Christian education faces a welcomed opportunity. Develop- ments in fields as varied as physics, anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, literature and education have alerted us to the fact that people learn in an astonishing variety of ways.
Human intelligence is active in many varied dimensions.
Emphasis has usually been placed on rational, analytical, objective approaches to the gaining of knowledge. Now a fresh wind is blowing. It becomes apparent to observers in a variety of disciplines that human learning is wonderfully complex. We are exploring how rational knowledge functions in concert with the rich variety of human qualities, including creative, imaginative, and intuitive capacities for understanding the world. Both of these developments are good news for Christian education.