Education

“We need the humanities today to remind us how to be fully human as God designed us, to exercise the gifts God has given us, and to love our neighbor.” - TGC

“It’s tempting to either give up and stop resisting or veer into full-blown panic about the academic outcomes we’re seeing in many American schools. How are we supposed to prepare our children for a tech-infused future we can’t comprehend? Do we resign ourselves to a post-literate, post-numerate future where machines do all our thinking?” - CToday

“My own children are in seventh and ninth grade now, and they’ve never experienced a single day of school without working on a screen. Yes, even in kindergarten. Yes, even before they could read.” - Gleanings

“Only a familiarity with books of all sorts enables students to pick up on the clues about what an author is doing and how he’s doing it. They need to read—a lot. To foster biblical literacy, we need to foster literacy in general.” - TGC

“An analysis of the 2022-2023 Cooperative Election Study, surveying nearly 85,000 Americans, found a positive correlation between education and weekly religious attendance. The rate of attendance rises from 23% among high school graduates to 30% for those with graduate degrees.” - Unherd

“I tell my students the brain is a lot like a muscle: It takes genuine hard work to see gains. Without challenging that muscle, it won’t grow bigger.” - The Conversation

“A recent study reported in Newsweek found that one in four Gen Z college graduates regret attending university — all the trouble, all the expense, all the debt.” - CPost

“David Hein’s Teaching the Virtues…. is intended as a primer for parents and teachers at these private schools and approaches its topic not as a treatise on either virtue or teaching but as one on teaching virtue, an impulse not without ambition, for philosophers have long wondered whether virtue can be taught.” - Acton

“The most common reason given by parents of homeschooled children is concern about the school environment – such as safety, drugs or negative peer pressure (83% of parents of homeschooled children cite this as a reason).” - Pew

“Some things are nearly impossible to explain, but easy to demonstrate. In these cases, learners require observation and mimicry more than well-articulated explanations of reality.” - Common Good