Antonin Scalia was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions that bore directly upon fundamental elements of the American educational system. He was also a scholar-educator, and leading public figure. It is appropriate, then, to honor this man with a collection of reflections on his impact on education—seen broadly as not just schools but scholarship and public discourse as well. In doing so, we shall discover that the education window allows for a direct look into fundamentals of the justice’s thinking. Few doubt Scalia’s impact on constitutional jurisprudence. “Justice Antonin Scalia changed . . . the way that the Constitution and laws are interpreted,” says one biographer.1 “He was not only one of the most important Justices in the nation’s history; he was also among the best,” says Harvard scholar Cass Sunstein. “Part of his greatness consisted in his abiding commitments—above all to the rule of law.”2 Justice Elena Kagan agrees: “His articulation of textualist and originalist principles, communicated in that distinctive, splendid prose, transformed our legal culture.