The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: Truth, Goodness and Beauty
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“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?” This line by Christopher Marlow in Doctor Faustus (c. 1590) is one of the […]
Yes, We Are Thinking About Safety…All The Time
Recent events in South Florida are disturbing to those of us who teach and work in schools. On the one hand these events seem far away and removed; on the […]
Where do the Grads Go?
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Current and prospective parents often ask what our students do after graduation from the School of Rhetoric. They’re really asking a couple of questions, “Where do they go to college?” […]
Looking Forward to Easter
My students in middle school chapel all agree with me that they look forward to Christmas. Along about Halloween the stores are displaying their obnoxious Christmas sale signs, and by Thanksgiving, we […]
Character Matters Now
Wow! The last several weeks have driven home to me a singular truth. Character matters. And what is character? Someone quipped, “Character is who you are when you are by […]
I Didn’t Learn How to Learn…
How many times have you heard someone say, perhaps even yourself, “I didn’t learn how to learn until I got to college!”? I distinctly remember my own experience as a […]
What Does a New Covenant Graduate Look Like?
I can be anywhere when it happens. It’s happened at Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club and the Exchange Club – all venues where I’ve been a guest. It’s also happened at […]
A Coherent Curriculum
One of the most important questions we could ask of any curriculum is this: “Does the curriculum cohere?” To put it a different way, we’re asking if the curriculum progresses […]
Prayer and Noise
Americans are noisy people. At least the rest of the world thinks we are. There is some research to support this, suggesting that Americans are loud because we occupy a […]
Predictability And Support
At the annual faculty in-service at the beginning of the 2017 term, Headmaster Heaton addressed the faculty identifying several themes important to the long-term flourishing of our school and our […]