CHAPTER PAGE I GOD THE SOURCE OF WISDOM 9 II THE HEAVENLY SCHOOL 15 III THE EDENIC SCHOOL 22 IV THE HISTORY OF FIFTEEN CENTURIES 42 V THE SCHOOL OF ABRAHAM 54 VI EDUCATION IN ISRAEL 68 VII THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE PAGAN WORLD 92 VIII CHRIST THE EDUCATOR OF EDUCATORS 117 IX EDUCATION IN THE EARLY CHURCH 139 X THE PAPACY—AN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM 156 XI EDUCATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES 184 XII THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY REFORMATION AN EDUCATIONAL REFORM 214 XIII THE REACTION AFTER THE EDUCATIONAL REFORMATION 248 XIV AMERICA AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM 288 XV AMERICA AND THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM (Continued) 316 XVI CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 339 XVII CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (Continued) 380 I INTRODUCTORY: GOD THE SOURCE OF WISDOM “Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.... As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; and under it is turned up as it were fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires; and it hath dust of gold. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen. The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.... “_But where shall wisdom be found?_ And _where is the place of understanding?_ Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. _It can not be gotten for gold_, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.... The gold and the crystal can not equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.... _Whence then cometh wisdom?_ And where is the place of understanding?... _God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof._”[1] Man sometimes feels that _he_ understands the way of wisdom, and boasts that he _knows_ the place thereof. He may indeed understand it in a measure, and he may ascertain its abiding place; but that knowledge comes in one way, and only one. He who understandeth the way thereof and knoweth the place thereof, opens a channel which connects earth with that fountain of life.