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On the Education of Young Men and Women - James V. Schall, S.J.

Jacques Maritain wrote one book (Education at the Crossroads) and several essays (collected in The Education of Man) on education.  Read more...

On the Home Front - Mary Hasson and Kimberly Hahn

Tell a reporter that you home school so your daughter can achieve academic excellence and you will now win grudging acceptance. But tell him it’s because you want her to know the Good, the True and the Beautiful, and to fall personally and passionately in love with Christ and His Church, and you will get the same old vacant stare. That’s the real point of Catholic home schooling, and the cultural gurus are still missing it.  Read more...

On the Mystery of Teachers I Have Never Met - James V. Schall, S.J.

My father, I believe, danced well, a talent that quite pleased the family.  Read more...

On The Will to Know The Truth: Newman on Why Men of Learning Often Do Not B - James V. Schall, S.J.

Men of learning often do not believe because they do not will to know the truth that makes us free.  Read more...

Oops! I'll Do It Again. And Again. And Again... - James Bowman

Beginning next month, the College Board will allow high-school students who have taken the SATs multiple times to submit only their highest score to the colleges to which they are applying.   Read more...

Opening a window on closed campus minds - Barbara Kay

A new documentary shows how repressive university political correctness has become.  Read more...

Our Listless Universities - Allan Bloom

Today a young person does not generally go off to the university with the expectation of having an intellectual adventure, of discovering strange new worlds, of finding out what the comprehensive truth about man is. Instead, the primary concern of our best universities is to indoctrinate social attitudes, to ‘socialize,’ rather than to educate. The result is true philistinism, a withering of taste and a conformity to what is prevalent in the present. …It means the young have no heroes, no objects of aspiration. It is all both relaxing and boring, a soft imprisonment.  Read more...

Outcome-Based Education - WILLIAM J. BENNETT

Some of the confusion surrounding outcome-based education is based on semantics.  Read more...

Parent-Free Zone - JOHN LEO

"Anticulturalism" is the dominant ideology among child development experts, and it has filtered into the courts, into the schools, into our kitchens and family rooms.  Read more...

Parental Informed Consent Notice - B. K. Eakman

The following letter is a useful template for parents wanting assurance that their child’s school will provide written notification whenever physical, mental health, or social services/counseling is administered to their child.  Read more...


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