I believe the true aim of education is to order our children's affections. It is to teach our children to love all that is true, good, and beautiful. We can do this simply, effectively, and joyfully each day with these 9 practices...
9 simple, effective, and joyful practices. These 9 practices will help order our children's affections. They will help us teach our children to love the true, good, and beautiful. They will establish an ordered education.
Why Do We Need an Ordered Education?
Our God is a God of order. He created a world that has an inherent and magnificent order. From the changing of the seasons, to the rise and fall of the tides, His order is everywhere and in everything. We must first seek out God's order. Then we must try to align ourselves with His order.
God is the source of all that is true, good, and beautiful. We must teach our children God's truth, beauty, and goodness. This is the purpose of an ordered education.
The “order of love” is the “brief and true definition of virtue”.
~St. Augustine of Hippo
“St. Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind and degree of love which is appropriate to it.”
~C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
~Aristotle
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
~Plato
“The question is not, - how much does the youth know? When he has finished his education- but how much does he care? And about how many orders of things does he care?”
~Charlotte Mason
Our God is a God of order. He created a world that has an inherent and magnificent order. From the changing of the seasons, to the rise and fall of the tides, His order is everywhere and in everything. We must first seek out God's order. Then we must try to align ourselves with His order.
God is the source of all that is true, good, and beautiful. We must teach our children God's truth, beauty, and goodness. This is the purpose of an ordered education.
The “order of love” is the “brief and true definition of virtue”.
~St. Augustine of Hippo
“St. Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind and degree of love which is appropriate to it.”
~C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
~Aristotle
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
~Plato
“The question is not, - how much does the youth know? When he has finished his education- but how much does he care? And about how many orders of things does he care?”
~Charlotte Mason
