Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I've been thinking about this phrase lately. You can begin a movement without affecting the culture, but without a culture, the movement is not sustained.
In 1924, GK Chesterton wrote the following: "What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves."
And this is why revival culture is so important.

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