---
title: 'Education'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1871-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Preaching'
scriptures:
- 'John 1'
- 'John 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1871-education
---

# Education

Nevin argues education is uniquely human and essentially spiritual, requiring mind-on-mind contact. Living teachers, oral instruction, preaching and catechizing are superior to mere book-learning.

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