Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life by Eugene Vodolazkin

Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life by Eugene Vodolazkin

What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society. “What’s the point of school?” Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian idea of what a school is for – to mold the populace to serve the state – seems unacceptable today. In vogue, instead, are slogans like “acquiring marketable skills” and “realizing your full potential.” These ideas powerfully shape our culture. Ultimately, they boil down to pursuing one supreme value: individual success in a competitive world. Schools are a mirror of our society as a whole; what we want for schools makes plain what and whom we value in our common life. In the Christian tradition, the life of discipleship is also a school. In this educational community, under the instruction of our one Teacher, we learn not to seek empowerment, but to find strength in weakness; not to out-achieve others, but to serve them; not to pursue our passion, but to obey a call. Also in this issue: poetry by Christian Wiman; reviews of new books by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Francisco Cantú, Leif Enger, Carol Anderson, Stephanie Land, and Susan Wise Bauer; and art by Margaret McWethy, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Gérard David, Jackie Morris, Gustaf Tenggren, Sergey Dushkin, Anja Percival, Dmitry Samofalov, Christoph Wetzel, Sherrie York, Cathleen Rehfield, Paweł Kuczyński, and Jason Landsel. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.

Karen Swallow Prior is a Liberty University English professor who has won numerous awards. She graduated with a Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, where she majored in English. Her work has been published in publications such as The Atlantic, Christianity Today, The Washington Post, Vox, First Things, Sojourners, Relevant, Think Christian, and others. She is a Trinity Forum Senior Fellow, a Senior Fellow at Liberty University's Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, and a member of the Humane Society of the United States' Faith Advisory Board.

She and her husband reside in central Virginia on a 100-year-old homestead with a variety of horses, dogs, and poultry. There are also a number of novels.

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ISBN 13	9780874863277
ISBN 10	0874863279
Title	Plough Quarterly No. 19 - School for Life
Author	Eugene Vodolazkin
Series	Plough Quarterly Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Plough Publishing House
Year published	2019-01-03
Number of pages	88
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