Education
Book Review: The Well-Educated Mind
Last week, I wrote that we should spend more time learning “how to think.” This book helps you to learn “how to think.” So for the curious or the busy – here’s a book review. Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Educated Mind: The Guide to Classical Education You Never Had argues that reading the right kind [...]
Knowledge Nation
My apologies for not posting this morning or last week. I’ve been thinking a lot about canonicity and Christian education in the past two weeks – here’s a side discussion off of what I’ve been reading about. Futurist magazines in the 1950s promised us flying cars and space travel as a commodity. Sixty years later [...]
Three Errors in Establishing Church Ministries
A good friend and mentor taught this personal life lesson to me. NO VISION, NO ABILITY TO EXECUTE “We’ve tried it before.” “That won’t work here.” “I’m too busy.” It can be very disheartening to meet people who have no vision for God’s work and no heart to see it accomplished. The Ephesians were partly [...]
That’s just the end of my introduction…
The first time I had the opportunity to “teach” Bible in a public setting was at the age of fourteen. I had 10 minutes in a children’s Sunday School class to talk about David & Goliath. As a lifelong church attendee, I drew on a wealth of pulpit rhetoric to deliver a passionate talk with [...]
School leavers & formal ministry training
Australia recognises the value of competency and improvement in the workforce. We have regulation and training options for almost every industry application and education itself is a major industry. Our cultural attitude to education has direct application to the systems and processes that we have established for formal instruction in theology. For this post, I [...]
The Essence of Meat
Do you own a stack of books which fall into the category of “purchased with every good intention of reading?” For Christians, this usually occurs after being caught up in the emotion of a powerful, well-delivered quote accompanied by a fervent recommendation. Your pile of books may also include birthday gifts and/or you might be [...]
School Choices: Does Home Schooling Work?
For many parents, home schooling is a desirable alternative to consider, especially when educational choices are limited. Here’s some information that may help. In Australia, it is difficult to determine statistics on home school students and their academic performance, due to the small (and often outdated) amount of research. One 2006 report summarised that: While [...]
School Choices
If you recently finished uni or school, you may not be keen to relive those years! Let’s get on with life, right? But it’s worth looking back sometimes, because your school experience has shaped you as a person. Children spend most of their time involved with school (more than church and even family) during their [...]
