No Place Like Home by Leon J. Podles

No Place Like Home

A Personal Look at the Education of Children: Public, Private & Domestic

by Leon J. Podles

While few of us greatly enjoyed the school classroom, most of us accept it as something that our children will have to experience and no doubt be the better for it....

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Leon J. Podles holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, has worked as a teacher and a federal investigator, and is president of the Crossland Foundation. He is the author of The Church Impotent (Spence), Sacrilege (Crossland Press), and Losing the Good Portion: Why Men Are Alienated from Christianity (St. Augustine Press). Dr. Podles and his wife have six children and live in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.

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