“In spite of this, there is no doubt that the modern European and American system of universal education suffered from serious defects. In the first place, the achievement of universality was purchased by the substitution of quantitative for qualitative standards.… — 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
