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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 Scripture

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

Lord’s Day prayer.

Great and mighty King, we come as your servants, and we praise you.  We come into your house, and we magnify you. ...

posted on: Aug 22, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Confession for Lord’s Day worship

All: Heavenly Father, thank you that we belong not to ourselves, but to You, for Christ has bought us at a price,...

posted on: Aug 21, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Without education we are in danger of taking educated people seriously.

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. Share and...

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

Lord’s Day prayer

LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.  Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had...

posted on: Aug 15, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

One thing never taught in public schools

The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole...

One thing never taught in public schools
posted on: Aug 14, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Enduring truths and passing errors

Teach, to the young, men’s enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors....

posted on: Aug 13, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Self-willed is weak-willed

Have you ever wondered why we call someone who is self-willed “strong-willed”? Shouldn’t it be the...

posted on: Aug 10, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

All of life is sacred

Not only my spiritual life, but even my civil life in the world, all the life I live, is by the faith of the Son of...

posted on: Aug 8, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Pride, Self, and Hell

Pride is the bond between Satan and sinners. It is the in by which he so easily manipulates us. (Lk 23.12.) Pride is...

posted on: Aug 5, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

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