For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School

by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, Fiona Fletcher (Foreword by)

Overview

Written for teachers and parents in homeschool, public school, or private school settings, For the Children’s Sake imagines what education can be, based on a Christian understanding of the meaning of life and what it means to be human.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433580000
Publisher:	Crossway
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	424,027
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Schaeffer Macaulay grew up in Switzerland at L’Abri Fellowship, which was founded by her parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer. She and her husband, Ranald Macaulay, established and led the L’Abri branch in England for several years. She is the author of For the Family’s Sake and contributed to Books Children Love and When Children Love to Learn.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Acknowledgments 13

Introduction 15

1 What Is Education? 17

2 "Children Are Born Persons" 27

3 Authority and Freedom 61

4 A New Perspective 81

5 Education: A Science of Relationships 117

6 The Way of the Will, Reason, and the Unity of the Whole 181

Notes 193

Resource List 197

About Child Light Limited 199

Index 201