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: I’m curious, how would you evaluate Christians’ involvement in American public education? I think Christians are careless about public education … Read More →
Category Archives: Education
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 →
Fit for a Republic: Education as Domestication
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 →
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]
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 →
City Journal on Freire
Sol Stern at City Journal fingers Paulo Freire as the source of much of what ails today’s teacher education: Pedagogy of the Oppressor. Is education neutral? Christian educators agree with Freire and say no, however, they reject the notion that all teacher-directed education is indoctrination, … Read More →
Bauman on the Moral Encounter
Zygmunt Bauman’s collection of essays, Life in Fragments, is a description of the fragmentary nature of postmodern life. The fragmentation of the postmodern life manifests itself in two different ways of Being, each a encounter with the Other in which Ethics takes precedence over the … Read More →
Faulkner on Formal Education
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 1958, during his two terms as UVA’s first Writer-in-Residence. Hear Faulkner talk about the value of Formal Education on the … Read More →