The dry and brittle heat of current-day school reform language has evaporated a significant historical strain of American educational discourse. Educational debate would be mightily enhanced in this ...

“The first rule of writing is not to omit the thing you meant to say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Today, as we look back on our history, we are awed by that miraculous confluence of character and brains ...

“The light is always identical in its composition, but it falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in it own form, for it is formless, but in theirs; in like ...