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The way in which Abraham Kuyper conceived the nature and role of education in modern European society was recorded in an incipient character in his inaugural lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam. The present memoir serves as a starting point for a brief retrospective of his life and part of his fruitful thinking, as well as an embryonic analysis of the legacy of this modern reformer for the interaction between theology and education. In his speech, he clarifies that education is a divine gift given to humanity in order to keep it free. Furthermore, he proposes that it plays a key role in the social dissemination of knowledge. According to Abraham Kuyper, education must have its own dimension, always appearing independently of the Church and the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way in which Abraham Kuyper conceived the nature and role of education in modern European society was recorded in an incipient character in his inaugural lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam. The present memoir serves as a starting point for a brief retrospective of his life and part of his fruitful thinking, as well as an embryonic analysis of the legacy of this modern reformer for the interaction between theology and education. In his speech, he clarifies that education is a divine gift given to humanity in order to keep it free. Furthermore, he proposes that it plays a key role in the social dissemination of knowledge. According to Abraham Kuyper, education must have its own dimension, always appearing independently of the Church and the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]