31 10, 2024

On Appreciating Education 

By |2024-11-01T15:11:54-04:00October 31, 2024|School life|Comments Off on On Appreciating Education 

Recently, I was put onto a tweet—now that the platform is officially X, what is a tweet called?—by a student at Oxford. The message of the tweet is one of appreciation for the student’s education. I quote at length:  I have always thought that there is a moral aspect to academic performance at Oxbridge (the term used as a referent to Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK). Given the competitiveness of admissions and the commitment of senior academics to the tutorial/supervision system, not trying one’s best is both irresponsible toward the position of [...]

25 09, 2024

Reflections on Grandparents

By |2024-09-26T12:19:14-04:00September 25, 2024|School life|Comments Off on Reflections on Grandparents

For millennia, education has been about passing on a heritage, a culture, and a way of life to the youth. Education is not solely about reading, writing, and arithmetic for its own sake but learning these subjects for a greater purpose. The concept of paideia, rooted in Ancient Greece, was one where education served to rear the ideal member of the polis or the city. That education, incidentally, made the child a wise individual as well. Extended to the Christian church, education was about raising and maintaining Christian men and women, who navigate both [...]

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