Education

This book has been in the making for 10+ years, if not 3,000. In a way, you could say The Iliad is my odyssey!

I have little patience for poets. More often than not, my attitude towards this admirable artistic medium runs more along the lines of, "Spit it out, already!" than, "Oh, what a beautiful metaphor!"

I'm currently reading Britton LaTulippe's Revealing School: Discover What School Is Really Doing to Your Kids , and one of his claims is...

I can't be the only person who grew up thinking "good books" and "school books" were mutually exclusive categories. Now that I'm older...

Why is classical architecture almost universally beautiful, while anything "modern" is some shapeless monstrosity of concrete, steel, and...

I’ve noticed an alarming trend in society lately, and it’s to no one’s benefit. Flipping the knowledge of previous generations on its...

People like to think that each essay is unique. With every new prompt, we must start from zero with a blank page and new ideas. Not so,...

When I was a middle school history teacher, I sometimes felt like my class wasn’t as “important” as the others. The insecure corner of...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a major problem. Our education system is an incoherent hodgepodge of asinine theories,...