The May 3/10 issue of World Magazine carries a story about pastor and author Eugene Peterson. When newcomers asked what activities his church offered, he replied “if you’d let me be your pastor I’d help you learn not to want so much activity.”

Because of record enrollment, Covenant Academy is planning to open new classes in grades 1, 2, 4, and possibly Kindergarten. If you would be interest in teaching for our school for the 2008-09 school year, please contact us. Update: We are opening a new Kindergarten class.

The May issue of Wired magazine carries a story entitled The Memory Master. The article portrays Piotr Wozniak as radically self-absorbed man obsessed with memorization, hardly a role model for classical education. However, Wozniak has discovered some principles that ring true and have empirical support. One of Wozniak’s principles is that the optimal time to review something [...]

Venture capitalist Paul Graham recently posted an essay entitled Be Good. His advice to start-up companies is Make something people want. Don’t worry too much about making money. He realizes this this is ”a description of a charity.” So to be a successful company, it pays to be like a charity. It also goes the other way around: … [...]

From John W. Gardner: Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often, we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them how to grow their own plants.

Paul Graham recently posted an essay How to Disagree. The essay proposes standards for logic and behavior when expressing disagreement in online communities.

Gene Veith has another article on appreciating beauty. He quotes at length someone who describes his path of discovery as going from being an outsider to being an insider.

The Dallas Morning News ran an article by Peter Leithart entitled New Christian education that’s decidedly old about Christian classical education. The newspaper article is condensed from the article The New Classical Schooling by the same author which appeared in First Principles.

Someone told me today that there is no word in the the Hebrew Old Testament for “teacher.” There is only a root word for “learn” that has one form for “one who learns” and another form for “one who causes to learn.” Compare this to the idea of a “lecturer” or “professor.” You can lecture [...]

Gene Veith announced his new book today on his blog. The title is “The Soul of Prince Caspian: Exploring Spiritual Truth in the Land of Narnia.”