Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns: An Educational Problem for Protestants

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns, by E. A. (Edward Alexander) Sutherland

An Educational Problem for Protestants
“My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jer. 2:13.
By E. A. SUTHERLAND President of Battle Creek College
REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING CO. BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN 1900

Copyright, 1900, By E. A. Sutherland

There are few books which treat of the history of education, and fewer which attempt to show the part that the educational work has ever borne in the upbuilding of nations. That religion is inseparably connected with, and upheld by, the system of education maintained by its advocates, has been recognized by many historians in a casual way; but, to the author’s knowledge, no one has hitherto made this thought the subject of a volume.
In teaching the history of education and the growth of Protestantism, the close relationship ever existing between the latter and true methods of education led to a careful study of the educational system of the nations of the earth, especially of those nations which have exerted a lasting influence upon the world’s history. The present volume is the result of that study.
D’Aubigné says that in the Reformation “the school was early placed beside the church; and these two great institutions, so powerful to regenerate the nations, were equally reanimated by it. It was by a close alliance with learning that the Reformation entered into the world.”