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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
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Beauty Elevates. Beauty Educates. Beauty Endures.
In abandoning beauty, schools do not simply neglect an optional component of education; they amputate an entire mode of knowing.
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In Defense of Educational Boredom
The mind that never experiences "boredom" cannot hear its own voice. The consciousness that never encounters emptiness has no space in which to expand.
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Seven Essential Books for Understanding Classical Education
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The Subversive Art of Sentence Diagramming
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Obfuscation 101: The Lexicon of Empty Ed-Speak
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Fools With Tools Are Still Fools
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Seven Essential Books for Guarding Grammar
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Why I Lead a Classical School
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The Unstreamable Truth of the Lecture
What if showing up still matters? The live lecture remains a rare, vital ritual of shared thought. Learning, at its best, is a communal, embodied…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Edu-Tech Grift
AI is here to save education—just sign here, wire the funds, and forget the children.
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A Modest Proposal for the Advancement of 21st Century Learning
For reducing the antiquated burdens of reading, writing, and critical thinking among youth, and for advancing the noble cause of outsourcing human…
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The Subversive Art of Observation
Classical education’s commitment to seeing—seeing reality—is a kind of resistance, not merely to error, but to the machinery that institutionalizes it.
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A Response to Brown University's Plea for Continued Federal Entitlement
Interrogating the university's posture of institutional entitlement, bureaucratic self-regard, and selective moral indignation it so vividly—and…
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Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Teachers
His prophecy must be called what it is: a horror disguised as progress, the crowning insult of a technocratic age that dreams of perfect control but…
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How Classical Education is Transforming American Schools
In its recent report, Classical Schools in America: A Movement of Hope, the Heritage Foundation offers a quiet cartography of the growing alternative…
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