Schooled in the Facts

"Modern post-Enlightenment societies have, as an essential part of thier development set up public educational systems by which children are taken away from their parents and introduced to those areas of knowledge and skill that enable them to function effectively in the public world of facts. Science is taught as a true account of how things really are. But what can be done about values? On what basis are they to be taught? Values in any culture, insofar as they are consciously and reflectively affirmed and not merely embodied in customary behavior, are based on some vision of the ultimate nature of things."


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 38