by Kevin Ritter In a recent issue of the Pirate, I described Edmund Burke’s notion of Moral Imagination and how that attribute was shared by many of the great minds of the western tradition. I described Burke’s belief that student’s…
Category: The Edelweiss Pirate
What’s an EDELWEISS PIRATE?
The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of German youth who stood in opposition to the Nazi seizure of power. Many were runaways who left home rather than be forced into the Hitler Youth. They were a disparate group of young people who loved freedom and made the decision to stand against tyranny.
Common Core State Standards Initiative
by Kevin Ritter Today in our schools there is a movement gaining traction that seeks to limit the reading of classical literature at the expense of what are being called “informational texts.” The movement, called the Common Core State Standards…