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Tag: Chrestomathy

All Reformers Are In Over Their Heads

Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We are trying to rebuild the ruins of Jerusalem with opponents taunting us about our (admitted!) inabilities in wall-building. They say that if a fox jumps on our wall, that wall will collapse; we wonder sometimes if it wouild take an animal that big” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 235).

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Not Short Heathen

Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But whenever we talk about religious ‘duty,’ we must be careful lest we get tangled up in the law and gospel business. The promise precedes the law, Paul argues, and is the foundation for it. All duty must arise from the gratitude for redemption, and this includes the duty of educating our covenant children. But …

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Content With Our Discontents

Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Our doctrine always comes down to action, and that action reveals our true doctrine. We do not understand the relationship between fear, hunger and love. Our great problem is that we do not want enough from God. Ironically, we content ourselves with our discontents in the wilderness when before us a promised land awaits. Why …

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Love Hungry for Blessing

Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Therefore, to understand the fear of the Lord rightly, learn to see that fear as love hungering for blessing” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 224).

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The Difference Attempts At Application Make

Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Karl Marx was an intellectual who suffered misfortune because people tried to put his ideas into practice. Had Plao suffered the same misfortune, the world would still be talking about that totalitarian hellhole” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 215).

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Can’t Fight Gas With Gas

Posted on Thursday, November 9, 2006Monday, October 7, 2019 by Douglas Wilson

“Pop evangelical sentiments, diffused in their normal gaseous way, are utterly inadequate for resisting the spirit of our age, which wants to seep into the unsuspecting school through every available crack” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 208).

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No Frictionless World

Posted on Wednesday, November 8, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“‘What would you do if everyone let you?’ is actually the same question as ‘what are you actually trying to accomplish?’ But such thought experiments are dangerouis because they require that we postulate a frictionless world, which is not the world we live in. Thus it is all too easy to drift off into utopian …

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Why the Bait Hides the Hook

Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“One proverb expresses the principle well. He who takes the king’s coin becomes the king’s man. If we receive money from the government, we must know that the money comes with conditions. Today the conditions might be tolerable. In fact, they will certainly be tolerable because otherwise the bait would not hide the hook. But …

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When Education is too Narrow

Posted on Monday, November 6, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But the danger is that their education can become little more than reading. When they come to take their SATs, they discover that their verbal scores are stratospheric, and their math scores give the impression that the test was taken by a rock that was having trouble holding the pencil” (The Case for Classical Christian …

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Embodied Education

Posted on Friday, November 3, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But one of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 198).

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