Category Archives: Education

Overt Hostility toward Homeschoolers

Posted on March 13, 2008 by wayne

Al Mohler reflects on secular liberal animosity toward homeschooling in California: Overt Hostility toward Homeschoolers

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Wilson on Recovering The Lost Tools of Education

Posted on February 7, 2008 by wayne

In this “older” book, published in 1991, Douglas Wilson writes thoughtfully on the topic of Christian education. Education is an important and sometimes emotive topic. Wilson’s big argument is that the responsibility of educating children is with parents. Not that … Continue reading →

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Why we are all becoming ‘Latin lovers’ [!]

Posted on November 20, 2007 by wayne

Harry Mount author of “Amo, Amas, Amat And All That – How To Become A Latin Lover” writes in the Daily Mail: Why we are all becoming ‘Latin lovers’ | the Daily Mail As last week’s Ofsted report showed, more … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Sayers on Education

Posted on October 31, 2007 by wayne

A fascinating essay on education: Dorothy Sayers, “The Lost Tools of Learning”. “Modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one’s conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as he goes along; mediaveal … Continue reading →

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We cannot go back in time

Posted on October 29, 2007 by wayne

Often in the discussion of Christian ethics in the public sphere you hear the catch-cry, “we can’t go back to X“, where X is the Reformation, the first century, the 19th century and so on. People normally say this for … Continue reading →

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