“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument of tyranny which has yet been devised.” SchoolEducationChristianityLiberalism Author:John Gresham Machen
“A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.” DifferentSeemsSchoolChristianPurposeGirlBoysTeacherExampleTruth IsMathematicsConvictionSpheresCurriculumChristian Education Book:What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses Source: What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses
“The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.” ImportantSchoolChristianFamilyInstitutionsCeaseTheologianPulpitChristian FamilyModern FamilyReligious EducationChristian Education Author:John Gresham Machen
“A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)” IfsMeanAgeSchoolDesirePerfectModernMiddleAchievementMethodInstrumentsTyrannyProvidingPublic SchoolMiddle AgesFreedom Of ThoughtInquisitionSchool SystemModern TimesFree Education Book:Christianity and Liberalism Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.” YearsMindChildrenStatesSchoolHumanityForceParentDifficultLibertyHigherFilledConvictionDespiteIntimateExpertsAspirationMaterialismCrushedRemnantsFormative Years Book:Christianity and Liberalism Source: Christianity and Liberalism
