Gender, Equality and Education from International and Comparative Perspectives Book

Brief and beneficial booklet. Basic point:

The classical and Christian approach to education is about equipping children for the future with what has been successful in the past. (2)

Hits the Trivium, references Sayers, advocates Latin, and addresses the myth of neutrality. As an example of the latter:

Many educators and parents act as though schools can teach a kind of vanilla education and then parents can pour on values and even sprinkle on God a s topping if they so choose. ... [V]anilla education is not only undesirable, it's simply impossible. Someone's values get through-one way or the other. It is simply educationally unavoidable that world and life view values are communicated, both in what is stated and what is implied. (8)

Strawbridge gives the "nutshell":

the trivium provides the tools of learning, Scripture and the classics furnish the core content, and Biblical truth is the fixed point of reference. The trivium is the hammer, the classics are the wood, and the Bible is the ruler. (10))