Posts from the Scholé Academy blog.
Jane Eyre's hardest decision shows what temperance really is. A literature scholar reads Brontë's heroine as a woman running toward inner order rather than away from vice.
What it means to read charitably: receiving a text on its own terms, as C.S. Lewis's good reader does, before judging or using it.
Latin is multiform yet well ordered. A Scholé Academy Latin teacher explains how students learn to gather its many parts into one unified and ordered whole.
Why plug in the Christmas lights at all? Four levels of happiness, from laetus to sublime beatitudo, explain what the lights on a neighbor's house are really for.
James says no one can tame the tongue. This post reads that warning alongside Proverbs, Psalm 19 and Pieper on temperance, and asks how self-control in speech becomes…
Sophrosyne is the Greek name for temperance. From Saints Joachim and Anna to the Theotokos, this Orthodox reflection asks what it means to raise children in it.
Scholé Academy offers classes in the Great Hall and in three Houses of Studies, Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic, sharing the common ground of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds.
Alison Johansen on what poetry has to do with fortitude, from poets who paid for the truth to the quiet courage of Emily Dickinson's hope.
Children learn to read in stages, and the first of them involves climbing, balancing and singing. A learning specialist traces that path and the delight it can hold.
A plaster Beatrice bookend, Bilbo in the dragon's tunnel and a year of fortitude: a Scholé Academy teacher on the courage it takes simply to begin.
Galileo, the early biologists and a student robotics team all needed fortitude. A science teacher looks at the courage behind every honest hypothesis.
On the day before Palm Sunday, Orthodox Christians celebrate the raising of Lazarus. This reflection from St. Raphael School traces the feast's history and what it promises about…
