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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Government
#Matter
#School
#She
#Teacher
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Beginning
#Church
#Leadership
#Middle
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Literature
#Love
#Own
#Process
#Science
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Blind
#Change
#Life
#More
#Theory
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Children
#Education
#Government
#Turn
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Feelings
#Mind
#Morality
#Spirit
#World
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Indigenous People
#Indigenous
#People
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Conviction
#Human Mind
#Human
#Mind
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Choice
#Political
#Struggle
#Survival
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Convictions
#Debate
#Right
#Tolerance
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Ideas
#Information
#Knowledge
#Who
#Work
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Area
#Every
#Impatient
#Life
#Relentless
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Knowledge
#Political
#Power
#Society
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
- Nancy Pearcey
#Create
#Language
#Marriage
#Matrimony
#Scratch
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Classroom
#Education
#Monopoly
#Public
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Classroom
#Facts
#More
#Science
#Will
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Attitude
#Did
#Matter
#Suffering
#World
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Always
#Best
#Competition
#Good
#People
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Breakdown
#Marriage
#Society
#Support
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
- Nancy Pearcey
#Birth
#Celebrate
#Christmas
#Easter
#Up
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