Protestantism also spread in Korea. In 1960 one in twenty Koreans identified as Protestant. By 2010 that number was one in four. In 2020 Korea was home to five of the world’s largest churches, the largest of which, Yoido Full Gospel Church, began in 1961 and was believed to have 800,000 members in 2018.
At the end of the 1970s, many feared that Christianity in China was near extinction. But not only did it persist, it flourished. It was estimated that China had 3 million Christians in the 1980s. The number grew to 100 million by 2018. Not only did the Christian population grow, but it migrated from the heartland to the cities. In the span of one generation, Chinese Christianity became an urban movement that attracted an increasingly well-educated following.
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In most of the denominations, evangelicals formed a conservative minority, so that about one-third of the 36 million Protestants in the national council were evangelical. When these were added to about 33 million evangelicals outside the council, the so-called private Protestants constituted a major religious body, close in number to the 46 million Roman Catholics.
They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
It is an accepted cliché in education that the number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
I always saw the value in that, sure. But in my mind, a better number one goal was this: I wanted to help students learn how to judge themselves.
Did they recognize their true abilities? Did they have a sense of their own flaws? Were they realistic about how others viewed them?
In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?
… accustomed to thinking of geographic mobility in the interest of a professional career as the norm, it may come as a shock to learn that the average American lives within eighteen miles of her mother. Fifty-seven percent of Americans have never lived outside of their home states and 37 percent have spent their entire lives in their hometowns, with the exception of periods of military service or college education.18 Those without a university degree are far less likely to travel across the country or the world in pursuit of career goals. The numbers are similar in Europe.
Reflecting the sacrifice of family commitments to career ambitions that is characteristic of many highly educated and ambitious overclass professionals, a survey of twenty-four advanced industrial democracies showed that, compared to the non-college-educated, university-educated individuals are more likely to describe children as a “burden” rather than as a “joy.”19 Working-class households are far more likely than overclass households to rely on a stay-at-home parent or relatives to care for children. In the United States, 66 percent of those whose education ended with high school say that children are better off when one parent stays at home to raise them; the number plunges to 51 percent for those with a bachelor’s degree or more.
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