Written by
Paul Kortepeter
When my youngest son was nine years old, his teacher gave me a call to express her concern about a particularly gory illustration from a story he was writing for a class...
Written by
Paul Kortepeter
In the winter of 2023, when ChatGPT hit schools like a meteorite, I instantly saw the threat to English composition. One of my best students, racing to meet a deadline, ...
Author Keith McCurdy recommends a negotiation-based approach to curfews where teens present their plans (who they are with, where they’re going, and why), and parents respond with mentoring and rea...
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...
