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Tag: Chrestomathy

The Central Problem With Pragmatism

Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We do not want to live in accordance with the dictates of pragmatism, which can be hung with its own rope. Pragmatism doesn’t work. At the same time, commitment to something more important than immediate success often as the side benefit of immediate success” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 142).

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Our Minds Are Not Shoeboxes

Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We tend to think of our students’ minds as finite shoeboxes, and we then think we must take special care not to put anything in there if we do not want it to remain there for life. But the brain is more like a muscle. A student who learns one language, such as Latin, is …

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Just Microwave It

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The reason mental discipline is difficult is that we live in a fallen world, and God has cursed the ground so that thorns and thistles grow there. Laziness and sin both make people want to coast downhill. Chesterton once said that Satan fell by the force of gravity. We like to relax our Latin standards …

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Good Old Latin

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

“In arguing for a return to the disciplined study of Latin, we do not do so mindlessly, simply because Latin is old. Some things improve with age, like wine, but other things do not, like pizza. I want to argue that Latin is in the former category” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 139).

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History Is A River

Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“In our individualistic times, we tend to think of previous generations or eras as tthough they were a series of ponds. We used to live around a pond that everyone called ‘the fifties.’ Then later we lived aroaund another pond called ‘the nineties.’ But this is not how the Bible encourages us to think about …

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History is Organic

Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We must also recover a doctrine of generations. Our children grow. They do not grow up in a detached way, as though the twig were unrelated to the branch, which in turn is unrelated to the tree. Our children are not interchangeable ball bearings, able to be placed in different machines across the world; they …

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The History of the Church Is the Center of World History

Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“In the providence of God, the kingdom of God was preached in the Greco-Roman world, and Christianity spread, for the most part, north and west. The direction of this movement has changed recently but only in the last century or so. Now the kingdom of God is not to be identified with Western culture, but …

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Keeping An Edge On Our Kitchen Knives

Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“At this point, all Christian educators must know that clear thinking is a moral issue. Blurry thinking is one of the great sins of the age. To teach the dialectical stage without a constant grounding in the ethical absolutes of Scripture is worse than folly. Learning to distinguish rightly, learning to evaluate, is the meaning …

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Canaries and the Canadian Moose

Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“At the same time, we are not required to believe the opposite of whatever any unbeliever discovers. Through common grace, many unbelievers have noticed that the sky is blue and that canaries are yellow. This is fine, and faithfulness does not require any hot denials from us. However, the fact that unbelievers think that the …

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Dullardry, That”s It

Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Polish without substance is sophistry. Substance without polish is . . . well, actually we don’t know what it is because nobody pays attention to it” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 133).

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