“Education reform cannot occur apart from a love of particular things — children, towns, books, subjects, music, and on and on, to the end of one’s life and into the next. Why? God has given us salvation through Christ, who took on His incarnate form during the reign of Caesar Augustus. He grew up in …
Yet Another Reason to Be Concerned About Global Warming
“But not all languages are equally musical. The musical-poetical language Rousseau discusses arose in the south, where the bountifulness of the climate made survival relatively easy. As a result, southern languages express the yearnings of the ‘heart,’ specifically the longing for romantic attachment to a person of the opposite sex” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: …
Superficial Education Reform
“Consequently, many Christians involved in modern Christian education need to adopt a more comprehensive vision for education. A Christian education is not a process that dabbles around the edges or tires to improve something in need of radical reformation through a simple rearrangement. We may have seen a stsudent who has a basic problem — …
A Significant Omission
“It is not much of an exaggeration to say that music, as an issue of political consequence, vanishes in the political philosophy of early modernity. The intellectual architects of modern liberalism do not acknowledge the public significance of music’s power over the soul” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Dallas: Spence Publishing, …
Five Yards of Charm
“For example, some readers might be wondering if a worldview can have a number assigned to it. Isn’t this a bit like saying a student has ten pounds of poetic ability or five yards of charm?” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).
Turn It Up
“The later critics of modernity, Rousseau and Nietzsche, accepting the priority of passion but also seeing a need to reinvigorate it, resurrect the power of music, aiming to use it to inflame the passions and silence reason in the service of a new, more noble politics” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics …
Some Gets In
“Since we are not withdrawing to the wilderness to establish Hermitage Christian School, we must continue to deal with the world around us as we seek to establish biblical education. And because the world around us resembles a particularly persistent and thick fog, some of it gets in” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. …
Are Rock and Blues Cousins?
“Thus, despite rock’s claim to have arisen from the blues, its character differs decisively from that of the older and, to Pattison’s mind, less vulgar genre. While rock deals with may of the same themes as the blues, sex and alcohol prominent among them, it approaches them with a ‘passionate intensity’ that naturally follows from …
There We Are
“It would be nice indeed if worldview problems could be solved by just crossing the street and opening up a new school, one that is all fresh and clean. But the difficulty is that we track stuff in with us. Wherever we go, there we are” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).
Whole Lotta Shaking Goin” On
“Critic and defender, liberal and conservative, all utterly fail to grasp, first, the natural power of music itself—that is, music without words—to move the soul and , second, music’s consequent ability to aid or impede not only our question for a decent social order but also our striving for the goods in which we find …