by office | Feb 17, 2019 | Archives, Free Content
Michael S. Moynihan (Excerpted with permission from The Heights website. The original article can be found here.) In our times, entertainments of choice, especially for school age children and young adults, are primarily electronic: video games, television, movies,...
by office | Dec 28, 2018 | In Practice, Member School Content, Science
The Science Content Standards for California Public Schools proposes that the science curriculum has as its goal forming “scientifically literate citizens in the twenty-first century.” This means that by the time students graduate from high school, they should...
by office | Dec 27, 2018 | History, In Practice, Member School Content
Restoring the Catholic Historical Imagination” — my title for this paper — is itself problematic. Why should anyone want to restore an imagination of history, that record of what J.R.R. Tolkien called “the long defeat”? At first glance, ancient history...
by office | Dec 27, 2018 | Archives, Member School Content
J.R.R. Tolkien once suggested that the great desire of Elves was to realize “imagined wonder” so powerfully that they and their hearers could almost forget the story wasn’t real. Many readers, especially the young, find themselves gripped almost that powerfully by...
