Christian education Quote by Douglas Wilson

“The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.” quote by Douglas Wilson — Download Open image

““The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.””

Douglas Wilson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings)

More by Douglas Wilson

“The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian schools falls out of the picture. Of course arithmetic must be taught in a…

Douglas Wilson

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Douglas Wilson

Image

“You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.”

Douglas Wilson

Image

“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the fabric of the story, and as this happens, the reader is woven in, right alongside the description. In giving advice to writers, E. L. Doctorow once said that good writing should communicate more than the mere fact…

Douglas Wilson

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

Douglas Wilson

Image

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Douglas Wilson

Image

“We were in desperate straits. Christ came to “ransom captive Israel” and to “disperse the gloomy clouds of night.” In our insolence, we were…

Douglas Wilson

Image

“This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are still figuring things out, and stories are one of the central realities that can help them. Chesterton says somewhere that stories about dragons and knights do not teach children to fear dragons. They had dragons under the bed…

Douglas Wilson

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

Douglas Wilson

Image

“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our…

Douglas Wilson

Image

“We sometimes do not appreciate the magnitude of the problem here. How could the eternal Word of the eternal Father take on limits? How…

Douglas Wilson

Image

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Douglas Wilson

Image

Explore all 154 Douglas Wilson quotes

More Christian education quotes

“Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone’s essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be…

Rick Horne

Image

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing…

Peter Marshall

Image

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at…

T. S. Eliot

Image

“When we downshift Christian education from the paradigm of expertise to a paradigm of love, we do not dilute the importance of rigorous theological…

Kenda Creasy Dean

Image

“2:20 are from the New International Version. All other Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The selection from the poem “Tourist or Pilgrim” by Macrina Wiederkehr is used…

Sharon Garlough Brown

“There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about…

Richard Mitchell

“2. Christian education places its emphasis on “unity” in relationships between people.”

James C. Dobson

Image

I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to…

Catherine Deneuve

Image

“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.”

Kevin Roose

Image

It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they…

Charles Hodge

Image

“The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I…

Robert Desnos

Image

“Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness…

Hughes Oliphant Old

Image

Browse all 30 Christian education quotes

Christian education Quote by Douglas Wilson

Related quotes

More by Douglas Wilson

More Christian education quotes