Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundation of someone's worldview (teacher's, curriculum writer's). Education deals with fundamental questions that require religious answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions.
A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work.
Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience.
ISBN-10: 0891075836
ISBN-13: 9780891075837
Pages/Media: 224
Dimensions: 5.5x8.5
Publ.Date:224
Author: Douglas Wilson
Edition:
Format: Paperback
Language: English
