Elizabeth Yeh

Posts by Elizabeth Yeh

August 03, 2017

Fine arts form fine people at Chesterton Academy

In school art may be considered a hobby, a break from real schoolwork, or a chance for kids to let loose and express themselves. At Chesterton Academy of Milwaukee, art is treated as nothing less than a virtue. Continue Reading...

July 25, 2017

New teaching program aims to revive Catholic education

For the past decade, Catholic education has been on the decline. Data from the 2016-2017 National Catholic Education Association Report shows that since 2006, the number of Catholic schools has decreased by 14 percent and the number of students attending Catholic school has decreased by 17.6 percent. Continue Reading...

July 19, 2017

Crisis in Europe calls for a ‘creative minority’

Recently at Acton University, Samuel Gregg opened his lecture “Benedict XVI and the Crisis of Europe” by diving into the etymology of “crisis.” It comes from the Greek word krisis, which marks the point at which an illness has reached its peak. Continue Reading...

July 17, 2017

Made on the sixth; made for the seventh

In his Acton University lecture titled “Creation and the Image of God,” Scott Hahn began with the assertion that we often ask the wrong questions about the creation story in Genesis. Continue Reading...

July 14, 2017

Building the moral imagination

“How many people know how to ride a bicycle? How many people can explain how a bicycle works?” asked Michael Miller, research fellow at the Acton Institute, during his lecture on “Moral Imagination” at Acton University. Continue Reading...

July 12, 2017

Did Spider-Man read Thomas Aquinas?

For many of us, what is heroic about Spider-Man is not his ability to do “whatever a spider can,” but rather his effortless inclination to do what is good. But what makes Spider-Man good? Continue Reading...

July 11, 2017

Would school choice help conservatives recover from the ‘cultural massacre’?

The Spectator Australia published an article Monday claiming that the “culture war” between conservative and liberal values is, in reality, a “cultural massacre.” The carnage is evident in the numbers, specifically in education: in the United Kingdom, conservatives make up only seven percent of primary school teachers and only eight percent of secondary school teachers. Continue Reading...

July 10, 2017

Dorothy Sayers, school choice, and long run student success

Today’s Wall Street Journal article on education choice, “New Evidence on School Vouchers,” might look oddly familiar for those of us who have read Dorothy Sayers’ The Lost Tools of Learning. Continue Reading...