Large Language Models have made it more difficult to teach teenagers to write. The challenge presents us with an opportunity to develop a deeper, more resilient, classical pedagogy of writing. I’ll argue that writing is a craft, centered around the cultivation of our thoughts and words. The practical upshot of this is that to teach writing well, we need to apprentice our students.

Patrick Grafton-Cardwell is an Orthodox Christian, a husband, a father of three young girls, a high school teacher of rhetoric, and a dabbler in all things humanities. He has a PhD in philosophy with a specialization in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Patrick teaches at Regents School of Austin.