What about our children and grandchildren?
Is there hope? Yes!
It makes no difference if we’re talking about music, the Christian faith, etiquette, speech, or clothing. We teach our children best by equipping them to contrast what is good and right with what is not.
In his new book, Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music, Robert Reilly writes:
“I employed a very simple teaching method with my children. I regularly showed them beautiful things and great movies and played for them some of the finest music. I didn’t preach about these things; I simply let them experience them. They gained an intuitive appreciation for beauty and were automatically repelled by ugliness. I then let them explain to me what was wrong with it. When my oldest son was still in grade school, he came back from seeing a movie with one of his classmates. The father driving the car played only acid rock on the car radio. My son returned very agitated about the music. I asked him what was wrong with it. He replied, “It is irritating to the mind.” I then knew that what I was doing worked.”
Quote from an interview with Robert Reilly
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet, 5/26/17.
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