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We need intimate knowledge of the past

Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past.   . . .   [W]e cannot study the future, and . . . need...

posted on: Sep 1, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Every education teaches a worldview

The modern world has committed itself to two totally different and inconsistent conceptions about education.  It is...

posted on: Aug 30, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

The goal of learning

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that...

posted on: Aug 26, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

The foremost reading for everybody should be Holy ...

Above all, the foremost reading for everybody, both in the universities and in the schools, should be Holy...

posted on: Aug 25, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

No generation can bequeath what it has not got

No generation can bequeath to its successor what it has not got.  You may frame the syllabus as you please.  But when...

posted on: Aug 24, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Without education we are in danger of taking educa...

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. The latest fads of...

posted on: Aug 20, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Lay Christ in the bottom.

Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well [that] the main end of his life and...

posted on: Aug 19, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Perfect means and confused goals

We live in a day of perfect means and confused goals. –Albert Einstein.

posted on: Aug 19, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Christianity is an education itself.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ...

posted on: Aug 18, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

No truth, but still confident.

It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be...

No truth, but still confident.
posted on: Aug 17, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

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