I posit that virtue is not the chief end of education, but one of the chief ends of education. The ends of education are many. Every school has a profile of the ideal graduate, which includes close...
Virtue is the power in every organic thing to become what it was created or designed to be, or, alternatively, the success of that thing in doing so. And the complicating factor when it comes to a ...
Throughout the tradition of classical education, the cultivation of virtue consistently has been understood to be education’s chief end. That is to say, the primary goal of classical education is t...
My favorite quote from David Hicks sums up my philosophy of education: “The purpose of education is not the assimilation of facts or the retention of information, but the habituation of the mind an...
"The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him." For well over a decade, th...
To the question, “What is virtue?,” an old answer is that it is knowledge of things good for you and things bad for you. This is the answer Socrates gave and it remains, in the words of Alan Ladd’s...
