Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation … - James K. A. Smith

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When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

James K. A. Smith

Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world - all before we ever start 'thinking' about it

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Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

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In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

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What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

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What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

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Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

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