One of my favorite things about CHS is their adherence to teaching classical works, from the Odyssey to a Tale of Two Cities, and philosophers and writers like Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Dickens, and Milton. Even though I detested it then, now, because my intellectual and literary palette has changed quite a bit, I find myself reading back through those works on my own with a much deeper love and appreciation for them, which is due primarily to the cognitive foundation that the teachers who taught them to me built. Even though I found my original exposure to the works to be egregiously intimidating and immeasurably insipid, if it wasnt for the effort the teachers made to freaking beat the books and authors literary and rhetorical merits into my thick, seemingly impenetrable adolescent skull, I honestly do not think that I would enjoy these works and read them like I do today, instead of beginning to appreciate them later in my life. The things that impacted me the greatest was in 11th grade when my English teacher, Mrs.Riley, had us read Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, annotate the rhetoric in Job and Philemon, and in 12th grade had us read Miltons Paradise Lost; those things combined with the Church History and theology courses I took under Mr. Hartman, and Hermeneutics, opened the doors for me to truly loving the great Evangelists and theological writers, which stimulated me to explore that world, and led me to the greats like Wesley, Calvin, Luther, Whitfield, Spurgeon, Tertullian, Aquinas, Piper, Sproul, MacArthur, and so on. I truly think that if it was not for my love for these things and this kind of world - that God instilled through the curriculum and teachers that taught them at CHS - and the phenomenal education I received at my high school, I wouldnt want to go anywhere near Seminary. It is amazing how God can use education to change you and to help form your entire life, and there is not a day that goes by that I am not entirely grateful for CHS and the amazing teachers who give much of their life to help entirely change the lives of their students. I apologize for the melodramatic encomium, but, throughout all of my life, Im always going to look back to the educational, academic, and intellectual foundation that my undergraduate and postgraduate education sits on. And by Gods grace and providence, Im glad that its actually a good one.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:41:23 +0000
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