Weve all had good teachers and bad ones. What makes us scurry quickly from the latter and flock to the former? I believe it is just a few characteristics or traits that just about anybody can develop.

The Obama administration is the most anti-Catholic administration in American history.

When I first begin a new semester of teaching Philosophy, I always begin by asking students for their opinions on certain moral and social questions. In almost all cases the student's response begins with: "I feel that..."

A new study shows off the intellectual bankruptcy lurking behind the vapid emoting young people employ these days when discussing ethical issues.

For many years now, the gay movement has been using school bullying as a wedge to work pro-gay teaching into curricula and into the life of public schools, and to marginalize religious students and others who hold a traditional view of the morality of homosexuality.

American speech, like English speech, used to sparkle.

Ethics is not simply a question of what "What should I do in this situation?" but also, and even more fundamentally, a question of who "Who do I want to become?

With myriads of students beginning or headed back to the thousands of colleges and universities throughout the world, some free advice seems in order.

When I pulled my minivan up to the curb of the school sidewalk, my daughter, instead of saying the customary prolonged goodbye to her 4th-grade classmates while I look on rather impatiently, approached the van door without the slightest hesitation, waving a bright yellow paper.

"The Lost Tools of Learning" was first presented by Dorothy Sayers at Oxford in 1947.