In fact, one study has found that Christian schools are a moderating force on religious sectarianism, since the schools must attract
students from other churches, and parents from different churches come into close contact through involvement in a common school.
Not exact matches
The
Church, teacher of humanity, never tires of exhorting people, especially the young of whom you are a part, to remain watchful and not to fear choosing «alternative» paths which only Christ can indicate... Jesus calls all his friends to live in sobriety and solidarity, to create sincere and disinterested emotional relationships with
others...
From you, dear young
students, he asks for honest commitment to study, cultivating a mature sense of responsibility and a shared interest in the common good.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say,
church history, or biblical studies) but not in
others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for
students, or only for
students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that
other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming
from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
When the Academy of Geneva, the forerunner of the University of Geneva, was created to train learned citizens and leaders for Reformed
churches, by intention most of the
students were
from other countries.
Doubtless participation in
church work by
students of theology has educational value, since devoted and intelligent men are bound to learn
from experience, especially if they can compare it with that of
others.
Trying to put their fingers on how the school makes
students so enthusiastic about learning, visitors
from other schools have mused that the small size, rural setting (New Orleans is 30 minutes away but worlds removed), or old - fashioned
church values
students absorb at home might be responsible.
These existing resources can include teachers,
students, or community members
from other countries (or who have family in
other nations), businesses that work with overseas partners, or cultural organizations (such as
churches or nonprofit organizations) that have an international component.
my sisters and I began demanding change and forcing it upon them when necessary... We were tired of a van service that only took
students to a Catholic
Church when none of us were Catholic, we demanded that they invite Nikki Giovanni as a guest speaker (and they did), we researched and slowly changed the face of some of the «required events», we invited teen black boys
from Hartford to spend the day on campus (this made many nervous, including the security guards who would grow frustrated with their inability to curtail this), we grew tired of the school dances that invited
other boarding schools and included a DJ that played
other music so we invited kids
from Hartford, including a DJ and began hosting our own parties... I never forgot who I was and the rich history of my ancestors...... I am thankful for my varying educational experiences for they have shaped the educator that I have become.
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