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This classic work on education sets forth the unique and challenging idea that “the work of education and the work of redemption are one.” The ultimate goal of all learning should be to understand more about our Creator-Redeemer and to reflect that understanding in our personal lives. In her writings on this subject, Ellen White was concerned, not with details of curriculum or educational systems, but with great, guiding principles. The result is a penetrating look … More >>
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#1 by Sean Wilson on May 6, 2010 - 11:50 am
As the head teacher of a school for ADD/ADHD boys this book has served as the most valuable tool that I currently use. Many of our boys have been labeled ADD but in reality have never been made to persevere through challenges, or have never been made to complete a task with diligence. This book not only discusses practical ways to help all students of education, but it discusses the guiding principles behind all true education. America will never find the solution to its problems with education as long as its view of education is limited only to an intellectual study of science, math, verbal skills, and reasoning skills. As quoted in EDUACTION pg. 13, “Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range…It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. IT is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers.”
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Stephen Denny on May 6, 2010 - 2:28 pm
The book Education broadened my vision of what true education is really about.
This book has been in my library for years – from when I was a student in high school. Later when I had children, it became yet more important to me in developing guiding principles for their educational process.
I have found that I use Education as the standard to keep from wandering off track with trendy theories, or to lose sight of what true education is meant to be.
For parents, for expecting parents, for teachers and educators, for home schoolers – don’t miss reading this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on May 6, 2010 - 2:45 pm
This is the book to read if you want a broad, Bible-based view of education. For example, the first paragraph reads:
“Our ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come. “
There is much in this book for everyone who would like to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Rating: 5 / 5