What is wonder? For me, it is the mystical essence, the underlying beauty of something grounded in the physical reality. It is a quality that transcends the five senses, and inspires an awe that cannot be owned. Wonder is not quantifiable, nor can it be reduced into rational components, as it transcends reason. It always inspires the imagination, a...

My favorite thing about John Senior, one of the most successful and influential teachers in the last century, is that his success and influence was not in talking about teaching or writing about teaching.  If the growing talk about his legacy seems to grow, his post-mortem fame is coming from the fact of his teaching.  He’s no John Dewey, famou...

The world inside our technologies is not the world. It is a construct of man. It can represent and inform us about the world, but it is not an encounter with it. The real world was made by God and is experienced through the senses, in the flesh, not through the medium of media. There seems to be an encroachment of the world made by man into the ...