If you could only read one author every day for the rest of your life, who would it be? I’d say Dostoevsky or Tolkien. But then my son was like, ‘No dad, this one too!’ and he’s right: Calvin and Hobbes. We read it almost every single day. What is one trend from your teenage...
With a striped button down and tucked sleeves, he enters the classroom. “Hello.” He takes his reading glasses from his shirt pocket and begins the class, as he does every class, with a poem: She was young; / I kissed with my eyes / closed and opened / them on her wrinkles. / ’Come,’ said...
The downfall of education did not begin with the iPhone or the television; it began with the invention of writing. While that statement may be a bit dramatic, it’s true that for the majority of Western civilization, memorizing poetry, among other forms of rhetoric, was a critical component of a young scholar’s education. Today, such...
Some families pass down recipes, holiday traditions, or photo albums. Others pass down their alma mater. Many families at Hillsdale have seen two, three, or even four generations walk its halls. Sophomore Megan Mayernik is a second-generation student studying math. Her mother, Linda Mayernik, graduated in 1993 with a degree in biology and a minor...
Rarely does one become famous by spending his time alone. Bud Sellars was the exception. After he moved to Hillsdale in 1880, Albert “Bud” Sellars became a fixture of the Hillsdale community. He was well known for living in a cottage on Lake Baw Beese’s Cedar Island, and because of this, he earned the title...