Order is the least photogenic of virtues, yet the first of a journey. Augustine called it peace; the science of routines proves him right. What the virtue of order entails, and how it is cultivated.

A tennis coach opens the university course. Science qualifies his thesis: practice matters less than you think, and guidance, much more. What is trained and with whom.

Bolívar defended his reading list by letter and bequeathed two books to a university. Bello inaugurated that of Chile, declaring that all truths touch. Independence was also a library.

Spanish is on the verge of 636 million speakers, and its canon was written on both sides of the Atlantic. Sor Juana, Bello, Darío, the Boom: this celebration, which no single name can fully capture, is celebrated through reading.

In 1945, Harvard published the Red Book to answer a question that had been open since 1919: what should every graduate know, in addition to their profession? A century of core curriculum, from Columbia to Purdue.

We all remember a teacher who changed our lives. Gallup measured how many had one: 14%. A tribute to educators on both shores and a question for the university.

A teacher before a philosopher, Gregorio Luri maintains that attention can be educated, that judgment requires humility, and that the bow must not always be kept under tension. A profile of the journey's foremost ally.

Everyone repeats that skills expire in five years. We went looking for the source, and it does not exist. What does endure, however, is the standard: why the university should be a community and not an event.

The printing press created the polymath; the factory buried them. Now, AI once again makes knowledge cheap, and what remains scarce is discernment. The polymath returns.

For decades, well-being rebounded with youth. The largest study on human flourishing says this is no longer the case. What it measures, what it found, and what a university can do.

Ninety percent of vice-rectors believe that humanistic education is crucial. Only thirty-two percent believe that their students understand its purpose. What bridges this gap.

MIT measured what happens in the brain when writing with AI: 83% could not quote a single sentence from their own essay. Why judgment cannot be delegated and what universities should demand.