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...
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 Scripture
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...
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. ...
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,...
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...
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. Share and...
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. ...
Lord’s Day prayer
LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had...
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....
Self-willed is weak-willed
Have you ever wondered why we call someone who is self-willed “strong-willed”? Shouldn’t it be the...
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...
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...
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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