Students were tutored, not forced to fit pre-built molds. Individuality was cherished, not viewed with fear. Teachers and students alike were on a quest for learning. This helped us understand the source of the problem. Modern culture, influenced by naturalism and its assertion that man has no soul, views man as an animal subject to heredity and environment.
Naturalism views education as training or conditioning.
This thinking even influenced Christian educators in the modern era, who all too often have treated their students like computers made out of meat. Then we became excited about a different model of education in Oxford University, a truly Christian school for most of its history. We learned that its approach to education had genuinely stimulated the thinking skills of many of our favorite writers, such as C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers. Having rejected the fashionable, but silly notion that new is better, we were able to look to the past without a modern bias. The Recovery of the Lost Tools of Learning Providing this kind of education to others became my goal.