On the new Core Virtues website, we have continued the tradition of maintaining a blog dedicated to teaching teachers, parents, and school leaders about virtue and how great stories cultivate the moral imagination. Most recently, we have added a beautiful post from a 5th-grade teacher about the virtues found in the classic The Wind in the Willows. Her blog post helps us fall in love with the timeless story and the dear friends and lessons within it all over again. Read More
If you are seeking past blog posts, please click “Our Approach > Telling Our Stories > Blog Archive”.
Hero of the Month
Head to our “Heroes-Lives to Learn From” tab to browse our selection of excellent men and women whose words and deeds portrayed a deep commitment to the virtues.
May Hope & Joy, Imagination, & Wonder
"Little Women" from Boys and Girls of Bookland by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1923)
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson
"The world is but a canvas to our imagination." Henry David Thoreau
"Wonder is the desire for knowledge." St. Thomas Aquinas
To keep up to date on Core Virtues and the work Hillsdale College is doing to continue the good purposes of the program, head to corevirtues.hillsdale.edu.
We are honored to partner with the friends of Core Virtues to promote the cultivation of virtue through great stories.
Please note, we will phase out corevirtues.net in June 2026, but much of the content will live on at our new website.
