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Education is seemingly at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence technology is making waves in the job market, in macroeconomics, in coding, and in schooling. A political commentator recently summarized the current situation this way: “Now with AI there really is no way for a mass assembly line style system to prevent kids from using ChatGPT to do everything for them… Public education was already dying. AI just killed what was left of it. It’s done… The public education experi

A free and useful mind has its limits. An experience we have all had is learning something great… but at the wrong time. Schools have to prioritize revisiting the previous year’s material because of the “summer slide,” where students simply forget what they learned the year prior. Fortunately, humanity has a long history of thinking on paper. It may be an exaggeration and too strong a statement to say that if you’re not writing, you’re not thinking, but not by too much. Our m

In asking how to make education meaningful, we’re also asking what the aim of education is. Our last post highlighted the expansive nature of education, mainly that it involves training students in virtue beyond mere assignments, in a word: soulcraft. Those assignments and curricula, however, are necessary parts of education. We must love God with our minds, and our minds must be free and useful, and even assisted. To this end, we’re committed to teaching the liberal arts in