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    Plough Quarterly No. 42: Educating Humans

    Winter 2025

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    Editorial

    Educating for Freedom Has our society lost sight of how to raise young humans?

    Essays

    Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company. Why We’re Failing to Pass on Christianity How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it? Should I Read Scary Fairy Tales to My Child? My kids already know the world is not safe. Will dragons and goblins make it worse? Iron Sharpens Iron Real friendship is the most powerful education.

    Personal History

    Why I Became a Firefighter A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.

    Reading

    Reverence for the Child Four thinkers prepare us to come into the presence of children.

    Comic

    Felix Manz: The Making of a Young Radical In a city astir with dangerous new ideas, the son of a priest becomes a leader of a nonviolent revolution.

    Forum

    Readers Respond Readers respond to Plough’s Autumn 2024 issue, Freedom.

    Doers

    Deerassic Park A high-school science teacher and his students practice conservation in the woods and ponds of upstate New York. Lernvergnügenstag: A Day for the Joy of Learning Once a year, I get to teach my students whatever inspires me. The Most Valuable Joads Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath inspires a small-engines project in the English classroom. Timber Framing with Teenagers Why a history teacher believes in training students to use hand tools.

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    Educating Humans

    About This Issue

    How do we educate children to be thoughtful, compassionate, well-rounded humans? Education has become too narrowly focused on academic success and future earning potential. But creative schools and individual teachers are finding ways, new and old, to reverse this trend. From kindergarten to university, writers in this issue of Plough step back to look at education as the holistic task of forming healthy, responsible, passionate humans, and share success stories from the front lines.