I'm good at saying 3/4 of what I had in mind ...another aspect of his moral-spiritual concern about education is that something that God created - knowledge and human capability to learn - was/is corrupted or truncated into something far less than what God intended. If he didn't say it somewhere explicitly - very possible, from what little I've read - he definitely would have agreed with the idea that evil, or much of it, was something good distorted.
Augustine's Confessions is written in a manner - it's like a public prayer of confession to God - that some readers, even Christian readers, might find trying. I'm finding it interesting, though, and insightful regarding human nature. I don't anticipate making a habit, though, of frequent blog posts about Augustine.
Just a short quote ... we imagine Maria Montessori or John Holt to have been education pioneers?
... free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.
Augustine's Confessions is written in a manner - it's like a public prayer of confession to God - that some readers, even Christian readers, might find trying. I'm finding it interesting, though, and insightful regarding human nature. I don't anticipate making a habit, though, of frequent blog posts about Augustine.
Just a short quote ... we imagine Maria Montessori or John Holt to have been education pioneers?
... free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.
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