Another approach, which Wieseltier might call crude but is lovely, is through Schoolhouse Rock's "Three Is a Magic Number": Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity… The past and the present and the future.
We all learned about these traits as children, either explicitly or through schoolhouse lessons about sharing, trying our best, and making wise decisions.
"Parents and teachers work hard to instill healthy eating habits in our kids, and these efforts shouldn't be undermined when kids walk through the schoolhouse door," Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, said in a statement.
Visit public schools anywhere in America today and you're likely to see kids praying around the flagpole, sharing their faith with classmates, reading scriptures in free time, forming religious clubs, and in other ways bringing God with them through the schoolhouse door each day.
But for many girls around the world, walking through the schoolhouse doors isn't a right or an assumption: it's a victory over conservative fanatics - some of whom carry guns".
As Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a press release last Friday: "Parents and teachers work hard to instill healthy eating habits in our kids, and these efforts should be supported when kids walk through the schoolhouse door".
Anything short of this social compact would represent a step backward in our attempts to provide opportunities for every child who passes through the public schoolhouse doors.
On Monday in a remote east Siberian village, 22 schoolchildren lost their lives as a blaze tore through their wooden schoolhouse.
Mrs. Borntrager, who was born in Hebron, N.D., rode a horse four miles each way to Farmer's Valley, a one-room schoolhouse, through fifth grade.
One recent afternoon, Woolley and Nita Vail — wearing a necklace with the ranch's old VR brand — led visitors past a tiny schoolhouse, through weathered, long-empty corrals and into a hayloft where one Henry Lopez wrote his name in large letters and inscribed the date: Oct. 31, 1896.
Each year during Black History Month, I think about my social studies teacher Miss Rankin, who dragged an entire class of grade school students through worthless work while ignoring the truly important "social studies" going on beyond our schoolhouse walls.
