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What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society.

What's the point of school? Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian idea of what a school is for to mold the populace to serve the state seems unacceptable today. In vogue, instead, are slogans like acquiring marketable skills and realizing your full potential. These ideas powerfully shape our culture. Ultimately, they boil down to pursuing one supreme value: individual success in a competitive world.

Schools are a mirror of our society as a whole; what we want for schools makes plain what and whom we value in our common life. In the Christian tradition, the life of discipleship is also a school. In this educational community, under the instruction of our one Teacher, we learn not to seek empowerment, but to find strength in weakness; not to out-achieve others, but to serve

Plough Quarterly No. 19 School for Life

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    A Paperback / softback by Eugene Vodolazkin, Karen Swallow Prior, Christian Wiman

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780874863277, 978-0874863277
      ISBN10: 874863279

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society.

      What's the point of school? Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian idea of what a school is for to mold the populace to serve the state seems unacceptable today. In vogue, instead, are slogans like acquiring marketable skills and realizing your full potential. These ideas powerfully shape our culture. Ultimately, they boil down to pursuing one supreme value: individual success in a competitive world.

      Schools are a mirror of our society as a whole; what we want for schools makes plain what and whom we value in our common life. In the Christian tradition, the life of discipleship is also a school. In this educational community, under the instruction of our one Teacher, we learn not to seek empowerment, but to find strength in weakness; not to out-achieve others, but to serve

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