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Brave Hearts, Bold Minds

5/28/2023

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​My Baird clan genes came fully to attention as I swung down the aisle behind a kilted bagpiper at the Scots School in Bathurst a few years ago. I was the guest speaker and it was stirring stuff! So, my dormant William Wallace rose again, sword in hand, when I read the motto of 130-year-old Scots College Sydney, ‘Brave Hearts, Bold Minds!’ This expresses their commitment to making boys’ education adventurous. I love that idea.
 
I knew historian Dr Hugh Chilton had been using the stories I’d recorded as ‘Australia’s Invisible History’ in his role as Director of Research and Professional Learning at Scots. So, it was great to catch up with him at the recent Evangelical History Association conference in Parramatta. He’s the Vice-President of this group of researchers who are uncovering great Australian faith stories.  Here Hugh gives a window into the way he sets these to work in his classroom.
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Marion Trevor
5/29/2023 05:41:45 pm

It's exciting to see kids being taught the Christian truth of our history by such young professionals as Hugh. From what he said, your stories have helped the kids find traction , and more importantly, may kick-start a rational investigation and presentation of our Christian heritage by them. Our young people need to be given a reason to have national pride, and our awesome colonial Christian heroes, of every ethnicity, certainly deliver. Seeing Christian history taught in schools swells my spiritual energy. Thank you Paul and Hugh.

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Paul Roe link
6/3/2023 06:35:27 pm

Marion. Hugh is certainly on the cutting edge in history teaching. I hope his passion for engaging young hearts and minds with our Australian faith stories is infectious!

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