...when Milton, in his treatise on Education, lays down that the end of learning 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,' the language might be taken in a general sense ; and when he goes on to define a complete and generous...

...purposefulness of learning again in Of Education, where the end of knowledge could not be more worthy: "The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright" (CP, 2, 366-67). Even Satan is aware of this power of praise. Dissembling to Uriel, he pointedly interjects...

...revelation of God's Word in future ages. We may recall that the prose work explicitly devoted to "repairing] the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright" begins with Milton addressing Hartlib thus: "I shall . . . strait conduct ye to a hill side, where...

...of the Christian goal of education appears in Milton's famous treatise Of Education, where he wrote: The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.45 Milton here defines education in terms of what it is designed to accomplish. There may be many...

...Education, 1664: "The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining how to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection"; Jaeger notes that...

...Milton's conception of the education of integrity. Indeed, he sees the main purpose of all education to be "to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." 36 Knowledge, including the prodigious knowledge he himself possessed, was to give strength to the...

...midnight became the serious poet who valued books to the extraordinary degree that he believed that "the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."1 And, for Milton, to know God aright, to be learned and pious, is not only holiness, it is...

...reflected a Baconian optimism in the potential of method to reverse the effects of the fall: "The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." We attain knowledge of God by studying in ascending order the works of nature and humanity. The second...

...harmonious relationship to each other because he sees them in relation to the true end of knowledge: "to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him." With this end, the root of all true knowledge, Adam is able to distinguish the greater good from the...

...repeated to the other pupils on Monday morning.105 John Milton, like others before him, had no doubts that 'the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him'.106 It must be remembered, too, that these schools existed in a recently Protestantised nation,...