Education and Reality

In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl R. Trueman writes,

“We all live in a world in which it is increasingly easy to imagine that reality is something we can manipulate according to our own wills and desires, and not something that we necessarily need to conform ourselves to or passively accept.”

The former is the doctrine of Disney. Nietzsche disguised as likeable, trusted cartoon characters has long been the modern child’s teacher, delighting, instructing, and moving them to follow their hearts and create their own realities.

One of the premier tasks of the Classical Christian educator is to help students (and their parents) recognize the delusion of the “Disney worldview” and by equally delightful instruction, move them absolutely and undeniably toward acceptance of and conformation to reality as it really is, as it has been created and revealed to us by God.

A technical glitch may have caused you to miss yesterday’s, On Teaching, “Classical Recitations.”