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What’s the Good of a School?
Helping your child flourish means not putting her first.
D. L. Mayfield
Essay
A Debt to Education
Student debt forms us just as radically as a university curriculum does.
John Thornton Jr.
Essay
Soviet Kindergarten
Kindergarten was a miniature model of real life, where days of glory and success intertwined with periods of failure and bad luck.
Eugene Vodolazkin
Personal History
The World Is Your Classroom
A grandmother’s advice: Love life and love people, and the world will be your classroom.
Fida Meier
Essay
Orchestras of Change
José Abreu’s model of music instruction for the poorest children has been replicated around the world.
Essay

Insights

The World Is Your Classroom
A grandmother’s advice: Love life and love people, and the world will be your classroom.
Fida Meier
Essay
On Praying for Your Children
More is accomplished through prayer by carrying the matter quietly than by using many words.
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
Reading
How Far Does Forgiveness Reach?
Emmanuel and Cancilde, neighbors on opposite sides of the Rwandan genocide, tell their story.
Denise Uwimana
Reading
The Blessed Woman of Nazareth
Advent’s holiest consolation is that the angel’s annunciation met with a ready heart in Mary.
Alfred Delp
Reading
The Good Reader
Reading virtuously means, first, reading closely.
Karen Swallow Prior
Pawel Kuczynski
Portfolio

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Me and My Drum
The story of a little drummer boy who didn’t belong.

Arts & Letters

A Trio of Lenten Readers
In preparing for Lent each year, we find ourselves turning repeatedly to a handful of proven spiritual classics.
Maureen Swinger
Editors’ Picks
Verena Arnold
Saying goodbye to our sharpest proofreader.
Maureen Swinger
Lives
My Fearless Future
What was it like to be a girl when time was clocked by jump rope chants?
Another View
The Given Note
A visual interpretation of Seamus Heaney’s poem asks where music comes from.
Julian Peters
Comic
Readers Respond: Issue 19
Letters to the editor.
Forum
The Children of Pyongyang
We are dedicated to establishing the first-ever treatment center for disabled children in North Korea.
Doers
The Habit of Lack Is Hell to Break
It rained while I was writing this / It rained, and my father died, / and it stopped, and it rained …
Christian Wiman
Poetry