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| Titre : | The Way They Should Go |
| Auteurs : | D. Bruce Lockerbie, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Oxford [GB] : Oxford University Press, 1972 |
| Format : | ix + 174 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | FS/C (Éducation chrétienne : écoles chrétiennes; approche chrétienne de l'école) |
| Résumé : |
"Train up a child in the way he should go," the proverb urges. But today there is a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the "way" secular education has led. The youth of America, "technocracy's children," are rejecting a system which offers them computerized identities and teaching machines; everywhere there are cries for reform.
In the face of this educational crisis, Mr. Lockerbie presents a Christian alternative that looks beyond mere pedagogical reform to the restoration of personal values. Maintaining that meaningful education is best shaped around moral principles, he finds the abandoning of spiritual concerns responsible for much purposelessness in American education. Mr. Lockerbie eloquently prescribes the integration of faith and learning and offers a case in point: the history of The Stony Brook School —a unique fifty-year-old college preparatory school whose motto is "Character before Career." From the time of its first headmaster, Dr. Frank Caebelein—a brilliant author, scholar, mountaineer, concert pianist, administrator and preacher— this small evangelical school on Long Island Sound has attracted exceptional men of rare dedication. Stony Brook's impressive growth, despite financial hardships, is a testimony to the power of Christian commitment. Drawing upon his own fifteen years' teaching experience at Stony Brook, the author provides an engrossing account of recent developments in independent education. The merging of a proud tradition with social awareness has produced new challenges, and Mr. Lockerbie candidly discusses changes in curriculum and in disciplinary measures, the student honor system, open prayer meetings, and most important, the problems involved in enrolling black students, and in becoming co-edu-cational. Measuring current school standards against Christian ideals, Mr. Lockerbie looks into the obligations of religious schools and explores directions toward their fulfillment. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Acknowledgments
- Preface - 1. A Christian Alternative - 2. Beginning the Stony Brook Experiment - 3. The Noblest of Occupations - 4. Days of Testing, Years of Growth - 5. The Ongoing Experiment - 6. Redefining a Christian Community - 7. A Vision of Greatness - A Selected Bibliography |
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