Education

Curiosity Did Not Kill the Cat

Steve Nelson | January 31, 2025

  “Curiosity killed the cat.” Among the world’s most foolish aphorisms, this one stands out. It is quite likely that the lack of curiosity is more likely a fatal condition for cats . . .

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What to do when the world is crumbling

Caleb Dunson | January 17, 2025

[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice” that

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Health & Well-Being: Reframing the Anxiety Conversation

Elaine Griffin | January 10, 2025

  [Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice”

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“No Excuse, Sir”

Alden S Blodget | December 27, 2024

This is an address presented to high school students and their parents and teachers.   Each time I conduct one of these awards ceremonies, I spend some time thinking about what it is that separates

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Failing focus

Claudia Flynn | December 20, 2024

  [Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice”

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The Hollowdays

Brent Kaneft | December 13, 2024

    “We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw.” – T.S. Eliot (“The Hollow Men,” 1925) It is already Christmas at Starbucks. They

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Pathologizing men is unproductive. We should invest in better men-focused spaces.

Nicholas Manetas | December 6, 2024

  In her Oct. 22 op-ed, Julianna Lee ’25 argued that male-only spaces could better Princeton’s campus by building “encouragement, empowerment, and friendship for men.” Columnist Ava Johnson ’27 responded on Nov. 4, contending that male-only spaces fail

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Banning books is detrimental to intellectual growth

Gisele Bisch | November 29, 2024

  [Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice”

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Learning and the Brain: Bid the geldings be fruitful?

Brent Kaneft | November 15, 2024

  “And all the time – such is the tragicomedy of our situation – we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across

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