The Heights Forum
The Heights Forum
Partners in Formation
The Heights Forum is the outreach branch of The Heights School. Our mission is to support educational leaders, teachers, and parents in their own efforts to educate the children entrusted to them.
Dangerously Good: Raising Magnanimous Sons
On April 13, The Heights welcomed eighty-five fathers to campus for its second annual Fatherhood Conference. Building on the success of last spring’s Fatherhood Conference, which focused on the power and importance of paternal presence, the theme for this year’s conference was the virtue of magnanimity. Featuring a blend of lectures and breakout discussions, this event also welcomed a long-time friend of the school, Fr. Carter Griffin, Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington. Following Mass and breakfast, Fr. Griffin opened the day with a lecture titled “Magnanimity...
Dr. Kevin Majeres on Anxious Generation and Bad Therapy
Featuring Kevin Majeres
In this episode Dr. Kevin Majeres offers his thoughts on two recent books: Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, and Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier.
June 13-14, 2024
Mentoring Workshop
The Heights School • Potomac, MD
A conference for men in education interested in personalizing education
Terrible Purpose: Beauty and Contradiction at the Heart of Dune
By Joe Breslin
In Dune, Part One and Part Two, Denis Villeneuve has adapted the unadaptable. These two impressive films, though they simplify and sometimes alter their source material, manage to distill the heart and soul of Frank Herbert’s original novel (1965). Given the influence of the ideas embodied in the text and now popularized in the films, it seems a good moment to appraise these adaptations, and to reflect on the ideas they promote. Like the films, this essay is divided into two parts, the first being a traditional film review (of...
Intellectual Virtue and Personal Sovereignty
By Michael Moynihan
In an essay titled “Elementary Studies” in the book The Idea of a University, St. John Henry Newman narrates a fictional account of a weak student, identified by the generic name of Mr. Brown, who flounders on an oral entrance examination. Newman mentions that the underlying reason for his “inaccuracy of mind” was a “mental restlessness and curiosity.” The boy had read many books, books by authors such as Virgil, Cicero, and Xenophon that are considered classic works. But he read them in a disordered way, thinking “that the gratification...