Toward a Theory of the Structure of Educational Entities

NY School c 1910

How do we conceive of Educational Entities? When is an entity a School, a College, or a University, and not a business or a charity? …

Faulkner on Formal Education

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Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive Here you can listen in on William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences at the University of Virginia in 1957 and …

On Civic Education

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I have not yet read Os Guinness’ The Case for Civility. However, some statements given in an interview with  byFaith Magazine are worthy of consideration: …

Schools Logically Qualified

The Teacher

As Basden notes, Dooyeweerd did not elaborate much on learning and education. One problem is that Dooyeweerd himself did not seem to discuss learning. The …

Fit for a Republic: Education as Domestication

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Public Schools are quintessentially American. Attending public school is probably the most important common experience undergone by people all over our diverse country. Today education …

Do we need a Christian university?

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This question does haunt me. But it does beg the question: What is a Christian University? I think the best answer may be: What we …

Schools as “Faithful Institutions”?

[View of a Pine Crest School student reading in the library Fort Lauderdale, Florida]

Read Jonathon Chaplin’s Loving Faithful Institutions: Building Blocks of a Just Global Society and then help think with me about Schools. Photo: [View of a …

On Aspects

Wheeling Suspension Bridge by Damon Green / © Some rights reserved.

When I think about Aspects one of the things I typically visualize is a suspension bridge, that is: intersecting strands working together to make, hold …

On the Structure of the Family

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Many Home-Based Education advocates argue that Educational activity of minor children is properly and uniquely located in the family.  They thus imply that School, or …

“On Teaching”

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It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one must know is …

Bickering Phrases

B McClain, listening to the radio

This is beautiful. But at the same time is symbolic of everything that is wrong with American politics today. While one voice is angry and …