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Apesar de este já ser um assunto até certo ponto batido entre nós — graças, em parte, ao princípio de declínio da hegemonia esquerdista nas pr Com muita competência e erudição, Rushdoony mapeia todo o problema com a educação estatal até a sua raiz numa linguagem simples, objetiva due east acessível. Ele chega a dizer, a certa altura do livro, que a resistência de alguns estudantes à educação contemporânea é um indicativo de saúde mental e cultural. Se isto já era verdade na década de sixty, que dirá hoje?
Apesar de este já ser um assunto até certo ponto batido entre nós — graças, em parte, ao princípio de declínio da hegemonia esquerdista nas prateleiras de nossas livrarias —, o livro continua atual e necessário, tendo em vista que ainda são poucas equally publicações em português que se propõem a tratar do tema a partir de um ponto de vista cristão reformado.
No entanto, é um livro que exige maturidade da parte de quem lê, especialmente no que tange a certas soluções propostas pelo autor. É preciso situar a obra em seu contexto histórico antes de sair por aí defendendo a extinção disto due east daquilo outro. O fato de Blitz, por exemplo, incluir a Escola Dominical vigente em sua época na lista de escolas a serem extintas não significa que devemos juntar todas no mesmo pacote. Enfim, é preciso acautelar-se das utopias, não importa de que lado do espectro político venham — se do esquerdo, se do direito. ...more
"Intellectual Schizophrenia" deals with first matters, outset with a brief history of public teaching in America. He writes that education became the "cure-all" for social problems during the Enlightenment, and remains and so today.
This is Rushdoony'south foundational volume for agreement didactics. Readers will find it much easier, and much more than engaging than "The Messianic Character of American Educational activity." Though that is a fine work, information technology is a slow and hard read, though frequently brilliant."Intellectual Schizophrenia" deals with first matters, beginning with a brief history of public education in America. He writes that education became the "cure-all" for social problems during the Enlightenment, and remains and so today. This messianic concept is irreconcilable to the Calvinistic view of education. Thus, at the outset, the believer and unbeliever are at odds over the teleology, or purpose, of education.
Modernistic education has become statist past necessity, since in the Enlightenment view, there is no ultimate authority. The state becomes that say-so and thus the individual is subsumed under the country, and personal liberty is consequently subordinated to the land, or polity.
The Vantillian antithesis and then central to Rushdoony's philosophy is established early. He writes:
"Long before Salary, man set himself a imitation ideal for knowledge. Man'south original sin involved the postulate of an ultimate epistemological and metaphysical pluralism which gave equal ultimacy to the mind of man and of God, besides as to time and eternity. Hence, at that place was no eternal decree, and only time could be the examination of anything, together with experimentation and exhaustive knowledge. In terms of this, true knowledge became either illusory or at very best—tentative." p. 19
This pagan agreement of noesis has crept into the church and pervaded all levels of order. This rejection of God is a turning toward expiry. p. 27-28
This then becomes the centre of Rushdoony's thesis:
"In every area we accept what can only be characterized as intellectual schizophrenia, a split personality. On the i hand mod human being, 'Christian' and non-Christian, in dealing with the applied necessities of any particular expanse of scientific discipline or of learning, must be theistic, must assume the ontological trinity, in that he must posit an eternal prescript, a unity in life and learning and a correspondence to ultimate reality of numbers, etc. Permit him hold to as radical a relativism every bit he may, he nevertheless acts in terms of an eternal prescript.
As a event, he is caught in the tension of intellectual schizophrenia and is a divided person, a business firm divided against itself. The growing tension of modern life is due precisely to this schizophrenic chemical element in all learning. The more relevant scientific discipline and learning become to everyday life, the more irrelevant they get in theory. Man is schizoid in his attempt to function apart from God, to apply the things of this creation while denying their creator and the eternal decree behind all reality. Homo apart from God is guilty of what Van Til calls the Cainitic wish, the desire that there exist no God, but whenever and wherever man tries to eliminate God, he ends up past eliminating all reality." p. 30-31
It is simply the consistent, epistemologically self-concious Christian that "can teach in the confidence that at that place is a unity of learning in his school in that the ontological trinity is the presupposition of all factuality, and that all facts are created facts and hence God-given and consistent facts. He can avoid thereby the intellectual schizophrenia of our age, for himself and his students." p. 36
This is actually the purpose of Christian didactics--"to declare that no fact is a fact apart from the ontological trinity, that all facts are personal facts precisely because they take been created by a personal God who alone is the true source of their interpretation, and that, because the whole created universe came into beingness by the act of that ane God, whose eternal prescript undergirds all reality, learning is not illusory and all learning has a key unity." p. 39-forty
Once he has established his thesis, he goes on to critique the government schools. Rushdoony'due south criticism is thorough and admittedly devastating. Information technology is worth quoting at length to give the total context. Public educators beware, this quote will induce either amens, or anger:
"Educationally, the kid considered in terms of needs must be given automatic promotions to prevent any sense of inferiority, frustration or maladjustment. Socially, the same child must exist guaranteed cradle to grave security lest a psychic trauma be produced. The cure for failure to learn is to devaluate learning, and the cure for social failure is to devaluate success. Inevitably, the only teachers who succeed in terms of such schools are those who share in the basic bounds, or supinely let their propagation with the result that, despite the academic degrees, the teachers are less and less teachers and more and more propagandists of the statist creed. Their obvious inferiority has been substantially demonstrated by the army'due south draft deferment testing program, which reveals that not only are prospective teachers the lowest in intelligence and ability of any group, and by a substantial margin, merely that those who are headed for school administration are a radically inferior group. Every bit Whyte comments, on analyzing the figures, 'It is at present well evident that a large proportion of the younger people who will ane twenty-four hour period be in charge of our secondary-school organization are precisely those with the least aptitude for didactics of all Americans attending college.' Educators are unwilling to admit these facts, and, when forced to, plead that low pay drives away the better prospects. Merely the falsity of this claim is credible when it is realized that the same applies to systems with high pay, and the fact that administrators, commonly well paid, correspond the lowest calibre of all. Coin then is not the consequence, because at to the lowest degree assistants would draw men of intellectual ability and aptitude. The fact is that statist educational activity, resting as it does on a philosophy repugnant to complimentary and responsible men, does non and cannot draw a loftier level of men. Christian schools, often paying less, are nonetheless able to depict dedicated men and culturally literate men, this in spite of handicaps a young and developing concept in education faces." p. 78-79
He is unwilling to give Christians a laissez passer on the status quo and requires their action--they "must attack the central statist concept." He equates the disestablishment of country churches with the eventual disestablishment of country schools. I thought this was one of the most brilliant insights of the volume, that in the former age, "The cause of religion then required compulsion, fifty-fifty as the crusade of pedagogy now requires compulsion, even every bit the cause of didactics at present requires compulsion and the state."
This secular age, and "To this culture, compulsory land faith seems radically incorrect, but not a compulsory state education. But between the two no existent difference exists; both require the compulsive ability of the country for whatever the culture deems necessary. Compulsion in faith was in an earlier era a social necessity, even as it now is in education." p. 118-119
Rushdoony so comes to a positive view of education--the Christian view. Just even hither, he spends more time arguing what Christian education must not be. He warns that "The instruction of the Bible in the Christian school every bit its basic religious and cultural premise, tin be wholly or partially neutralized if sure non-biblical presuppositions govern the teaching." He also writes at length warning confronting moralism.
"For Scripture, the godly human being is the saved human being, not the self-consciously practiced human being. It is not a dissimilarity between moral and immoral just between godly and ungodly, holy and wicked, and the moral man, as witness the Pharisees, can epitomize ungodliness. Yet the moralistic construction creeps into Christian thinking." p. 82
Equally he'southward written elsewhere, in his "Institutes of Biblical Police force," I believe, he uses the example of Rahab in warning against moralism. Though I don't entirely agree with his caption, it is a powerful argument. p. 83-84
He warns against projecting "modern secularism onto the Bible." It is not a normal view of life, and is irreconcilable with the Bible. p. 85 If God is not God, homo is non homo, and all becomes "relativity." Instead, "The Bible must be taught in terms of its claimed ramifications, which are far-reaching. The law, for example, is item and principal." p. 86
This is another great section of the book, as he uses Deut. 25:fourteen and "the muzzling of the ox" equally an instance of how biblical law must exist understood. p. 86
He brings this together toward the stop, arguing that the statist nature of public pedagogy is mystical--requiring the private's mystical spousal relationship with the whole--mass human. For that is what pedagogy is for in the Enlightenment view--the integration of the 1 into the many. This explains the establishment of the public school, every bit the church building was state-established in the previous age. This explains why at that place is such opposition today to homeschooling and public pedagogy. It is a religious concept, which is why two years later on Rushdoony published "The Messianic Grapheme of American Education."
Like all of his works, the book is uneven. There are portions that are boring, but there are pages and pages of brilliance and piercing insight that well-nigh authors could simply dream of themselves. There is and then much in this book that I didn't even mention that are worth writing nigh, just read the book for yourself, you won't regret it.
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The main point seems to be that public instruction is attempting to practice on a ba
R.J. Rushdoony writings always seem to present outside-the-mainstream means of looking at the topics he deals with. His volume on philosophy that I read recently, The One and the Many took a creative wait at the way Trinitarianism provides a view that balances individualism and an Eastern pantheistic view of reality. In this book, Rushdoony takes on modern American didactics, especially public education, in the early 1960s.The main point seems to exist that public teaching is attempting to do on a basis of atheism or at best religious indifference, what only tin can exist done with an understanding provided by a theistic worldview. He writes, "... zilch is understandable except in terms of Christ... All secular learning is involved in a fundamental contradiction: information technology must act on the supposition of a unity of law and pregnant while denying the very existence of information technology or its implications." The schizophrenia he speaks of refers to the attempt to value truth without a philosophical construct that gives meaning to the facts being taught.
Since the traditional sort of instruction which aimed non only at grooming in job skills, but in helping individuals become who they were intended to be as bearers of the image and likeness of God cannot be achieved without a theistic world view, an alternate ultimate goal has taken over education: the creating of model citizens who adapt to the majority views of the culture. The land has an obvious stake in this, and thus it takes on this role of workout students in the values currently in vogue. The indoctrination in climatic change hysteria is a clear example that came to my mind. Nosotros see it fifty-fifty more than recently in the try to replace traditional concepts of gender and sex or fifty-fifty regarding race with what the elites promise to print on the upcoming generation. Rushdoony saw these trends and warned against them by promoting the idea of the Christian school as an alternative to public education.
And by Christian school he did not mean schools run by churches. He meant schools formed past free association of Christian parents who wished to provide educational activity based on true Christian principles, non just imitations of public schools with added classes in religion and morals. Information technology was not to be just more public school teaching, it was to exist fundamentally different from it.
Rushdoony'south Christian Reformed views sometimes struck me as farthermost. His view of what the church is and how it should engage with the wider culture was not what I believe to exist the full truth. He complains about the way the Roman Catholic Church building ruled all of Western society in a monolithic style, and uses this every bit an illustration to the state'southward rule over all society today, simply at the same time states, "Christians tin be satisfied with nothing less than a Christian organization of society." He seems to exist all for pluralism when it provides benefit to the church building, but opposed to it otherwise. It seems to me that's a bit of schizophrenia of his ain.
But there are some really expert points that he makes. Here's an example of something he quotes from the American Quango on Pedagogy: "To call supernaturalism a religion and naturalism a philosophy and on that basis to exclude the ane and embrace the other is, we call up, a form of self-deception." His conclusion goes beyond pointing out this problem with public teaching to really pointing to "the ane answer non faced... the abolition of the public schoolhouse system."
He as well takes aim at moralism, the instruction of ethics apart from an understanding that children are in need of regeneration, not only in need of behaviour modification. He goes then far every bit to country that the Sunday school, with its emphasis on teaching virtue apart from evangelization, is an evil at odds with what the Gospel teaches. He wants Sun schools eliminated for that reason! It sounds farthermost, but I think he is making a very solid indicate with how religion is taught to youth.
Rushdoony is good to read considering he ever looks at things from a perspective new to me. And though there are things virtually which I strongly disagree, the exposure to his thoughts expands my understanding and broadens my horizons.
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published in 1961, the Christian homeschool motility was years away and even Christian day schools were inappreciably considered a feasible educational alternative. But this book and the authors later on work "Messianic Graphic symbol of
American Education" were a resolute telephone call to artillery for Christians to get their children out of the pagan public schools and provide them with a 18-carat Christian didactics.
Dr. Rushdoony had predicted that the humanist system, based o
"When this brilliant and prophetic book was firstpublished in 1961, the Christian homeschool motility was years away and even Christian mean solar day schools were hardly considered a viable educational alternative. Merely this book and the authors later work "Messianic Character of
American Education" were a resolute telephone call to artillery for Christians to get their children out of the pagan public schools and provide them with a genuine Christian teaching.
Dr. Rushdoony had predicted that the humanist system, based on anti-Christian premises of the Enlightenment, could simply become worse. He knew that education divorced from God and from all transcendental standards would produce the educational disaster and moral atrocity we have today. The title of this book is peculiarly significant in that Dr. Rushdoony was able to identify the basic contradiction that pervades a secular society that rejects Gods sovereignty but still needs law and order, justice, science, and significant to life. As Dr. Rushdoony writes, "there is no law, no society, no justice, no structure, no design, no meaning autonomously from God." And so, modern human has get schizophrenic considering of his rebellion against God."
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Today's society is indeed schizophrenic, and Rushdoony describes how our statist instruction encourages more atomization of the individual, dependence on the country, and destruction of the family. Adept book, even if the Puritan/Calvinist perspective was sometimes hard to swallow.
Fantabulous work on the influence of EducationToday'south society is indeed schizophrenic, and Rushdoony describes how our statist education encourages more atomization of the individual, dependence on the state, and devastation of the family. Good volume, fifty-fifty if the Puritan/Calvinist perspective was sometimes hard to eat.
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