What Constitutes a Sound Education for Children?

Regardless of the kind of education you prefer for children (public, private, homeschool), Mark Mitchell's call for cultivating moral imagination and emphasizing a logocentric view of reality in the most recent issue of Touchstone is one that should be heard. You may not agree with all his particulars, but the heart of his argument should be appreciated by all Christian parents.

Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite parts of the article:

But setting the content of the books aside (for only a moment), those whose minds are shaped by an ongoing encounter with language will develop mental habits that include patience, perseverance, the ability to think abstractly, and an imagination that does not require the constant stimulation of external images. The imagination of the reader (guided by the author) creates the images, whereas the child raised on television merely imbibes what has already been fully rendered by the camera.

Read the entire article here.