I recently reviewed On Education, for Ad Fontes, A Journal of Protestant Letters.
On Education documents Abraham Kuyper’s involvement with the Netherlands’ seventy-year political battle over parents’ rights to choose schools representative of their religious convictions.
On Education is more than just a helpful resource; it is a uniquely prescient guide for everyone concerned with the education crisis plaguing twenty-first century North America. Kuyper’s application of Christian principles to education in his situation continues to offer valuable principles for modern educators who are facing our own unique situation.
In both situations, we Christian educators strive from the belief that there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: “Mine!”
[…] almost-thought comes to mind here. Abraham Kuyper’s work in education is a model worthy of study in our present “school choice” […]