Monte Knetter

Sahar Dahi is a twenty-two year old Tic Tocker that gives relationship advice to millions of her followers. Specifically, she gives advice as to when someone should be completely cut out of another’s life. When interviewed by The Atlantic about her advice she was asked if she practices what she preaches. She claims that she […]

It is Postman’s contention that modern communication, with its emphasis on the visible, has transformed American culture from a typographical mind to an Instantgram mind. In one memorable example Postman pointed out that it is now implausible to imagine that anyone like our 27th president, the multi-chinned, 300-pound William Howard Taft, could be put forward

Two weeks ago I ended my message by stating that that the form in which ideas are expressed affects the content of those ideas. I think we can take this further and assert that the forms of discourse regulate, and even dictate, what kind of content can issue from such forms. For example, it is perfectly

The typographical mind, grounded in words and ideas, is worlds apart from what I will refer to as the Instantgram mind, a mind formed by images. To understand the distance between the two, consider the following. Postman asserted that until relatively recently, public figures were known largely by their written words and not by their

In Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman relates how on August 21, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met for the first of their seven famous debates. The arrangement provided that Douglas would speak first for an hour, then Lincoln would take an hour and half to reply, and then Douglas would get half

It is my conviction that the greatest threat to education is the breakdown of the family. The family is an institution ordained by God to welcome new lives into this world and lead them into maturity. Our society, even when we retain the form of the family, has largely rejected God’s plan and purpose for

Last year, Charis’s high schoolers performed Twelfth Night, the first Shakespeare play we’ve ever produced. As you can imagine, taking on a play by Billy Shakes himself is a pretty monumental task. If reading his plays for understanding is hard enough, playing a Shakespeare part requires expert knowledge of every monologue, line, and even word

Do Contemporary Schools Favor Girls Over Boys?  Before discussing this I think it is important to note that (1) boys and girls are different and therefore learn differently and (2) anytime one moves toward one group of people one moves away from another group. Let me take a moment to unpack the second statement. Consider

*Important note*: those of you who have talked to me about college already know that I honestly don’t have clarity on this question. What I write here is far more speculative than what I normally write, so please keep that in mind as you read. I remember a strange class during the end of my

If parents are the most important factor in their children’s education, what chance do my children have? I didn’t get a good education, how do I give my children what I lack? As a parent you don’t need to know everything, none of us do. In fact, some parents with great educations help their children