Education
Wisdom and knowledge are essential to building healthy communities. A properly educated citizenry is innovative, stable, and productive; it is also more likely to be just, free and reasoned.
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes."
- C. S. Lewis
Wisdom and knowledge are essential to building healthy communities.
A properly educated citizenry is innovative, stable, and productive; it is also more likely to be just, free and reasoned. While many nations mandate primary and secondary education, many youths graduate uneducated and ill-equipped to understand or operate in the world around them. The public school system is not solely to blame, however, as Scripture clearly bestows the role of “teacher” on parents.
In a beautifully constructed system, God enabled parents to direct the upbringing of their children and to provide moral, spiritual, and classical education. When functioning properly, the home is the best place for children to be discipled and trained. Parents know and love their children better than anyone. Their consistent presence enables them to patiently discipline and faithfully guide their children through the various seasons of life. Parents also influence thier children more than anyone else, especially during the formative years, which makes them the child’s primary role models.
Though parents are primarily responsible for educating their children, circumstances do not always permit them to educate directly. Thus, parents may appropriately delegate some of their responsibility to other teachers, recognizing that delegation does not equate to abdication. Contrary to some views, parents do not relinquish their rights or responsibilities at the schoolhouse door. Parents maintain their prior right to direct their child’s education even in the face of State opposition; they also retain the responsibility for ensuring their children are properly taught.
The ultimate aim of education is to discover Truth. In other words, the purpose of learning is to know God, His works and His commands. When curricula remove this foundational premise, they remove the standard by which we judge what is right and wrong, true and false, functional and failing. If we hope to restore our communities, we as citizen statesmen must renew our commitment to scripturally consistent education whether provided through public, private or home schools.
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