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 advocates often argue that good schools enable us to compete globally; in his day, Benjamin Franklin also thought that education … Read More →
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Do we need a Christian university?
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 need are Pluralist Spaces which promotes healthy scholarly activity, informed and critical of it’s pre-theoretical origins. Such a Space would … Read More →
![[View of a Pine Crest School student reading in the library Fort Lauderdale, Florida]](http://www.kevinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/pr21787-188x188.jpg "[View of a Pine Crest School student reading in the library Fort Lauderdale, Florida]")
Schools as “Faithful Institutions”?
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 Pine Crest School student reading in the library Fort Lauderdale, Florida]
On Aspects
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 up, sustain a bridge. So, what is an Aspect? Andrew Basden writes that Dooyeweerd never really gave a definition, rather … Read More →
On the Structure of the Family
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 any educational entity not family-based, is non-normative. In contrast, some School advocates argue that the School is a product of … Read More →
Toward a Theory of the Structure of Educational Entities
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? Are Educational Entities, the organizations we create to facilitate educational practices, a unique entity? Or are Educational Entities a part, … Read More →
“On Teaching”
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 the most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to … Read More →
Schools Logically Qualified
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 word ‘Learning’ does not appear in his index, and ‘Education’ only three times, all within the context of his discussion … Read More →