Elizabeth Scalia
Many of you enjoyed Matt Emerson’s last piece for Patheos, where he looked at Education and the Dubious “Frontier” into which we’re launching ill-prepared students. As a lawyer who chucked it to become a teacher in a Catholic school (where the pay is meager, I am sure) he writes here about how almost no one [...]
Mad men, sad men and … happy men? Is it too difficult for Sesame Street to teach the concept of gladness? While watching this video, everything in me was screaming, “glad! GLAD! You’re GLAD MEN!” They missed an opportunity to make education dynamic: “This makes me happy! This makes me GLAD!” “Happy, happy, happy, we’re [...]
March is Women’s History Month, and a good time to introduce you to the sorts of formidable women who made (or are making) enormous differences to the lives of many, but who frequently go unmentioned in the mainstream. Today I am going to introduce you to three of them. Interestingly enough, the first two hail [...]
My husband is a Jesuit-educated fellow, and he has a great deal of respect for the way Jesuits help to hone a student’s reasoning abilities and encourage a life-long love of disciplined study. So he was both troubled and pleased — but admittedly mostly troubled — to read this piece by Matt Emerson, who teaches [...]
Photosource, Althouse, taken by Meade. “I NEEN QUALITY TEACHERS.” They need teachers who can instruct them to love the qualifiers that denote the character of a quality – whether it is high-or-low, good-or-bad teachers that they neen and want. But apparently Wisconsin students are being pulled from their necessary classes in order to help teachers [...]
It’s that time of the year again. As Ash Wednesday approaches (it’s later than usual this year, and am I the only one who feels likes she’s missing it and needs it to begin?) I’ll be suggesting books that may enhance the Lenten journey. Foremost in my recommendations will be this book, Jesus and the [...]
Catechist extraordinaire Lisa Mladinich, whose weekly column “Be an Amazing Catechist” has become a first-stop resource for RCIA facilitators and CCD teachers, has for the last two weeks been focusing on the challenges and rewards of serving the Deaf community of faith. Last week, she looked at the great needs within the church – what [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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