Symposium on Education (JCR Vol. 4 No. 1)

by Dorothy L. Sayers, William N. Blake, R. J. Rushdoony, Gary North (Editor), T. Robert Ingram

Overview

By every known academic measurement, government-subsidized, secular, compulsory education is a massive failure and getting worse. Yet the American public continues to believe that government-financed education is moral,useful, and basically a great economic bargain.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160941868
Publisher:	Chalcedon Foundation
Publication date:	01/28/2022
Series:	Journal of Christian Reconstruction , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	493 KB

About the Author

William Blake, PhD, is a real estate salesman in northern Virginia.
Samuel Blumenfeld is the author of several books on education.
Edward C. Facey, PhD, teaches economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan.
Charles Grant is pastor of the Grace Bible Church and principal of Grace Church Academy in Sterling, Virginia.
A. A. Hodge was a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary until his death in 1887.
Kirk House is vice principal of Grace Church Academy in Sterling, Virginia.
T. Robert Ingram, BD, is pastor of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, and the founder of the St. Thomas School. He is the author of The World Under God’s Law.
J. Gresham Machen was the founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929 and a leader in the conservative opposition to the drift into theological liberalism within the churches of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote many books, including Christianity and Liberalism. He died in 1937.
Henry Manne is the director of the Law and Economics program of the University of Miami Law School. He is the author of Insider Trading and the Stock Market. He was the cohost of a twenty-part television series produced by FNBC in Los Angeles and seen throughout the nation: “America the Supermarket.”
Zach Montgomery served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the late nineteenth century.
Gary North, PhD, is the editor of The Journal of Christian Reconstruction and the president of the Institute for Christian Economics. His latest book is How You Can Profit from the Coming Price Controls.
Tommy Rogers, PhD, is a refugee from the academic world (sociology) and a practicing lawyer in Jackson, Mississippi. With a little more practice, he says, he is going to get the hang of it.
Rousas J. Rushdoony, MA, BD, is president of Chalcedon. His latest book is Revolt Against Maturity: The Biblical Psychology of Man.
Dorothy Sayers was most famous for her many mystery books, but she was an accomplished classical scholar in England. Her essay on education, “The Lost Tools of Learning,” has been reprinted in several formats.
T. Van Der Kooy was a school teacher and leader in the Christian school movement in the Netherlands in the 1920s.

Date of Birth:

June 13, 1893

Date of Death:

December 17, 1957

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1915; M.A., B.C.L., 1920