Know-it-all agnostics
Speaking of Darwin, Marx, and Freud, G.K. Chesterton quipped: It is yet another mark of this sort of agnostic that he...
Tossing out Darwin, Marx, and Freud
As noted in a previous post, Chesterton said our real task today is uneducating the educated. We could make a good...
Uneducating the educated
[Our primary public duty] is not to educate the uneducated but to uneducate the educated. G.K. Chesterton, The...
Unenthusiastic educators
It is rare to come across anyone enthusiastic for our system of elementary instruction. It is not common to find...
Dealing with nonsense
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when...
The parent, the person in charge of education
In the case of comparative poverty, which is the common lot of mankind, we come back to a general parental...
Properly conducted, a person’s education mak...
In Milton’s view, education is not what people so often reduce it to — completing a certain number of...
The school is only preparation for the home
Just now there is a tendency to forget that the school is only a preparation for the home, and not the home a mere...
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...
Every education teaches a worldview
The modern world has committed itself to two totally different and inconsistent conceptions about education. It is...
About the proprietor
Christian, husband, father, pastor, grandfather (How'd that happen?), adjunct professor, sometime composer, former lawyer, former military, former Floridian turned Idahoan, former basketballer turned golfer—that about sums it up. —Alan Burrow
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