Passing the Torch
Subtitle: An Apology for Classical Christian Education
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2025
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781514011300
Copyright date: 2025
Subjects: Theology, practical
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction : The nature of man; title: Part 1 : The nature of education.; title: 1. Liberal arts versus vocational; title: 2. Canonical versus ideological; title: 3. Books versus textbooks; title: 4. History versus social studies; title: 5. Humanities versus social sciences; title: 6. Goodness, truth, and beauty versus relativism; title: 7. Virtues versus values; title: Part 2 : The nature of the debate.; title: 8. Plato's Republic : the educational journey of the philosopher-king; title: 9. Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana : learning to think rightly; title: 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile : the pedagogical implications of denying original sin; title: 11. John Dewey's Democracy and Education : the birth of progressive-pragmatic education; title: 12. C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man : building students' chests; title: 13. Dorothy Sayers and Charlotte Mason : how best to train the young; title: 14. Mortimer Adler, E. D. Hirsch, and Neil Postman : how to educate Americans; title: Conclusion : From a philosophy of life to a theory of education; title: Bibliographical essay