Every parent and teacher wants to give his or her children the best education possible. They hope that the teaching they provide is a joyful adventure, a celebration of life, and preparation for living. But sadly, most education today falls short of this goal.
For the Children’s Sake imagines what education can be based on a Christian understanding of the meaning of life and what it means to be human—a child, a parent, a teacher. The central ideas have been proven over many years and in almost every kind of educational situation, including ideas that author Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and her husband, Ranald, have implemented in their own family and school experience. Includes a foreword by daughter and educator Fiona Fletcher.
208 pages.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Education?
Chapter 2: “Children Are Born Persons”
Chapter 3: Authority and Freedom
Chapter 4: A New Perspective
Chapter 5: Education: A Science of Relationships
Chapter 6: The Way of the Will, Reason, and the Unity of the Whole
Notes
Resource List
About Child Light Limited
Index
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Every parent and teacher wants to give his or her children the best education possible. They hope that the teaching they provide is a joyful adventure, a celebration of life, and preparation for living. But sadly, most education today falls short of this goal.
For the Children’s Sake imagines what education can be based on a Christian understanding of the meaning of life and what it means to be human—a child, a parent, a teacher. The central ideas have been proven over many years and in almost every kind of educational situation, including ideas that author Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and her husband, Ranald, have implemented in their own family and school experience. Includes a foreword by daughter and educator Fiona Fletcher.
208 pages.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Education?
Chapter 2: “Children Are Born Persons”
Chapter 3: Authority and Freedom
Chapter 4: A New Perspective
Chapter 5: Education: A Science of Relationships
Chapter 6: The Way of the Will, Reason, and the Unity of the Whole
Notes
Resource List
About Child Light Limited
Index
