Papers Presented at and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Lutheran Educational ConferenceNational Lutheran Educational Conference., 1919 |
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Page 8 - ... that all parents and masters do duly endeavor either by their own ability and labor, or by improving such schoolmasters or other helps and means as the plantation doth afford, or the family may conveniently provide, that all their children and apprentices, as they grow capable, may, through God's blessing, attain at least so much as to be able duly to read the Scriptures and other good and profitable printed books in the English tongue, being their native language, and in some competent measure...
Page 8 - ... much neglecte'd duty in their education while they are young and capable of learning — It is ordered that the. deputies for the particular court in each plantation within this jurisdiction for the time being: or where there are no such deputies, the constable, or other officer or officers in public trust, shall from time to time, have a vigilant eye over their brethren and...
Page 9 - Education is the eternal process of superior adjustment of the physically and mentally developed, free, conscious, human being to God, as manifested in the intellectual, emotional, and volitional environment of man.
Page 8 - ... within the limits of the said plantation, that all parents and masters, do duly endeavor, either by their own ability and labor or by improving such schoolmaster or other helps and means as the plantation doth afford, or the family may conveniently provide, that all their children and apprentices as they grow capable, may through God's blessing, attain at least so much as to be able...
Page 8 - ... fundamental articles of their religious creed, that the Bible was the only authoritative expression of the divine will, and that every man was able to judge for himself in its interpretation, made schools necessary to bring all persons ' to a knowledge of the Scriptures,' and an understanding ' of the main grounds and principles of the Christian religion necessary to salvation.
Page 9 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 60 - America, and the merger of the General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod in the South into the United Lutheran Church in America.
Page 9 - Yet the religious element may not be permitted to pass wholly out of education unless we are to cripple it and render it hopelessly incomplete. It must devolve upon the family and the church, then, to give this instruction to the child and to preserve the religious insight from loss. Both family and church must become much more efficient, educationally speaking, than they are now, if they are to bear this burden successfully.
Page 9 - ... godliness) is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Page 9 - Education then ber, comes a means of introducing young life to its proper place in the social organism. If, finally, we believe that complete self-realisation requires not only human society, but also fellowship with God, then it follows that for us education is the effort to assist immature human beings toward complete self-realisation in and through fellowship with both their fellows and God.