A few weeks ago we published an animated version of Elizabeth Youman’s post, What Difference Do Words Make? Dr. Youmans also wrote Whoever Controls the Language Controls the Culture, a sobering call to consider the power of language in the lives of nations and communities. Click the video below to
A call to build education around God’s Word, Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘It means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’” (Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll) One of the distinctives
This week’s whiteboard animation video features our good friend, Dr. Elizabeth Youmans, who has contributed so powerfully to the practice of education. This is the first of a three-part video version of her paper, “The Role of Language in Building a Christian Nation.” Click the image below to go to
Language is God’s gift to humans “No single book has so profoundly affected universal expression as has the English Bible.” (The Bible in English Literature, Edgar Whitaker Work, 1917.) Language did not evolve! Man did not crawl on all fours grunting like an animal for millions of years before he
Wars are won and lost by words “Whoever controls the language, controls the culture.” (Dennis Peacocke) “So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country.” (John
Teaching only happens in a relationship of trust Recently, Darrow led a group of thought leaders in a discussion prompted by the wide interest in School vs. Education. The group talked about producing a book treating education from a biblical worldview. One of those leaders was our friend, Dr. Elizabeth
The first sphere of government in colonial America was the home. Home is where the foundation of character is laid and where self-government should first be learned and practiced. Man’s capacity to govern himself is in direct proportion to his relationship with Jesus Christ and obedience to His Word. Childhood
Colonial preachers such as George Whitefield energized the American Revolution From the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, public schools as we know them today were virtually nonexistent. Parents, pastors, and tutors taught the rising generation how to read, write, and cipher and how to think and reason using the Bible as
The Holy Family with Angels, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1646 All the great Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century—Luther, Calvin, Knox, Zwingli, Sturm, Farel, Beza, and Melanchthon—were aggressive education champions committed to Bible-centered Christian instruction and discipleship. They understood that long-term church reform required educational reform at all levels. Given their
Christ-centered education is sorely needed today “Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well the maine end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life (Joh.17.3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation
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