Sep 17, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
People bemoan the loss of craftsmanship, and rightly so. We wonder what has happened to pride and care about every little detail, just because. Indeed, too many have only read about such craftsmen. But there is something much deeper going on that often escapes our...
Jul 16, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
My father-in-law once explained why he wanted to ‘homeschool’ when almost no one else in the state was doing so. “I wanted my children to be like their mother rather than like the teachers in the schools.” Whether this was or is the best practical conclusion, it in...
Jun 18, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Although the lack of manners today is generally noted with disapproval, we often do not think of manners as a central feature of how we raise our children. But manners are arguably the major instance of a concrete, tangible thing we are failing to pass on, to the...
May 7, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Educating or forming the young is arduous in any time or place. But given our social nature, human formation is especially difficult in a decadent society. Since education is preparation to be a good member of the community, what happens when society itself is...
Apr 30, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
I saw the world differently after reading in Chesterton (in The Ethics of Elfland) that fairy tales help us see that reality is more wonderful than we can imagine. This is profound; our real-life situation is better than a fairy tale! This is perhaps nowhere more...
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