I recently featured a conversation between a former Teach For America intern and his mentor, Dave Greene. Today, we have a follow-up post from Mr. Greene, expressing some of the frustration many of us ...

We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that ...

Psychologists and sociologists studied average people to determine how everyday people understand wisdom and uncovered a set of characteristics shared across North America that shape today's ...

Wisdom and character education draw upon enduring philosophical traditions—from Aristotle’s notion of practical wisdom (phronesis) and virtue ethics to Confucian teachings on ren (benevolence) and li ...

What does practical wisdom mean in today’s world? Does the answer rest in your response to certain questions? Are you a practical person? Or, do you consider yourself a wise person? If you answered ...

Professor Coleen Vogel at the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand co-authored an internationally collaborative piece, with scientists proposing the adoption of practical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This virtue helps you figure out when and how to apply the other virtues in real, varying situations. Cavan Images/Cavan via Getty ...

This post was written by Barry Schwartz and Ken Sharpe, as will all subsequent posts on this blog. We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't ...