When the small liberal arts college where I teach locked down in mid-March due to COVID-19, we found ourselves, as in schools everywhere from kindergartens to the Ivy League, adjusting on the fly to ...

I believe I had a rare experience in my doctoral program in theology. I was given a seminar on the art of teaching. Often the challenge of mastering a discipline is so great that no attention is paid ...

Psychologists and sociologists studied average people to determine how everyday people understand wisdom and uncovered a set of characteristics shared across North America that shape today's ...

While people search for wisdom throughout their lives, it long has been overlooked as a topic for rigorous scholarship and scientific investigation. That’s changing at UChicago, which recently ...

What does practical wisdom mean in today’s world? Does the answer rest in your response to certain questions? Are you a practical person? Or, do you consider yourself a wise person? If you answered ...

We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that ...

This was early guidance given you by a parent as you headed off to school. You don’t think about it much but still practice crossing streets carefully, the advice implanted as a habit. Aristotle ...

This post was written by Barry Schwartz and Ken Sharpe, as will all subsequent posts on this blog. We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't ...

America’s response to the Covid pandemic has shown that two popular models for public leadership—the governing novice who relies on ideology or “common sense” and the brainy technical expert who ...