Do you ever have trouble getting motivated in PE?  Do you think that the running and stretching and jumping and throwing are for the athletes, but not for you?  Or are you an athlete, and think that you need only...

Physical education is not just about training your body.  It is also about forming your character. Remember during the Greek games last semester when Kiertan did the wall sit for 12 straight minutes?  By the end of it, her legs...

This week, we will consider the purpose and importance of physical education. It may be tempting to think of the academic pursuits—math, science, literature, etc.—as the real purpose of school, with “gym class” a fun little add-on.  That is how...

Mortimer Adler observed that “[w]hat binds the authors together in an intellectual community is the great conversation in which they are engaged. In the works that come later in the sequence of years, we find authors listening to what their...

We read literature for the adventure of it; old books to give us perspective; novels to get at the truth.  But stories also teach us about ourselves. In 2 Samuel, King David sins with Bathsheba and sends her husband, Uriah,...

G.K. Chesterton once observed, “People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that...

Some of you are reading Romeo and Juliet with Mr. Burghauser.  Shakespeare wrote his plays and poems over 400 years ago.  Others of you are reading Pinocchio with Mrs. Spaulding—it was written by Carlo Collodi almost 150 years ago.  Have...

The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and sing, And do not play at anything. Now, with my little gun, I...

Do you know what the most common subject of art is?  It’s people.  Man is fascinated with man.  Ancient cave drawings, Egyptian tombs, Greek and Roman sculptures, medieval stained glass, Renaissance frescos, paintings from baroque to surrealism, photography,  pop art—so...

Art BY HERMAN MELVILLE In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt—a wind to freeze; Sad patience—joyous energies; Humility—yet...