in Six Claims

1. Compulsory schooling came to the United States in the 18th century, during the Whig...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Compulsory Schooling and Preventative War — Or, Why Children Have to Go to School

In the secular liturgical cycle of the American year, two seasonal certainties stand out: going...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Pope Francis endorsed MY book, too!

For some time now we've all seen how much Pope Francis reiterates the central theme...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

Philosophy in a Trout Stream

Over the past two summers in rural Indiana, I rekindled my life-long love of fishing....

March 2013

March 05, 2013

The Teacher-Centered Classroom

Last week I gave two talks at Wabash College. The second talk was unfortunately not recorded....

February 2013

February 19, 2013

Is God an Introvert? A Review of “Quiet,” by Susan Cain

Michael Richmond was not my student, with the exception of his senior comprehensive oral exam....

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Space, and not being smart in an e-mail.

Sorry, readers. The end of the month is usually the time when I'm trying to...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Education, The Craft of Desire

There is a universal and inextricable relationship between desire and belief. This relationship contains and...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Two Notre Dame Rebuttals

My post yesterday defending Notre Dame produced a mostly interesting comment box --- including some...

November 16, 2012

A Proper Blog Post: Writing, Biology, Political Theory

I've made a full recovery from yesterday's outburst. I clarified a few things in comments and...