“P.S. I am highly pleased with your Declaration. God preserve the united States. We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?” —John Page to Thomas Jefferson (July 20, 1776) Last week was graduation week!Continue reading “Echoes of Graduation and Coronation”
Author Archives: Dean Forman
Live a Good Life: Lessons From Filoli Gardens
“The sundial’s truth: Time began in a garden and never truly departs.” —Jessica Yaffa Shamash The “L-I” in FILOLI: The Good Life A few weeks ago Linda and I visited Filoli Gardens south of San Francisco. Filoli is a beautiful estate of 23,000 acres on a slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Christened “Filoli” byContinue reading “Live a Good Life: Lessons From Filoli Gardens”
The Transformation is Available to You As Well
The American Classical Leadership Education® employed at John Adams Academies was designed to transform the scholar. The model “liberates the scholar by enabling the scholar to discover truth. The scholar is invited to act on that truth and in the process grows in wisdom. It is by thoroughly engaging in the classics and by theContinue reading “The Transformation is Available to You As Well”
Sturdy Virtue and a Living Faith: Happy Mother’s Day
There are many stories to be told of the love and strength of mothers throughout history. The women of The Mayflower certainly had love for their children or future children in mind when they each made the decision to brave the journey to a new world. The risks were great, but their hopes for theirContinue reading “Sturdy Virtue and a Living Faith: Happy Mother’s Day”
An Education That Has the Power to Transform
As the school year wraps up, many scholars are graduating and moving on to the next stage of their education. It has been my honor to have been led by Providence to create, with Linda, the American Classical Leadership Education® and I am humbled by the impact I have seen it have on our scholars overContinue reading “An Education That Has the Power to Transform”
Sports and Liberties
Have you ever considered the relationship among freedom, family and franks? Our recent visit to New England brought us a few unexpected detours, and one of the best was a last minute decision to sit in with the Sox in famous Fenway Park. Besides the chance for some good old-fashioned leisure, catching a game gaveContinue reading “Sports and Liberties”
What is Man?
Education is the way we discover our virtues, gifts, talents, intellect and excellence. Education informs and animates liberty. In order for America to be a place of natural aristocracy, we must take the time and effort to make those discoveries for ourselves. And the beauty of the world we live in today is that such an education is within the grasp of every person in the world!
The Shot Heard Round the World: Visiting the Birthplace of Our Liberty
These monuments to “the shot heard round the world” ask us an important question today: do we possess the character, courage and understanding of liberty and freedom to merit them and the price it costs to obtain, retain and defend them?
Liberty and Education
What a week we had—from the cradle of liberty and education to the commencement ceremony for my 90-year-old mother who graduated with her degree in professional studies. We spent much of spring break in Boston with part of our family and seven of our grandchildren. I have talked much about how our children’s and grandchildren’sContinue reading “Liberty and Education”
An Invitation to Change the World
A few weeks ago, Linda came home from a used bookstore with a few extraordinary discoveries. It was a set of books called Gateway to the Great Books. You may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with a Revolution in Education and “coming out of the cave?” The letter to the readerContinue reading “An Invitation to Change the World”