True education begins in the fear of the Lord and ends in wisdom. Amongst other things, the fear of the Lord is the reminder that He is God and we are not. God knows all things and we do not. God is wise, virtuous, and full of joy and too often we are not. This is not discouraging if we realize that education is moving toward being like God. While we will never be all knowing, we can know more.... Read more
She was intelligent, capable, beautiful and born into a position to use all her great gifts. She was murdered by being thrown into a mine shaft, her body damaged by grenades, and left to die of exposure. It was a long way down to the bottom of that shaft for a princess. She got there by doing the right thing and she is proof, if Jesus Himself were not proof enough, that winning in Christ’s kingdom is not always winning... Read more
Losing is easier than winning. If you win, then you have the responsibility to govern. Whenever I hear that we should forgo “worldly politics” I wonder what such people would have advised young Helen to do. What if you become convinced that Jesus is Lord and are the wife of one emperor and the mother of another? Should you resign? What if the Empire is killing Christians? Should you try to save their lives? If you do, then have you... Read more
She was very young, not at all powerful, but she refused to bend to power and so became very powerful. She was blinded by a tyrant’s strengthless presumption. Lucy was strong, because she was humble. No Christian would ever side with the proud over the humble, because our Lord showed us that the proud can never defeat the humble. That may frustrate Ayn Rand, but it is a fact of the moral universe. When might faces humility, the meek... Read more
We need more mothers in education for one simple reason: Education is for people and not programs. In the next few weeks, millions of students will go to college and school in the United States of America. The very best schools will center on people serving people. Education only needs a great teacher and a willing student . . . everything else is support. That’s why no school should be centered on administrators, empire building, the multiplication of degrees and debt,... Read more
We had a cat named Solomon, who could open doors and play pool in the middle of the night, but most amazingly this creature of tiny brain could sense when I was writing a paper without saving early and often and may, perhaps, have known when my writing was particularly bad. Once when finishing a paper due the next day, I looked over and saw him staring at me. He was smiling his cat smile and then he leaped into... Read more
When I was a little boy, Mom would read books to me. Even when I learned to read, the sound of her voice was better and so she kept reading to the family until I left home. After she read, she would talk with us about what we had heard and ask us questions and so during the reading we would wonder about the book. Mom helped us see that a book was not just a static text, but an interaction... Read more
Brunhilde Pomsel worked for a man who was very nice in the office. If you heard him speak, however, he would act as if he were angry and bad. You had to know him to see what a clean, upstanding man he really was. There were two of him: the man with the manicured hands and the man who played a part in order to do good for his people. His manicured hands helped kill millions of people and bring... Read more
Suppose you have the choice of the lunatic John C. Fremont, the pro-slavery incompetent James Buchanan, and Millard Fillmore running on the nativist Know Nothing Party. Generally, Christian ethics would say: “Do not vote for the person who has disqualified themselves.” There are many reasons for this position. Perhaps, the best is that if you vote for a bad man, then you have done an evil and the best you can hope is that good will come of it. There... Read more
Discussions: You have to have them, but you ought to do them well and not badly. Sadly, almost nobody teaches you how to do it and one bad discussion class at some point in school can make you avoid them for the rest of your natural life. You know the bad discussion well: one person talks and nobody else does or the teacher asks leading questions and gives a lecture with periodic interruptions or everyone sits and stares in uncomfortable silence.... Read more
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