...skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war" — and necessary "to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."-1 Like Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, the Americans would have the young take from Plutarch,...

...Milton wrote a short essay on what education should accomplish for the Christian. It reads, in part, "The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him."14 Are our children learning to become disciples of Christ and to love God with all of their hearts,...

...antique knowledge, uncannily echoing Subtle's own recollection of "the first springs of wisdom": The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents...out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him. . . . But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive...

...language and humankind's fallen nature and too little upon his faith in the power "of learning ... to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright" (John Milton, Of Education, in Complete Prose Works of John Milton, 8 vols., ed. Don M. Wolfe et al....

...goals?" when educating our children. "The end of learning," wrote John Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him. If this be so — and the Bible says it is so — then the aim of American education is all wrong."...

...earlier, John Milton in his Of Education (1644), p. 2, had thought religion the very point of education: 'The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...our first parents by regaining to know God aright.' 43 Edgeworth, Memoirs, vol. ii, pp. 527, 549. 44 Michael Newton, 'The Child of Nature' (1996)45 RL...

...he a great furtherance to the enlargement of truth and honest living with much more lieace23 . . . The end, then, of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents hy regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him. imitate him. to he like him,...

...for the soul: The end, then, of learning is co repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining co know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him. to unirate him. to he like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which,...

...sequestered) again revived and restored'; Milton, On Education: 'The end then of learning is to repait the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know...God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him.' Many literary critics argued that the goal of poetry was 'beatitude': see Scaliger 1617, VII, ii, 830,...

...for example, and the understanding that the pursuit of knowledge is of the utmost importance, since the "end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him" (CPW 2.366-367). While Eve's transgressive desire for wisdom validates Milton's subsequent pursuit...