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Is Your Training Methodology Oppressive?

November 27, 2010

I first posted this under the title “Back Away from the Banking” almost a year ago (Jan 29th), but given some recent events and discussions it felt like a great time to re-post it now (especially as I’m still adjusting to having an infant again).  I’ll only add one thought – “What good does it [...]

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Abusing Authority in Teaching

January 22, 2010

I was reading an article I found recently called “Temptations Facing the Christian Academic” by Elmer Thiessen in a journal I believe entitled Direction and thought there were several thoughts that are relevant to any of us who are in a position where we are influencing, teaching, or educating others consistently.Here’s a few temptations for [...]

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Streams and Sources

January 19, 2010

Robert Pazmino in Foundational Issues in Christian Education references the following quote attributed to an English woman and Christian educator and education reformer named Charlotte Mason in a book entitled Home School Education (1953). “As a stream can rise no higher than its source, so it is probably that no educational effort can rise above [...]

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