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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Perfect means and confused goals
We live in a day of perfect means and confused goals. –Albert Einstein.
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. ...
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...
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...
Enduring truths and passing errors
Teach, to the young, men’s enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors....