File Under: Go ahead and ask me why I hate public schools;
Any time you hear the term “education reform,” it’s critical to recognize that a system built on a faulty foundation can’t be reformed. It can only be demolished and replaced with a legitimate and worthy alternative.
This is from the founder of modern public education:
“There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.”
John Dewey
“The father of modern education”
Teacher Magazine
1.) It is Dewey’s religion that is serving as the prop for the above statement.
2.) If you will have no props of traditional religion you will have the props of non-traditional religion. (Though Dewey’s Humanism might well be easily considered a “traditional religion.”)
3.) Dewey talks about “dogma and creed being excluded,” and yet this Dewey’s desire for dogma and creed being excluded is built on Dewey’s own dogma and creed.
4.) Is it an immutable truth here from Dewey that immutable truth is dead and buried?
5.) Is Dewey giving us a fixed natural law when he insists that there is no fixed natural law?
6.) Is Dewey’s statement above regarding no permanent moral absolute itself a permanent moral absolute? Is it a permanent moral absolute that there is no such a thing as permanent moral absolutes?
By all that is righteous all Christ haters are profoundly stupid … without exception.
Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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