Nancy Pearcey

Always A Good Thing

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

- Nancy Pearcey

Christmas Centuries

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

Education Over Ultimate

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

Roman Empire Middle Been

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

Relentless Impatient Area

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

- Nancy Pearcey

Liberalism Other Servitude

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

Facts Scientific Empirical

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

Always Radical Willing

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

- Nancy Pearcey

Which Meant Detachment

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

Freedom White Always

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

- Nancy Pearcey

Political Social Within

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

- Nancy Pearcey

Does Alienated Require

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

- Nancy Pearcey

Reasonable Costs Borne

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

Mind Thus Crucial

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

- Nancy Pearcey

Like Agent He Or She

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

- Nancy Pearcey

Rest Give Set

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

- Nancy Pearcey

Public Education Grants

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

- Nancy Pearcey

Holy Scratch Estate

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

Thought Own Private

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

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