Thursday, November 5, 2015

Education Teaches Values

At times a debate has raged about whether education should be concerned with values.  It is an idiot debate in that form, on a hopelessly archaic question.  As well ask whether religion should deb concerned with the problem of the Godhead.  Every actor in the educational drama -- teacher, student, family, administrator, media, peer group -- is up to its neck in values.  Like it or not, education is values drenched.


Max Lerner, cited by Earl J. McGrath in "Relating Faith and Learning," Private Higher Education: The Job Ahead, vol.12, American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, 1983, pg. 25.  Referenced by Robertson McQuilkin in An Introduction to Biblical Ethics, pg.489

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