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Education

"The philosophy of education in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next." (Abraham Lincoln)   ...

Illustration: Purity, Abstinence

In a recent edition of his "Breakpoint" commentary, Chuck Colson talked about a recent landmark study demonstrating that abstinence programs are the most effective sex-education available: “The study ...

Parental Duty

A Reader's Digest article, "Hard Truths About Day Care," concludes: "What the very young want, and urgently need, child-development experts agree, is not education or socialization, but the affection ...

Leadership

What Makes a Good Leader? John W. Gardner, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, who directs a leadership study project in Washington, D.C., has pinpointed five ch...

Ethics

In his August 1,2003Breakpoint commentary, Charles Colson said, "Last year, Zogby International took a poll of American college seniors in which 97 percent said that they believed their professors had...

Happiness

In a recent Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson says, "Bad choices in all of the major areas of our lives - education, career, marriage, and more - can be traced back to mistaken beliefs about what wi...

Illustration: Names

The story appeared in the January 29, 2003, edition of The Washington Post. Titled “Picabo’s Problem,” it is a story about the well-known Olympic gold medallist, Picabo Street. The article notes that ...

Thanksgiving

A fourth-grader stood up in his public school class, giving a report concerning the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s how he began:...

Cross

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket. He kept it there to remind himself that there is something more important in life than basketball!...

Illustration: Students, Graduation

It was graduation day, and everybody's going to get their diploma but David. ...

Illustration: Expectations, Children

After school one day, a young first-grade boy was sitting at the kitchen table, eating his afternoon snack, when he blurted out, "Mom, the teacher was asking me today if I have any brothers or sisters...

Cross

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket. He kept it there to remind himself that there is something more important in life than basketball! The cross reminds us ...

Service

Phil J. Quigley is the chairman and CEO of a very large corporation, Pacific Telesis. But you will often find him in California classrooms. His company has spent 100 million dollars to wire California...

Poverty & Riches

Poverty in America. A free lesson on how to escape poverty. Economist Charles Murray author of the book Losing Ground, offers a formula on how to escape poverty in America. Here's his presc...

Qualified for What You're Doing?

During a trip to Lancaster, Penn., I once had dinner in an Amish home, where I heard about their unusual procedure for choosing a pastor. ...

Illustration: Knowledge, Learners

In the first Men in Black movie, Will Smith (“J”) at first refuses to believe Tommy Lee Jones (“K”) that the earth is playing host to thousands of creatures from other planets. K dismisses J’s “knowle...

Making Room for Atheism

An informed biblical worldview supports pluralism, democracy, and freedom. Christians should neither tolerate coercive secularization of the government, nor should they aim to establish a theocracy....

Illustration: Purpose, Direction

Former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice once told graduates of the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson that they have a responsibility to be "optimistic" in t...

Impersonal

We're living in a day that is increasingly depersonalized. Nothing makes this more clear than the impersonal computer glitches which are becoming more frequent. I read about a letter that went out fro...