Educating vs. Schooling
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
The rising generation is our most educated generation if you compare the number of millennials who completed bachelor's degrees with that of previous generations. However, as British commentator Peter Hitchens recently pointed out, being "schooled" isn't the same as being "educated."
What he said about British schools could be applied to many U.S. ones: "Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons."
When students are indoctrinated in critical theories regarding gender and race, when pushback is considered "harassment" or "racism," and when the main point is to sexualize kids, it's not education. As Steven Garber has written, "Education, always and everywhere, is about the deepest questions of life and the world." Education wrestles with the hard questions, training students to think critically and creatively.
Christians have always championed education. We can today too.
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| 0:00.0 | With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with |
| 0:04.0 | The Point. The Rising Generation is our most educated generation if you compare the number |
| 0:08.3 | of millennials who've completed bachelor's degrees with that of previous generations. |
| 0:12.3 | However, as British commentator Peter Hitchens recently said, being schooled is not the same |
| 0:16.7 | as being educated. What he said about British schools could also be applied to U.S. schools. |
| 0:20.7 | Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. If you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly anymore, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organizations, this is one of the main reasons. When students are indoctrinated and critical theories regarding gender and race, when pushbacks considered harassment and racism, when the the main point is to sexualize children, |
| 0:38.9 | that's not education. Steve Garber put it, education always and everywhere is about the deepest |
| 0:43.6 | questions of life in the world. Education wrestles with hard questions, training students to think |
| 0:48.0 | critically and creatively. Christians have always championed this kind of education. We should |
| 0:52.6 | today as well. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point. |
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