Indian scholar, author, and speaker, Vishal Mangalwadi is one of DNA’s Idea Shapers. With his permission we are reprinting here a recent message he sent to his mailing list. One hundred years ago, Rabindra Nath Tagore became the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poems,
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Years ago my son brought home a note from school informing us that his teacher would be doing a unit on sex education. So I met with the teacher. Among other concerns, I wanted to know what values guided her approach to the subject. Her answer was meant to reassure
School vs. education. Do you know the difference? Many young people who are thinking about college need to understand the difference between school vs. education. Many parents need to consider whether their childrens’ schooling is getting in the way of their education. Because your schooling can actually interfere with your
Parents remain the vital link to child’s development, as I was reminded when I watched a recent documentary, “Undivided.” The picture told the story of a relationship between a local church and a public school in Portland, Oregon. Southlake Church initially connected with a struggling public school, Roosevelt High, and its
Dualism, not atheism, may be the bigger threat to Christian students in the public school classroom. Many people seem to think that, while instruction based in any organized religion is unacceptable indoctrination, the precepts of materialist atheism (the worldview of choice in most public-school classrooms) are evenhanded, clinical, non-partisan facts.
This is post 3 of 5 in the series “Harvard's erosion” VERITAS – The Puritan Pursuit of Truth The Atheists Who Honored the Bible The HARVARD WALL that Exposes the Modernist Rewrite of History SEMINARY: Education or Religious Schooling? part 1 No More Puritans at Harvard? By Ingfbruno – Own
The goal of the Puritan vision for education was the practice of right living. Noah Webster (1758-1843), the father of American scholarship and education, was in the line of the Puritans and their radical Pilgrim cousins. He was a descendent of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony and America’s first
Education in the West has suffered from the influence of atheism. The rise of atheism brought the death of absolute truth and morality in the West. Without an infinite and transcendent reference point, individuals became the center of the universe. Moral and metaphysical relativism form the framework for one’s life
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “Harvard's erosion” VERITAS – The Puritan Pursuit of Truth The Atheists Who Honored the Bible The HARVARD WALL that Exposes the Modernist Rewrite of History SEMINARY: Education or Religious Schooling? part 1 No More Puritans at Harvard? The Puritans, preserving the
The quest for better education in the West would be greatly enhanced by a curriculum from the Puritans. I recently became aware of a missing ingredient in the contemporary discussion of the health and development of nations. I speak of the concept of a unified field of knowledge that accurately encompasses
