As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

There are several schools in Glasnevin, including Lindsay Road National School, Glasnevin National School, an " Educate Together " national school, St Vincent's ( Christian Brothers ) School, St Columba's Convent School, Scoil Chaitríona and St Mary's Secondary School.

Baum's avowed intentions with the Oz books, and other fairy tales, was to tell such tales as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen told, bringing them up to date by making the characters not stereotypical dwarfs or genies, and by removing both the violence and the moral to which the violence was to point.

He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and St Paul's Christian Brothers, de la Salle, Rangoon.

He was originally educated at home with the other children in the household, and then attended a French Christian Brothers school in Haifa, and then boarding at another Catholic school in Beirut.

Reggio spent fourteen years in fasting, silence and prayer, training to be a monk within the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic pontifical order, before abandoning that path and making the films.

Having passed the eleven-plus exam in 1960, he attended St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar School.

Category: People educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers ' Grammar School, Belfast

Popular brands include Christian Brothers and Korbel.

In the practice of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, there is an additional decade for the intentions of the students or the Virgin Mary.

Exhibit of Guy Cobb's " Braille paintings " for the blind at Christian Brothers University in 2006

The Memphis area is home to many private, college-prep schools: Briarcrest Christian School ( co-ed ), Christian Brothers High School ( boys ), Evangelical Christian School ( co-ed ), First Assembly Christian School ( co-ed ), Hutchison School ( girls ), Lausanne Collegiate School ( co-ed ), Memphis University School ( boys ), Saint Benedict at Auburndale ( co-ed ), St. George's Independent School ( co-ed ), St. Agnes Academy ( girls ), Bishop Byrne Middle and High School ( co-ed ), Immaculate Conception Cathedral School ( girls ), St. Mary's Episcopal School ( girls ), and Elliston Baptist Academy ( co-ed ).

Colleges and universities located in the city include the University of Memphis, Rhodes College, Memphis College of Art, LeMoyne – Owen College, Christian Brothers University, Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis Theological Seminary, Harding School of Theology, Embry – Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide ( Memphis Campus ), Reformed Theological Seminary ( satellite campus ), William R. Moore College of Technology, Southern College of Optometry, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis, Visible Music College, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

The Christian Brothers High School Band is the oldest high school band in America, founded in 1872.

Though Abraham de Moivre's parents were Protestant, he first attended Christian Brothers ' Catholic school in Vitry, which was unusually tolerant given religious tensions in France at the time.

This collection, which paralleled those by the Brothers Grimm in Germany and Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark, captured an important overview of the folk culture of the mountains and fjords.

He was educated at the Christian Brothers School at Malahide Road, Marino, before entering his father's publican business.

Mobutu's earliest studies were in Léopoldville, but his mother eventually sent him to an uncle in Coquilhatville, where he attended the Christian Brothers School, a Catholic mission boarding school.

At the age of seven, he was enrolled at the Instituto Pedagógico La Salle, run by the Christian Brothers.

* Christian Brothers College ( disambiguation )

Educated from 1903 at St Joseph's Christian Brothers School in Fairview, North Dublin, he moved to the O ' Connell School in north Dublin for senior classes, and then attended University College Dublin and graduated with a degree in modern languages and law.

He was one of four brothers who may have been born in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland to an Irish speaking mother, Máire Ní Scannláin, and John Holland, and learned English properly only when he attended the local English-speaking National School system and, from 1858, in the Christian Brothers in Ennistymon.

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

* Maranatha Christian Academy, a Marikina ( Philippines )- based Christian school, now called as the National Christian Life College

* Morrison Christian Academy, an American school in Taiwan

* Morrison Academy, a Christian international school in Taichung, Taiwan

* Valley Christian Academy, a first grade through high school " interdenominational Christian school " ( parochial )

He furthered his study of Christian theology at the Patriarchical Halki seminary in Turkey, and at the Theological Academy in Kiev, Russian Empire ( now Ukraine ).

* Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

Private high schools in Toledo include Maumee Valley Country Day School, Central Catholic High School, St. Francis de Sales High School, St. John's Jesuit High School and Academy, Notre Dame Academy, St. Ursula Academy ( Ottawa Hills ), Cardinal Stritch High School ( Oregon ), the Toledo Islamic Academy, Freedom Christian Academy, Toledo Christian Schools, Emmanuel Christian, the David S. Stone Hebrew Academy ( Sylvania ), Monclova Christian Academy, and Apostolic Christian Academy.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

To others whose concern it is to penetrate the significance of Christian Humanism, the Renaissance elements are of primary concern.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

It is raising no disturbing question as to what Christian stewardship means for the relationship of the richest nation in the world to economically underdeveloped peoples.

It is not disturbing them by thoughts of their Christian responsibility in relation to the world.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.