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

by Susan S. Macaulay

Overview

All of us, parents and teachers, want to give our children the best education possible. We hope the education we provide is a joyful adventure, a celebration of life, and preparation for living. Most education today, however, falls short of this goal.

For the Children's Sake explains what education can be, based on a Christian understanding of what it means to be human-to be a child, a parent, a teacher-and of the meaning of life. The central ideas have been proven over many years and in almost every kind of educational situation, including ideas that Susan and Ranald Macaulay have implemented in their own family and school experience.

Easy to read and filled with practical suggestions, this book will show parents and teachers in any educational setting-homeschooling, public school, or private school-how to extend learning to every aspect of life, instilling in children a new richness, stability, and joy for living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891072904
Publisher:	Crossway Books
Publication date:	09/28/1984
Series:	Child-Life Book Series
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.51(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 also the author of For the Family's Sake and contributed to Books Children Love and When Children Love to Learn.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 What Is Education? 3

2 "Children Are Born Persons" 12

3 Authority and Freedom 42

4 A New Perspective 59

5 Education: A Science of Relationships 91

6 The Way of the Will, Reason, and the Unity of the Whole 148

Appendix: Parental Liberty in Education 159

Notes 162

Bibliography 164

About the Child-Light Foundation 166