Educating Royalty | by Dr. Roy Atwood
We must teach our children to be Kingdom heirs—not just laborers in the marketplace “Who are you?” a university student once asked me. Odd question, I thought. I’d handled countless student questions, but this one caught me unprepared. “Uh . . . I’m a professor,” I answered weakly. “No!” he shot back. “I don’t mean what do you do, but who are you?” His question unsettled me. Like most North Americans, I’d been carefully, though not intentionally, catechized since a lad at my parents’ side that the first and most important question we ask adults at first meeting (after getting … Continue Reading “Educating Royalty | by Dr. Roy Atwood”
The Goal of Education: Peripheral Vision
Dr. Roy Atwood, in an article called Recovering Peripheral Vision, speaks first of the failure of the current academia of this age as they seek practical jobs and vocational training while mocking the “useless” liberal arts. He then talks about the real goal of education, which is to see both broadly (or peripherally) and how one thing connects to another. It turns out that these are the skills we end up actually using, even if usefulness was not the point! Dr. Roy Atwood is one of the founders of New Saint Andrews College and served as its President from 2004-2014. He currently serves as … Continue Reading “The Goal of Education: Peripheral Vision”