The question to ask about an education is not 'What can I do with it?' but rather 'What is it doing to me – as a person?
Arthur F. HolmesLanguage itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a 'footnote' to colonial history about the 'revolt' of the American colonies. Word choice and the organization of material gave the game away.
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés perspective language values word-choice bias
The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical movement much larger than his own kind of church. Catholic and Protestant thought of various sorts, and Eastern Orthodoxy, can all be of help, for they share with him the basics of Biblical theism. The evangelical tends to see himself today standing alone, he supposes that nobody ever faced such issues as he now faces, and he therefore thinks in a vacuum.
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés minority christianity isolationism theism evangelicalism
All truth is God's truth.
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés truth reality god reality-check
Again and again the old groupings of left and right no longer seem helpful. Sloganeering and dogmatizing settle nothing, nor do emotional tirades and protests really help us sort things through in a thoughtful, biblical fashion.
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés propaganda posturing polemics
The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés morality character example
The question to ask about education is not ‘What can I do with it?’ That is the wrong question because it concentrates on instrumental values and reduces everything to a useful art. The right question is rather ‘What can it do to me?
Arthur F. HolmesMots clés education
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