Stuck in the 50s

The putting green is not only encountered at local golf courses, but inside the classroom of this Massachusetts school. An after-school club run by the school principal aims to teach the boys “traditional masculine roles” in order to build virtue. https://t.co/vgJnJ3zGX3 pic.twitter.com/TCqZ5QYzXQ

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 13, 2023

Things That Would Have Helped a Long Time Ago

A University of California, Berkeley, study found nearly half of postgraduate students met criteria to classify them as depressed. Take care of your #AcademicMentalHealh by being aware of the common stressors that postdoctoral researchers experience on their climb to success#RRI https://t.co/iyjAQvR2cZ

— Krzysztof Potempa (@BRAINCURES) November 13, 2021

Something to Introduce into Paideia

Educating children: this is the way. pic.twitter.com/05hJg9cNJ4

— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy) August 26, 2021

Finding Frassati

Christine M. Wohar's excellent book, "Finding Frassati and Following His Path to Holiness," presents the life story of Italy's Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati as a guide for everyday spiritual growth. https://t.co/656wON6U51

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 4, 2021

Sophia Institute Press



General guidelines for nourishing the spiritual life are important, but what young men need is integral masculine development/formation, plus concrete direction for their life. The same old usual, "get a job, start a family" isn't going to cut it.

Named After Wendell Berry

Are you looking for a transformative learning experience that prepares them to farm and strengthen agrarian communities? Check out this tuition-free undergraduate degree in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems at @sterlingcollege: https://t.co/w7o8eRbvkm

— Chelsea Green Publishing (@chelseagreen) July 7, 2021

FWIW

When I lined up speakers for this week’s Thomas More Center lecture series, I asked them to be provocative. Catherine Pakaluk came through big-time. Catch her lecture tonight; there’s a challenge there for every Christian! https://t.co/BDJD7DUFAY

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) June 30, 2021

When Does One Pass from Being a Liberal Educator to Being a Liberal?

How could students who have little grounding in the truth, i.e. they lack the requisite experience, possibly respond or be critical of the texts they read?

Wisdom on encouraging students to seek truth and empowering them to think critically and for themselves, from the indispensable Greg Lukianoff.

H/T @PamelaParesky

The Empowering of the American Mind https://t.co/EbfkArvt86

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 7, 2021

But Do the Students Have the Right Knowledge to Graple with Error?

1/ I "teach," in the sense of assign and discuss, work by Marx, Gramsci, and Marcuse. That's not because I think what they say is true. I think they're wrong on all the important points. It's because students need to know about them and students learn from engaging their ideas. https://t.co/ZxCd7qhB8w

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 3, 2021

Miseducated Youth

“My student, living entirely detached from farming, understood rain only as an inconvenience, rather than a vital means for sustaining life, and therefore as a demonstration of God’s generosity...”

Common Arts Education: A Review https://t.co/SaokFah79f via @frontporchrepub

— Jacob Torbeck (@jacobtorbeck) May 21, 2021

Proper Paideia for Males

A passage from Baron Von Freytag-Loringhoven's "Deductions from the World War" (1918).

A man who understands the moral dimension of leadership. pic.twitter.com/UtumYvRsUX

— QuintusCurtius (@QuintusCurtius) April 15, 2021

Another Review of How to Think Like Shakespeare

The Renaissance was fond of manuals, literally books that could be held easily in the hand. Newstok’s book is a manual in the very best sense of the word. It is intelligent, perceptive, readable, useful. - Matthew Stewart for @ubookman https://t.co/eLC0OSs3wz pic.twitter.com/KGuvPZ2qHa

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) January 8, 2021

A Future for Such Schools?

Not when preparation for the future requires relocalization and reintegration of education into one's network or tribe, especially the education of boys and young men.

No Man Left Behind: The Good News from Gregory the Great Academy by Christopher Check

Who's Funding Them?

Did Rob Hopkins get his ticket punched?

A new investigation into Rob Hopkins and the Transition Towns movement reveals some disturbing connections...#GreatTransition #GreatResethttps://t.co/6oer6HV0ra pic.twitter.com/RUQvExdb5W

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) December 4, 2020

All NGOs are suspect now, even those that talk about resilience and localism.

"Community is a core value. I mean, we’re not just isolated individuals trying to each become a billionaire. We exist only in community and we thrive only when our communities are healthy."

We need a #neweconomy - one that works for people and the planet.https://t.co/otuWFmwc0d

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) December 4, 2020

For anyone who missed yesterday's @HarmonyOrgUK event with Teach the Future, a recording is now available online.

Watch/ listen now to hear young speakers talk with real passion about the future of #education.

Available here: https://t.co/hFMloLsOtW

— SusFoodTrust (@SusFoodTrust) December 4, 2020

Prioritising #ExchangeValue has led neoliberal capitalism to develop unprecedented productive capacity; but this capacity is primarily used to produce more exchange value, undermining all other value forms.—@Simon_Mair for @TheLancetPlanet >> https://t.co/FWncYyh2zX #PostGrowth

— CUSP (@CUSP_uk) December 4, 2020

Corey DeAngelis with Jack Murphy

That felt good to finally rant about charter schools with someone who knows the drill!

Thanks @DeAngelisCorey for joining me today!

Teacher's Unions are killing our children with Corey A. DeAngelis - JML #042 https://t.co/SktLSZgAq6

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) December 1, 2020

I Agree with the Sentiment

But I don't think it is practicable -- descent and localization need to happen in a more ordered manner.

We should abolish 99% of universities

and return to apprenticeship for craftsmen

starting at age 12. pic.twitter.com/JKQ552GtAk

— Solarchitect | Arkbuilder. (@Solarchitects) November 28, 2020

Tomorrow

It's time to rethink civic education.

Join Wilfred M. McClay tomorrow evening to explore how we might promote a vivid and enduring sense of our belonging to one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the American Founding.https://t.co/PorzJvRjrl

— Intercollegiate Studies Institute (@ISI) November 18, 2020

Will It Be Co-Ed?

As you may expect, @TimKennedyMMA’s school is less like the traditional “sit in a desk all day,” and more like “do some multiplication and then get moving.”

Article by @kdubsy4https://t.co/H2ievF2XIL

— Coffee or Die Magazine (@CoffeeOrDieMag) November 5, 2020

Sounds like the pedagogy is supposed to be geared towards boys who can be energetic and have short attention spans, but if that is the case, why make it open to girls as well, if they have a different learning style? But more likely than not TK is PC.

Different Styles of "Learning"

This was an interesting exchange. Thoughts to follow in thread.https://t.co/pdsIFUCNLA

— GeniesLoki (@GeniesLoki) November 1, 2020

Even if we concede that sex differences entail the promotion of collaborative learning for women when possible, this should not be applied to their learning of ethics or catechesis.

Reading Out Loud

The Power of Reading Out Loud: https://t.co/TOT7RMd5Gm

h/t to @TheMundaneMuse

— Intercollegiate Studies Institute (@ISI) September 23, 2020

The Historical Mind

Babbitt and Ryn both cautioned against..the “idyllic imagination” which finds the highest virtue in a gushing sentimentalism where the essence of morality is found in the unleashing of potential human goodness from the predations of tradition and society. https://t.co/kBe8qLvEeh

— University Bookman (@ubookman) September 14, 2020

SUNY Press: The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age, edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston