Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs

“Great leaders are great listeners. Great leaders take feedback.” This might be true, but the sort of leader who posts this sentiment on LinkedIn is not a great leader and is only interested in pleasant, positive, encouraging, tone-sensitive, demure, flattering feedback. I know this because I checked.

I used to obsess over taking perfect pictures for Facebook.

A school has material needs and it has spiritual needs, and “admin brain” is what happens when the two aren’t rightly divided.  Let me explain.  Administrators are chiefly responsible for the material operation of a school. They must ensure that payroll is met. They must ensure that an adult is present wherever large groups ofContinue reading “Classical Christian Education Has A Box-Checking Problem”

There are schools with sucky teacher appreciation weeks, sucky compensation packages for teachers, sucky assemblies, sucky house programs, and sucky faculty development programs that only exist because of accreditation requirements–where students will still get a sermon from the principal that goes, “I feel like you’re only interested in doing the bare minimum here. You checkedContinue reading “Classical Christian Irony”

Every time I go to a wine bar, I hope they’re playing something like this.

These are the results of the “Worldview Checkup,” which you can take here. The results are free and immediate, in case you are impatient.

Fourteen theses to rescue wonder from the zeitgeist. 1. To discuss a thing, contemplate a thing, or enjoy a thing—either by tasting, hearing, or seeing—is not necessarily to wonder at that thing. This is true even when the thing being discussed or enjoyed is very good. Very few acts of thought or perception constitute wonder.  Continue reading “Create Wonder. Cultivate Wonder. Induce Wonder. Offer Wonder. Commodify Wonder. Market Wonder. Cash In On Wonder.”

This thing was probably made with shade grown organic aluminum that will slowly turn blue over the next thousand years.