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Christian and education
`` As a private institution, supported by generous individuals, Emory University will recognize no obligation and will adopt no policy that would conflict with its purpose to promote excellence in scholarship and Christian education.
`` When and if it can do so without jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, Emory University will consider applications of persons desiring to study or work at the University without regard to race, color or creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian higher education ''.
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.
In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.
His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Cadillac Heritage Christian offers nondenominational Christian education from pre-K through 12th grade.
* Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, religious education programs of the Catholic Church normally designed for children, originated in Italy
The controversial book " The Education of Christian Women " by Juan Luis Vives, which claimed women have the right to an education, was dedicated to and commissioned by her.
His education showed through his knowledge, in his writings, of Christian writers of his day, including Eusebius, Origen, Didymus the Blind, and writers of the Church of Alexandria.
He received the formal Christian education standard for his day: he studied grammar from age twelve to fourteen ( 390-392 ), rhetoric and humanities from fifteen to twenty ( 393-397 ) and finally theology and biblical studies ( 398-402 ).
Roman Catholic and Protestant churches dominated the education system and the curricula reflected Christian and Western values.
* Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon provides " a broad-based liberal arts education in a Protestant Christian environment ", with a " great books " curriculum emphasizing " the development of basic learning skills ( reading, writing, mathematics, and critical thinking ) and the application of these skills to profound writings of the past "
Maddocks claims that it is likely Hildegard learned simple Latin, and the tenets of the Christian faith, but was not instructed in the Seven Liberal Arts, which formed the basis of all education for the learned classes in the Middle Ages: the Trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric plus the Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
Jerome initially used classical authors to describe Christian concepts such as hell that indicated both his classical education and his deep shame of their associated practices, such as pederasty.
Julian and Gallus were excluded from public life, were strictly guarded in their youth, and given a Christian education.
Falwell repeatedly denounced certain teachings in public schools and secular education in general, calling them breeding grounds for atheism, secularism, and humanism, which he claimed to be in contradiction with Christian morality.
He also took part in the mass education movement to fight illiteracy, founded in 1921 by members of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association with U. S. backing.
It helps to promote an all round education with a strong Christian ethos.
In the 1870s, there was a broad movement toward incorporating Sunday schools into the doctrines of churches as a way to take ownership of the Christian education of children.
Methodists invested heavily in the cause of Christian education because of their emphasis on the child ’ s right to and ability to “ respond to divine influences from the beginning .”
The subordinate principle is that assurances must be given that the gift thus granted can grow by authentic education in the faith and Christian life.
Schools attached to mosques and funded by religious foundations provided a largely free education to Muslim boys in advance of the Christian countries of the time.
Other private schools can also be religious, such as Christian schools, hawzas, yeshivas, and others ; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements.

Christian and children
`` When you stand up in public and take vows to strive to set an example before your children and to teach them the fundamentals of the Christian faith, you strive a little harder to uphold those vows '', explains the slender vice president of the young couples Sunday school class.
The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and, historically, blood libel claims have been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children.
In a number of nationally publicized cases in the early 1990s, prosecutors charged parents belonging to the Christian Science church with murder or manslaughter after their children died of likely curable ailments without being medically treated.
Under penalty of death, he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism.
The question concerned the educational value of pre-Christian classical thought: " Given that the body of knowledge of the pre-Christian Romans was heathen in origin, was it safe to teach it to Christian children?
United Methodists practice open communion, inviting " all who intend a Christian life, together with their children " to receive Communion.
Christian Munch also instructed his son in history and literature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
" Christian reprimanded his children by telling them that their mother was looking down from heaven and grieving over their misbehavior.
Her story The Land of Far-Beyond is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with modern children as the central characters.
These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary.
Hans Christian Andersen published his " Fairy Tales " in 1835 with the intention of educating Denmark's children on the ways of society.
The group supported the belief that baptism was not necessary until children could decide for themselves whether they wanted to become a Christian.
* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
Having no children, he bequeathed much of his estate to Christian charities, especially those that helped the poor.
Hawkins dryly commented that Jahangir made his nephews Christian " not for any zeal he had to Christianity, as the Fathers, and all Christians thought ; but upon the prophecies of certain learned Gentiles, who told him that the sons of his should be disinherited, and the children of his brother should reign.
His numerous grandchildren also include Michael Brando ( born 1988 ), son of Christian Brando, Prudence Brando and Shane Brando, children of Miko C. Brando, the three children of Teihotu Brando and the children of Michael Gilman, among others.
Later, they stumble across a group of non-possessed children and Father Horst, a Christian priest who led them to escape the settlement, and try to protect them from the attacks by the increasingly effective possessed humans, the weapons of the mercenaries of limited use, and their numbers insufficient to fend off the attackers.
If there is satisfactory assurance, i. e. " any pledge giving a well-founded hope for the Christian upbringing of the children ", then " the priest cannot refuse to celebrate the sacrament without delay, as in the case of children of Christian families ".

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