“The obvious difficulty that has prevented the study of European culture becoming a part of the regular curriculum of studies is its vastness and its complexity. The great advantage of classical education was the fact that it involved the study… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our civilization have… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Democracy bases its appeal on the sacredness of the People – the consecration of Folk; socialism on the sacredness of Labor – the consecration… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure of civilized… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“The great fault of modern democracy -- a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist -- is that it accepts economic… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.” — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
