by Dr. Paul A. Kienel
Christian schools have been a part of the fabric of American society since the Pilgrims and Puritans waded ashore in 1620 and 1630. Yet there are Americans, even Christian Americans, who are woefully uninformed about Christian schools. Here are seven common questions about Christian schools:
1. How can you mix Christian faith with an academic curriculum? How do you integrate the two?
The relationship between faith and learning is as old as the Bible itself. Second Corinthians 10:5 instructs us to “bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ...” The Apostle Paul said that in Jesus are “all the treasures of wisdom and... knowledge” (Colossians 2:3). One Christian school educator aptly described Biblical integration as, “Bringing the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the truths of Scripture to bear on the formation of young minds seeking to know the world.”
He said his school, “Offers an environment where change can happen in the personal lives of young people. Here, a vision of God’s grace in Christ may be glimpsed, depths of character explored, love and integrity moved from principle into action and quality in one’s life. We provide the opportunity for real change by communicating the essentials of Christian character.”1
Biblical integration is spiritual in nature. It can only be done by educators who are true believers in Jesus Christ.
2. How can Christian school students adjust to the “real world” if they do not attend a school that teaches a non-Christian point of view?
It may surprise some people, but there is no Biblical support for training Christian children in a non-Biblical environment.
Decades ago Yale University’s President, Timothy Dwight, said, “Education ought everywhere to be religious education... parents are bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.”2
Christian psychologist Clyde Narramore said, “A tree that is planted in poor soil doesn’t have the advantages that one planted in good earth has. Contrary to some belief, we do not grow through resistance. Children do not develop because they resist food. Their growth comes as a result of good food and care.”3
The Bible describes life on this earth as warfare. Warriors are never trained in enemy territory. School is a training ground. A primary purpose of a Christian school is to prepare students to be non-conformists to the world. The Bible says, “And be not conformed to this world...” (Romans 12:2a), but at the same time we are to be prepared to live victoriously in the world. Note the words of the new Testament’s Dr. Luke who wrote, “...when a student is fully trained he will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:40). Simply put, if you want your children to live as Christians they must be taught by Christians.
3. Generally speaking, how does Christian school education compare academically with non-Christian schools?
Year after year, standardized achievement test scores affirm that students taught by Christian school educators achieve well above the national norm. In fact, in twenty-seven years of testing with the Stanford Achievement Test our students have never achieved less than one full year ahead of the national norm. It is, indeed, a commendable record.
4. Do Christian schools offer a wide range of student activities which broaden their educational experience?
Depending on the financial strength of the school, most Christian schools offer a wide range of student activities such as fine arts, speech meets, academic meets, spelling bee, student leadership conferences, cheerleading camps and all kinds of sporting activities. This past year, 56,807 students participated in student activities sponsored by the Association of Christian Schools International. This does not include of course, the wide range of student activities offered by individual schools.
5. Is the enrollment in Christian schools open to students of all races?
Each school that joins the Association of Christian Schools International must affirm annually on its school application form that students of all races are welcome. Since the message of Christ is available to all, so our schools are available to all provided student applications meet other minimum requirements of the school.
6. Are Christian schools growing in number?
Not only are new Christian schools being started, but established Christian schools are also experiencing solid growth. This past year has been the largest growth year in the history of the Association of Christian Schools International. The combined student enrollment of the 3,174 member schools of ACSI was 661,475 this year - an increase of 95,940 students. This year 35,228 teachers attended ACSI teacher conventions, an increase of over 3,367 over the previous year! These figures are remarkable indicators of the Lord’s rich blessing on Christian school education.
7. What about the future of Christian school education?
I am in my 28th year of service as President of ACSI. Never have I seen the momentum for growth, for spiritual commitment and for academic excellence as I see this year in our Christian schools around the world. I believe if we will stay true to our Christian purpose God will continue to smile with favor upon us.
1 Thad Gabelein, Stony Brook brochure, Stony Brook, New York.
2 Timothy Dwight, President of Yale University (1795-1817).
3 Dr. Clyde M. Narramore, Your Questions Answered About Christian Schools, 1983, ACSI, La Habra, California, p. 49.
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Thursday, 12 February 2009
A Few Things Christian Schools Cannot Do For Your Child
by Dr. Paul A. Kienel
There are 662,350 students attending ACSI member schools and colleges this year. A conservative estimate of the cost parents will pay in tuition this year adds up to a combined total of $1,854,580,000. If the taxpayers were paying for the expense of educating our Christian school students in the public school ($5,010 x 662,350) the grand total would be $3,318,373,500. Christian school parents clearly pay less for Christian school education than taxpayers pay for public education. We pay significantly less and we clearly receive significantly more in quality academics and in positive, Christ-centered training for our children. A problem arises, however, when parents expect more from the Christian school than they should. Permit me to list a few things Christian schools cannot do for your child.
1. Christian schools cannot be a substitute for a quality home environment.
The number one training influence in the life of a child is his or her home. A parent, more than teachers and pastors, is the primary model for children to follow. Parents are the “pattern makers” for Christian living, attitudes toward life, attitudes toward others, work ethics, basic manners, money management, health habits, manner of speech, goal setting and study habits. Pastor Chuck Swindoll says, “Home is where life makes up its mind.” Quite frankly, the impact of the Christian school is severely limited if the home is not what it ought to be. No teacher can compensate for an unstable home.
2. Christian schools cannot guarantee a perfect school environment.
Some parents are unrealistic about other students in their child’s Christian school. They expect a degree of perfection among mortals that simply is not attainable on earth. Perhaps you have heard it said that “If you find the perfect church - don’t join it - you will ruin it.” Christian schools are decidedly better than the secular public school alternative but they are not perfect. Students come to the Christian school with varying degrees of spiritual maturity. Some are not Christians. There is a wide variety of intellectual ability, emotional development, home training and personality patterns among the students in any school, including the Christian school. The typical Christian school setting is not the “sheltered environment” that critics make it out to be. As the father of three daughters who attended Christian schools, I advised my children to carefully select their close personal friends - even in the Christian school. Remember, any time two or more people get together in any kind of institution there is room for improvement in at least one of them! If this were not so, there would be no need for Christian schools.
3. Christian schools cannot increase the level of your child’s intelligence.
It simply is not true that we are all created equal. In the broadest sense, in a free society we are created with an equal opportunity. But God has fashioned each of us with varying degrees of intelligence, imagination and drive. Christian school educators cannot, nor should they, push a child beyond his or her ability to perform. Children need a reasonable level of intellectual stretching and academic challenge, but caring Christian school teachers cannot perform nor should they attempt to perform “academic miracles” to please parents who may have an unrealistic view of their children’s abilities. Parents and teachers alike should know that a child’s academic success in school is only part of the total composite of qualities that God can use to make a person worthy of our respect, love and admiration. Never judge a child’s future worth to the world on his current academic prowess in school.
4. Christian schools cannot duplicate parental love and support.
Most adults have forgotten the emotional stress we experienced as children at school. The very nature of a school requires that it maintain an orderly, disciplined environment if learning is to occur. The process of learning can be emotionally stressful and mentally stretching. Parents can greatly reduce the pressure our children may feel by encouraging them, inspiring them and loving them.
Children and young people need parental love and support when they experience disappointment in a youthful friendship or even a youthful romance which has “gone sour.” It happens. It’s part of the process of growing up and parents can help immeasurably with their understanding.
5. Christian schools cannot replace the spiritual influence of a parent.
Read the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 6:6-9, “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” Christian school education may be frustrating for your child if the Christian principles taught at school are not a continuation of the Christian principles taught in your home. If yours is not a Christian home, I urge you to respond to the invitation of Jesus Christ, the incomparable Savior of the world. Accept Him as your personal Savior and then in His strong name train your family in a manner that will please Him. You will not regret it.
Christian school education is a major force for good in the lives of our children. It can be enhanced if the church, the home and the school are all on the same spiritual and academic frequency.
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There are 662,350 students attending ACSI member schools and colleges this year. A conservative estimate of the cost parents will pay in tuition this year adds up to a combined total of $1,854,580,000. If the taxpayers were paying for the expense of educating our Christian school students in the public school ($5,010 x 662,350) the grand total would be $3,318,373,500. Christian school parents clearly pay less for Christian school education than taxpayers pay for public education. We pay significantly less and we clearly receive significantly more in quality academics and in positive, Christ-centered training for our children. A problem arises, however, when parents expect more from the Christian school than they should. Permit me to list a few things Christian schools cannot do for your child.
1. Christian schools cannot be a substitute for a quality home environment.
The number one training influence in the life of a child is his or her home. A parent, more than teachers and pastors, is the primary model for children to follow. Parents are the “pattern makers” for Christian living, attitudes toward life, attitudes toward others, work ethics, basic manners, money management, health habits, manner of speech, goal setting and study habits. Pastor Chuck Swindoll says, “Home is where life makes up its mind.” Quite frankly, the impact of the Christian school is severely limited if the home is not what it ought to be. No teacher can compensate for an unstable home.
2. Christian schools cannot guarantee a perfect school environment.
Some parents are unrealistic about other students in their child’s Christian school. They expect a degree of perfection among mortals that simply is not attainable on earth. Perhaps you have heard it said that “If you find the perfect church - don’t join it - you will ruin it.” Christian schools are decidedly better than the secular public school alternative but they are not perfect. Students come to the Christian school with varying degrees of spiritual maturity. Some are not Christians. There is a wide variety of intellectual ability, emotional development, home training and personality patterns among the students in any school, including the Christian school. The typical Christian school setting is not the “sheltered environment” that critics make it out to be. As the father of three daughters who attended Christian schools, I advised my children to carefully select their close personal friends - even in the Christian school. Remember, any time two or more people get together in any kind of institution there is room for improvement in at least one of them! If this were not so, there would be no need for Christian schools.
3. Christian schools cannot increase the level of your child’s intelligence.
It simply is not true that we are all created equal. In the broadest sense, in a free society we are created with an equal opportunity. But God has fashioned each of us with varying degrees of intelligence, imagination and drive. Christian school educators cannot, nor should they, push a child beyond his or her ability to perform. Children need a reasonable level of intellectual stretching and academic challenge, but caring Christian school teachers cannot perform nor should they attempt to perform “academic miracles” to please parents who may have an unrealistic view of their children’s abilities. Parents and teachers alike should know that a child’s academic success in school is only part of the total composite of qualities that God can use to make a person worthy of our respect, love and admiration. Never judge a child’s future worth to the world on his current academic prowess in school.
4. Christian schools cannot duplicate parental love and support.
Most adults have forgotten the emotional stress we experienced as children at school. The very nature of a school requires that it maintain an orderly, disciplined environment if learning is to occur. The process of learning can be emotionally stressful and mentally stretching. Parents can greatly reduce the pressure our children may feel by encouraging them, inspiring them and loving them.
Children and young people need parental love and support when they experience disappointment in a youthful friendship or even a youthful romance which has “gone sour.” It happens. It’s part of the process of growing up and parents can help immeasurably with their understanding.
5. Christian schools cannot replace the spiritual influence of a parent.
Read the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 6:6-9, “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” Christian school education may be frustrating for your child if the Christian principles taught at school are not a continuation of the Christian principles taught in your home. If yours is not a Christian home, I urge you to respond to the invitation of Jesus Christ, the incomparable Savior of the world. Accept Him as your personal Savior and then in His strong name train your family in a manner that will please Him. You will not regret it.
Christian school education is a major force for good in the lives of our children. It can be enhanced if the church, the home and the school are all on the same spiritual and academic frequency.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
HISTORY OF CHANGES IN AMERICAN EDUCATION and thus the changes in government
The law changed and forced changes in education. It was not the nation that changed the law so much as it was a panel of nine men on a run-away supreme court bench. This happened in the 1920's, and in 1947-48, and again in the early 1960's.
Once they changed the explanation of history ie the Constitution, the rest of the nation took it like sheep, until now few know how things used to be understood. It's been taught wrong for over 50 years, and now, by omission, the true old history is no longer existent in the hearts and minds of America's youth, most teachers, and even lawyers.
Understandings of men changed and thus the goals of education was allowed to be changed.
Originally in America, our law and our education was based on God and the Bible. The change is that now our law and our education are based on men's opinions that contradict God and the Bible.
From 1607 until 1807 there could not be found in America a school which did not teach Bible understandings on their subjects. For this theme and coverage of 200 years of early American history, see the Founding Fathers and original thirteen colony charters and the constitutions of those colonies. Also see the Constitutions of the newly formed states as they came into the Union. Strong reference to God is made over and over. Also the NorthWest Treaty referenced how schools should be teaching scripture understanding to the children.
Christians came to Plymouth Rock for freedom of their religion. They instituted schools to train up their children in their beliefs.
95% of the founding fathers believed in God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. See the materials, books, and videos from Wallbuilder Publishers for historical documents on the Founding Fathers.
1830- Horace Mann got the State of Pennsylvania to begin a new state school program that did not have the Bible .
1870- The teaching of law begins to change and have its effect on public schools. Harvard Law School Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826-1906) applied Darwin's theory of evolution to law. Introduced the case-law method instead of the Constitution. Students studied the decisions of judges instead of the Constitution of the Founders. Students grew to become less and less aware of what the Founders said and more and more aware of what judges decided.
1870-1964, Roscoe Pound strengthened the ideas of Langdell, replacing him at Harvard Law School. Institutionalized "positivism", a kind of Darwinian theory of growing towards a goal by positive or forward steps of change and that positive change is necessary for society to evolve to its end form. So allowing changes in law. As the understanding of law was to change, so also would follow changes in the application of law to our school system.
1902- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. held that original intent and precedent held little value. Argued for thirty years that decisions should not be based upon natural law and its fixed standards but upon the felt necessities of the time and the prevalent political theories so that society could reach a social change to what men wanted.
1916- Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) urged the Court to be bold in leading society to change. He wanted the reason of men to be the ultimate rule, not the law of God nor the ideas of the Founders.
1930's - Blackstone's Commentaries on the Law widely discarded because it was absolute instead of relative. Relativism allowed for change. Relativism became a new term, more 'intellectual' for describing the positive changes needed for evolution of law and society. (the positivism of Roscoe Pound). Absolute values were discarded.
John Dewey1930's- John Dewey was an esteemed humanist. He was a prominent leader of new ideas in education. He wrote much on the effects of Darwin's theory of evolution on science, education, man and society. His premise can be summarized as saying that nothing is ultimately good in itself except positive change for the better. To this goal he rejected absolute values of God, the Bible, and men who believed in God.
Dewey's most positive value is positive change for the better. He was so recognized as a leader of new ideas concerning humanism ie synonym for socialism that he was invited to teach on establishing state schools for the betterment of the state. He taught in China at the University of Peking and in Turkey. Upon Dewey's return to California, he wrote an Americanized version of Karl Marx philosophies called "The Humanist Manifesto".
Dewey believed in the collective society like socialist of Russia and China being more important than any individualism. He views people as members of the larger society, to the exclusion of individual rights when the perceived needs of society would require the exclusion of personal rights. This thinking permeates the N.E.A today as a result of his works and others who followed in his footsteps. The state rights over individual rights is associated with the recent event in Pennsylvania where state authorities forced fifty young girls to be spread eagled on an examination table, for genital inspection, without parent's knowledge or consent. Such is the consequence of giving up individual rights to the state system.
1932- Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938), said there is no law to bind the judge. He took judge-made law as a reality of life. Americans will remember our Constitution says Congress makes laws and judges apply those fixed laws to various situations. But Justice Cardozo wanted to make new laws from the bench of the Supreme Court by decisions unbound by tradition or precedent. He condoned the Court functioning as law-maker by overturning precedents of generations of Americans.
1930-1941, Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) the Court's Chief Justice for eleven years said "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
1945-1953 - radical social change achieved by wide spread "positivists" or secular humanists.
1947- The new lawyer system of education, "positivism" or "secular humanism", ruled that schools could no longer teach Bible at school, only off campus, somewhere else! Everson Case.
1953- Earl Warren (1891-1974) became Chief-Justice and ruled for sixteen years.
1958- Earl Warren wrote, "The Constitutional Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society."
1953-1968, Warren's court struck down many traditional practices and proudly admitted doing it without legal precedent. The Court had "evolved" into something different from what the Founders designed it. The Court had become no longer a only a judge, but now it was the new law-maker! The court was now doing what by Constitutional authority only the Congress could do.
1962- School prayer struck down, Engel vs Vitale
1963- School Bible reading struck down, School District of Abington Township v. Schempp
1980- School display of Ten Commandments disallowed, Stone v. Graham
1985- School moment of silent time for prayer struck down, Wallace v. Jaffree
1989- Display of birth of Christ not allowed on public property, Allegheny v Pittsburg ACLU
1992- School graduation prayer struck down, Lee v. Weisman
1988- Hillary Rodham Clinton attends U.N. conference on world education in Thailand
1989 - Hillary and Vera Katz on board in New York, National Committee on Education and Economics
1991- Vera Katz as Mayor in Portland helps entire state of Oregon change to Goals 2000 system
1996- Twenty six states have programs of Goals 2000, Humanistic, New World Order economics driven system
1996 ---National Standards for History advises retraining and screening of teachers to only accept those who can adapt their attitudes to fit the new standards. This means those who are for the traditional and true history would be systematically excluded.
1996 Dr. Meno, Commissioner of Education, Texas says teachers need to be requalified according to conditions of the new set of goals. ie, exclude those who disagree with the new standards.
Interpretation by the editor, Larry Rice: Those educrats in the government system are glad to see big government standards take over education. You should want to place people in power who are agreement with William Bennett and who disagree with the Texas Education Commissioner.
1996 Texas Eagle Forum goes on the World Wide Web. Take a look at it! It is great.
SOCIALISM INTRODUCED STEP BY STEP INTO AMERICAN CULTURE
Both Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin said it could not happen that America would accept communism all at once. They knew that was impossible, but they also knew it was not necessary for it to happen all at once. They realized that a steady diet of little bitty morsels of socialism introduced into American society would eventually transform the whole system. The socialist planners were content to climb their mountain one little step at a time. They knew eventually the top would be reached. They realize that socialism is only a tiny step away from full communism.
These ideas and goals are being implemented right now in local books
1. Teach children's rights over parents rights.
2. Teach children to judge their parents. Hitler and Stalin did that.
3. Teach children how to begin changing their parents values. Remove esteem of parents from the children.
4. Teach what changes, teach the changes of people and society, with no reference to permanent values.
5. Teach the value of the new world system for the good of all men everywhere, one world under the U.N., but not under God.
6. Teach things that encourage belief in the psychic, occult, witchcraft, anything else but God.
7. Teach chaos instead of ordered systems.
8. Teach subjective values instead of any absolutes, especially don't teach the Ten Commandments, but instead tell them each person makes his own decisions of what is right and what is wrong.
9. Remove their connections to the roots of their own history, and they will wither and die as a nation.
10. Give more examples for children to follow of delinquency instead of obedient children.
11. Bring the children down to a level of the lowest street urchin without love of mother or father
12. Teach that the state has control over the children instead of the God given parents.
13. Removal of good role model's. By excluding references and explanations of Christian motivation from those famous deeds of America's historical great men, children are robbed of those good role models. When those men are characterized as deists and profit seekers their motives are misrepresented to the children. Children learn what they see. What a shame that so many people teach or believe our founding fathers were deists and established this country for economic gain. What a shameful revision of history it is to call Patrick Henry a deist. He recorded for all history a denial of deism and his affirmation of Jesus Christ.
Joseph Stalin said he didn't have to defeat us in gun warfare. He could do it through our children. He would poison their minds against God and family. Through educational system and tv the forces of socialism would invade the youth of America and destroy it from its roots. Then socialism would rule the world. That was Joseph Stalin's dream. That was his goal. America, it is up to you whether you will mock or take heed. The atheistic goals were first made public by the threat of communism, but are now hiding under the mask of Humanism. See the article on Two Views of the World found on the page for Graduating Seniors in the topic list.
Join the battle which has been declared. It is a battle for your children. It is your battle to fight, to win. When Jonah preached to Ninevah he declared the soon coming destruction. Jonah didn't make any if's and's or but's. He plainly said because of your sins, destruction is coming. That's the way it is in America today. There are many who have written about the decline and fall of America. I'm just showing the details of how the children are being affected. It's happening.
The ax has been laid to the very roots of our Constitution. The Supreme Court now makes laws. Not only does it make laws, it overthrows those which have existed for generations upon generations of Americans and calls them unconstitutional. Why? Because of the new morality that says, the end justifies the means, and if it seems good do it. And no man stood strong enough to stop that encroachment when it happened.
The Founders would have denied what the Warren Court did on the grounds of Treason. Why Treason? Because the Founders believed that whosoever attacked the strength and education of Christianity attacked this great nation which was founded on the principles of Christianity. It's OK to exercise free speech on the streets if one wants to attack Christianity, but it is High Treason for a judge to throw down laws that were established to protect Christian education according to individual faith of Americans.
The Socialist minded judges took a bold stroke at our roots and they got away with it. No one impeached them for Treason. Under the power of Mass Media, the public was given opium of "it's all for the good of the nation", and they sat back in their false humility and failed to stand up for Right
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009
PURPOSE OF EDUCATION
Encyclopedia Britannica of 1952 says the purpose of education is to raise up children to follow in their parents traditions with good success.
Parents in all societies want their children to have the same values as themselves.
What happens when people with different beliefs teach the children?
If the king of England could control the teaching in Russia, wouldn't he try to have subtle teachings to change the children?
The Russians clearly stated they wanted to change the way children in America were taught, even before World War II.
Clearly, each power wants to teach children according to their ways of thinking.
The great question is who will be in control of teaching children, the parents or the central government ?
Notice in all changes of power, the new conqueror tends to purge (murder or imprison) the previous leading thinkers of the conquered society.
Consider the man who saw his child grow up to have totally different values than his own. It alienates members of the family.
By 1998 The World Book encyclopedia said some of the main purpose of schools today was to replace what parents were no longer doing for their children, to give them guidance and values. The new system of federal government schools did not begin until 1948 when the foolish Supreme Court removed Bible classes from school campus. Centralized control of our schools was further strengthened when LBJ established the U.S. Dept. of Education. Remember, from 1620 till 1960, there was no provision for centralized control over schools. The federal government was not originally intended to teach our children.
If the king of England could have controlled what schools taught, the Magna Charter would never have been gained by the people of England.
Instead, the king would have taught all the children to be totally submissive to the king and all his wishes.
Early American settlers well knew the importance of training up their children, and the effects of outside influences contrary to their own beliefs.
That's why they left England for Holland, and Holland for America.
TRADITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF A GOOD SCHOOL
Whatever the ways of living are, each society wants its children to fit into the society of the parents. The children are expected to carry on the values and ideas of their parents.
Schools are expected to give children the tools they need to earn a living.
That has been the traditional understanding of a good education.
The American Indians wanted their children to learn to hunt and ride a horse and worship the great spirit. They failed in their raising of children according to their culture and their culture is evaporated away. The Moslems want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way. The atheists want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way; not only their own children, but they try to teach everyone else's children too!
Atheists are effectually doing a more active job of evangelism to their way of thinking than are the Christians.
Consider the schools and what is taught and what is omitted.
Scripture says, It is an abomination for the righteous to fall down before those who do not believe, but that is what has happened in the public schools of this land. Proverbs 25:26
Prov 29:2 ...when the unbelievers rule the schools, the people mourn for the fruit in their off-spring
HUMANISM is just another word for atheism. It began in the garden of Eden when the serpent deceived Eve into ignoring God and believing that her own knowledge of good and evil would make her like her own god.
The humanists have a written agenda, nationally published, for many years, to destroy the traditional Christian faith from children in school. They claim to be winning the battle in the classrooms. The humanists have gained so much control over what is being taught and how it is being taught that the children are being won over to their philosophies at a greater and greater rate. That rate is rapidly accelerating.
The people in political and economic power who are willing to invest their time and efforts and resources to raising up a generation of children to fit their own society are mostly the humanists. Look at how the local Lutheran school had to close its doors because of lack of support. Look at how the children of Christian parents don't know even the Ten Commandments, but they do know many tenets of Humanism as a way of belief. Then ask who is working harder to mold the minds of children?
Remember the purpose of education is to train up children in the way that you want them to be. Training is a process over time. What training is your child getting five days a week that fit with the way God has commanded all who believe in Him to raise up their children?
I'll name a few omissions:
The child is not being taught to keep God in all his thoughts, but what makes him happy..
The child is not being taught to base his decisions on the word of God, but on how he feels.
The child is not being taught right and wrong so much as he is being taught to choose what he likes.
The child is not being taught that his parents respect the commandments of God enough to have them posted in the child's school, but he is being taught that Sunday is a time for going to church and the rest of the week is for doing what makes you feel good about yourself.
He is not being taught to make any comparisons or references to the Bible for his essays in school.
He is being taught to depend entirely upon the world, himself, and the like for all his choices.
He is being taught that even though the Bible says one thing, his parents and most other parents, and even the preachers are content to let the schools do something else with their children.
How can the child take scripture seriously when the libraries paid for by his parents are filled with Goosebump books of horror, occult books, humanism books, and philosophies of men take priority over the Bible?
The child is being trained to think for himself, without reference to God, in all he does at school.
I desire that the children be trained to look to God for wisdom in understanding all things.
I believe early Christians understood that. May we return to our first love.
I want a school for my kids, that teaches them the way I believe. That's exactly the same definition that the atheists give. They too want a school for their kids that teaches them the way they believe.
How do you want your child trained five days a week? To consider God and the truth of God, or to ignore the TRUTH except on Sunday? Do not think that one day a week for one hour on that day can make up for ignoring the truth on the other six days.
Reading, writing, arithmetic, and history are the tools we give our children to carry on the values we have established for them.
Please notice that I did say, the values we have established for them! Some background scripture refers to the blind leading the blind with inference that it is not good. And another says, a child left to his own devices will come to no good. So I say, it is good for the parents to teach the children and not leave the children to derive their own values. My child has some liberty to choose his own desire in some things, but not in the foundational truths which are recorded in holy scripture. My child is not free to decide for himself whether or not he wants to obey me. He will learn to obey me or he will be punished. That is how I teach him to obey me. Punishment has a broad latitude for being light or severe, depending on the disobedience. My point is, the child learns the basics from me. The father and mother are the root of what the child learns.
A good school system for Christian parents is one that does nothing contrary to the Christian values of those parents. In 1997 it is evident that too often schools are giving the children ideas that are contrary to traditional Christian values. Such brain washing begins as early as Kindergarten.
Where the school has gone astray from traditional values, the school must be returned to the values of the parents, or else the parents and the children will suffer the consequences.
Early American schools taught values of the parents in the local neighborhood. In 1997 we have schools teaching the values of ivory tower psychologists thousands of miles away. Many Christian parents have pulled their children out of public schools for these reasons of incompatibility. How can two walk together unless they be agreed. The schools are not acting in agreement with the values of Christian parents.
Wake up to the impact that five days a week presentations of information void of God has on your children. Five days a week of godless references to humanistic ideas that are contrary to the Truth.
WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EDUCATION SYSTEMS
1. "Education" is a work that molds a child. They are being molded to rely on 'higher critical thinking' instead of any hope in God. The help of His Spirit is being ignored consistently five days a week in the school training given to your children. His divine Providence as referred to in the Declaration of Independence is omitted. Your children are being conditioned to trust in the world system. Can you ignore this?
2. The goal of education is usually to produce results that are friendly to those doing the teaching. A system that denies God is shaping the teaching of your child. Guess what the goals of that system are!
3. The first essential for successful education is that the whole community have a true understanding of the nature and goal of education.
4. Plato said the aim of education is "to develop in body and soul all the beauty and perfection of which they are capable.
Individual beauty and perfection are shown in living in your circumstances of time, place, culture, religion, national or community aspirations, and MASTERY OVER MATERIAL CONDITIONS. Or as the Bible puts it, Faith without works is dead. Let ours who have believed also learn to maintain good works that they be not unfruitful.
The beliefs and outlooks of a community will affect the character of the education it gives to its children. Our children are learning by example that the Bible and what it says is very insignificant, only to be mentioned sometimes on Sunday or carried to Sunday school for extra credits.
Spencer said, that if we give children the knowledge which is "of most worth" ---that is the knowledge which has indispensable practical value in regulating the affairs of life--- we shall at the same time be giving them the best possible mental training; for it is incredible that the pursuit of the best kind of knowledge should not also afford the best mental discipline
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Parents in all societies want their children to have the same values as themselves.
What happens when people with different beliefs teach the children?
If the king of England could control the teaching in Russia, wouldn't he try to have subtle teachings to change the children?
The Russians clearly stated they wanted to change the way children in America were taught, even before World War II.
Clearly, each power wants to teach children according to their ways of thinking.
The great question is who will be in control of teaching children, the parents or the central government ?
Notice in all changes of power, the new conqueror tends to purge (murder or imprison) the previous leading thinkers of the conquered society.
Consider the man who saw his child grow up to have totally different values than his own. It alienates members of the family.
By 1998 The World Book encyclopedia said some of the main purpose of schools today was to replace what parents were no longer doing for their children, to give them guidance and values. The new system of federal government schools did not begin until 1948 when the foolish Supreme Court removed Bible classes from school campus. Centralized control of our schools was further strengthened when LBJ established the U.S. Dept. of Education. Remember, from 1620 till 1960, there was no provision for centralized control over schools. The federal government was not originally intended to teach our children.
If the king of England could have controlled what schools taught, the Magna Charter would never have been gained by the people of England.
Instead, the king would have taught all the children to be totally submissive to the king and all his wishes.
Early American settlers well knew the importance of training up their children, and the effects of outside influences contrary to their own beliefs.
That's why they left England for Holland, and Holland for America.
TRADITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF A GOOD SCHOOL
Whatever the ways of living are, each society wants its children to fit into the society of the parents. The children are expected to carry on the values and ideas of their parents.
Schools are expected to give children the tools they need to earn a living.
That has been the traditional understanding of a good education.
The American Indians wanted their children to learn to hunt and ride a horse and worship the great spirit. They failed in their raising of children according to their culture and their culture is evaporated away. The Moslems want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way. The atheists want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way; not only their own children, but they try to teach everyone else's children too!
Atheists are effectually doing a more active job of evangelism to their way of thinking than are the Christians.
Consider the schools and what is taught and what is omitted.
Scripture says, It is an abomination for the righteous to fall down before those who do not believe, but that is what has happened in the public schools of this land. Proverbs 25:26
Prov 29:2 ...when the unbelievers rule the schools, the people mourn for the fruit in their off-spring
HUMANISM is just another word for atheism. It began in the garden of Eden when the serpent deceived Eve into ignoring God and believing that her own knowledge of good and evil would make her like her own god.
The humanists have a written agenda, nationally published, for many years, to destroy the traditional Christian faith from children in school. They claim to be winning the battle in the classrooms. The humanists have gained so much control over what is being taught and how it is being taught that the children are being won over to their philosophies at a greater and greater rate. That rate is rapidly accelerating.
The people in political and economic power who are willing to invest their time and efforts and resources to raising up a generation of children to fit their own society are mostly the humanists. Look at how the local Lutheran school had to close its doors because of lack of support. Look at how the children of Christian parents don't know even the Ten Commandments, but they do know many tenets of Humanism as a way of belief. Then ask who is working harder to mold the minds of children?
Remember the purpose of education is to train up children in the way that you want them to be. Training is a process over time. What training is your child getting five days a week that fit with the way God has commanded all who believe in Him to raise up their children?
I'll name a few omissions:
The child is not being taught to keep God in all his thoughts, but what makes him happy..
The child is not being taught to base his decisions on the word of God, but on how he feels.
The child is not being taught right and wrong so much as he is being taught to choose what he likes.
The child is not being taught that his parents respect the commandments of God enough to have them posted in the child's school, but he is being taught that Sunday is a time for going to church and the rest of the week is for doing what makes you feel good about yourself.
He is not being taught to make any comparisons or references to the Bible for his essays in school.
He is being taught to depend entirely upon the world, himself, and the like for all his choices.
He is being taught that even though the Bible says one thing, his parents and most other parents, and even the preachers are content to let the schools do something else with their children.
How can the child take scripture seriously when the libraries paid for by his parents are filled with Goosebump books of horror, occult books, humanism books, and philosophies of men take priority over the Bible?
The child is being trained to think for himself, without reference to God, in all he does at school.
I desire that the children be trained to look to God for wisdom in understanding all things.
I believe early Christians understood that. May we return to our first love.
I want a school for my kids, that teaches them the way I believe. That's exactly the same definition that the atheists give. They too want a school for their kids that teaches them the way they believe.
How do you want your child trained five days a week? To consider God and the truth of God, or to ignore the TRUTH except on Sunday? Do not think that one day a week for one hour on that day can make up for ignoring the truth on the other six days.
Reading, writing, arithmetic, and history are the tools we give our children to carry on the values we have established for them.
Please notice that I did say, the values we have established for them! Some background scripture refers to the blind leading the blind with inference that it is not good. And another says, a child left to his own devices will come to no good. So I say, it is good for the parents to teach the children and not leave the children to derive their own values. My child has some liberty to choose his own desire in some things, but not in the foundational truths which are recorded in holy scripture. My child is not free to decide for himself whether or not he wants to obey me. He will learn to obey me or he will be punished. That is how I teach him to obey me. Punishment has a broad latitude for being light or severe, depending on the disobedience. My point is, the child learns the basics from me. The father and mother are the root of what the child learns.
A good school system for Christian parents is one that does nothing contrary to the Christian values of those parents. In 1997 it is evident that too often schools are giving the children ideas that are contrary to traditional Christian values. Such brain washing begins as early as Kindergarten.
Where the school has gone astray from traditional values, the school must be returned to the values of the parents, or else the parents and the children will suffer the consequences.
Early American schools taught values of the parents in the local neighborhood. In 1997 we have schools teaching the values of ivory tower psychologists thousands of miles away. Many Christian parents have pulled their children out of public schools for these reasons of incompatibility. How can two walk together unless they be agreed. The schools are not acting in agreement with the values of Christian parents.
Wake up to the impact that five days a week presentations of information void of God has on your children. Five days a week of godless references to humanistic ideas that are contrary to the Truth.
WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EDUCATION SYSTEMS
1. "Education" is a work that molds a child. They are being molded to rely on 'higher critical thinking' instead of any hope in God. The help of His Spirit is being ignored consistently five days a week in the school training given to your children. His divine Providence as referred to in the Declaration of Independence is omitted. Your children are being conditioned to trust in the world system. Can you ignore this?
2. The goal of education is usually to produce results that are friendly to those doing the teaching. A system that denies God is shaping the teaching of your child. Guess what the goals of that system are!
3. The first essential for successful education is that the whole community have a true understanding of the nature and goal of education.
4. Plato said the aim of education is "to develop in body and soul all the beauty and perfection of which they are capable.
Individual beauty and perfection are shown in living in your circumstances of time, place, culture, religion, national or community aspirations, and MASTERY OVER MATERIAL CONDITIONS. Or as the Bible puts it, Faith without works is dead. Let ours who have believed also learn to maintain good works that they be not unfruitful.
The beliefs and outlooks of a community will affect the character of the education it gives to its children. Our children are learning by example that the Bible and what it says is very insignificant, only to be mentioned sometimes on Sunday or carried to Sunday school for extra credits.
Spencer said, that if we give children the knowledge which is "of most worth" ---that is the knowledge which has indispensable practical value in regulating the affairs of life--- we shall at the same time be giving them the best possible mental training; for it is incredible that the pursuit of the best kind of knowledge should not also afford the best mental discipline
WORST ENEMY OF CHRISTIAN CHILDREN Is not dope or pornography
The worst enemy of Christian parents is the one that is fighting against the faith of their children and they don't even know how it is happening. It is happening through the schools and the mass media. It's not the schools, they're just government entities. It's what's being taught through and in the schools by experience every day. The lack of Christian parent awareness makes it easy for the enemy of our soul to bite children in public places. Places such as McDonnalds put demonic eyed dragons to look at children while they eat breakfast, lunch, and supper. This conditions children to acceptance of evil eyed looks and even associates it with good feelings of food and family togetherness. And which pastor spoke up against this to warn his flock? From pre-school through graduation, children are bombarded with pictures of ape-men teaching against God's creation. Compromise is taught as the great democratic value for Americans to hold instead of faith toward God and standing for His truth. We are not fighting a battle for worldly things, but we are fighting a battle for the eternal soul of our children and the rise or continued decline of America.
Who will teach your children's children? Will you give the training of your children over to a teacher who reads MURDER IN THE DOLLHOUSE to third graders instead of something that gives life? You, dear parent, are responsible for what you allow to be fed to your child's mind and heart. A single seed planted can become a rotten harvest a few years later. Guard the garden of your child's heart and mind. Guard it well for God has promoted you, the father and mother, to protect and nurture your child. You are responsible for whom you give authority to train your child.
Children of Christian parents know how to reject the enticements of dope and vice. But children don't know enough to reject ideas taught to them in public school when those ideas sound good on the surface but are founded on ideas contrary to Christian faith.
You, dear parent, give your authority to the school to train up your child. That child knows the school has been approved by most parents. Therefore what ever the school says is the way things are. The school takes on an authority bigger than the parent to some children. And when school feeds ideas contrary to parent's values, that family is in for conflicts.
The worst enemy of Christian children is not dope or pornography. Christian parents have taught their children to reject those things which are obvious. Their worst enemy is attacking them with subtle poisons of humanism. Like the serpent in the garden telling Eve she didn't need God because she could do it herself.
Subtle deceptions are even sneakier today. Library books, short one day courses, assignments outside of the text book, special projects and many more ways are used to teach things other than reading writing and arithmetic. Massive support is given by colorful posters on school hallways and classroom walls to many values contrary to godliness. Teachings that are not listed in the curriculum guides, but teachings that are increasingly happening in schools because of the increasing disregard for Truth.
The school is being used to feed poisonous ideas contrary to Christianity. The Bible was not just taken out of school, it was replaced with another religion called Humanism. Why don't more parents know this?
School is being used to condition them to shallow thinking instead of deep thinking.
School is teaching the answers instead of leading them to understand.
School is being used to train them that all kinds of evil can be acceptable.
Schools are teaching philosophies of men and ignoring the scripture of life. and teaches them that evil is good.that which they can't see as attacking them. Their worst enemy is the one who feeds them daily with a meal of information authorized by their own parents but the cook has put some arsenic in the meal. And the parents don't know it, and the children think its great stuff. Public schools are now training up children in the religion of humanism. Approved by the silence of parents and pastors alike, the school system is winning the battle for the minds of children being indoctrinated with philosophies of men contrary to God's word.
If any man sees a sin and bewrays it not, he is partaker thereof. All those people who have kept their silence must repent. All those who see the evil and will not tell others for fear of their job or their pension must now tell it like it is. It is a sin not to warn Christian parents how children are being fed contrary values through public schools.
Christian training of children is part of the purpose of this site. Understanding for parents and pastors can be found here. This site also opens many doors to similar places around the country.
Atheists are laughing at Christian parents behind a mask of humanism, as the atheists train up children the way they want them in public schools. Christianity has not just been taken out of school, but it was also replaced with the values called Humanism. Differences between humanist values and Christian training of children are listed here.
Parents and pastors must study to know the problem, to recognize the serpent that is biting their children. John 3:14.Then steps can be taken to remove the poison and heal the children. There is help in Christ for those who will know the truth. Otherwise, the children will continue getting stronger doses of philosophies of men contrary to Godly teaching, that can cost their eternal soul.
Scripture says God's own people are destroyed for their lack of knowledge, and the war colleges agree by teaching that your worst enemy is the one you don't recognize, the one who fakes you out.
Dopers and gangs are not the worst enemy of your children because children can see them coming. The worst enemy of children today is in the public school where lifestyles contrary to Christianity are trained into the children. Parents give their authority to schools when they send children to school. So the children accept everything taught to them at school as from an authority even higher than their own parents! There is a clear contrast between Humanist values trained in our schools and the values of Christian parents, but few pastors have taught the people about those differences. Even fewer parents know enough to recognize those differences. Yet those differences are the downfall of America, and the increase of crime. Special short courses taught by visiting people, unlisted on the curriculum guide, have been terribly offensive to Christian values.
When parents send children to school, a transfer and approval of authority happens. Christian parents don't realize that atheists are laughing behind a mask of humanistic teaching. Atheists, also called humanists, say the battle for hearts of children is being won in the public school classroom over the rotting corpse of Christianity.
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Who will teach your children's children? Will you give the training of your children over to a teacher who reads MURDER IN THE DOLLHOUSE to third graders instead of something that gives life? You, dear parent, are responsible for what you allow to be fed to your child's mind and heart. A single seed planted can become a rotten harvest a few years later. Guard the garden of your child's heart and mind. Guard it well for God has promoted you, the father and mother, to protect and nurture your child. You are responsible for whom you give authority to train your child.
Children of Christian parents know how to reject the enticements of dope and vice. But children don't know enough to reject ideas taught to them in public school when those ideas sound good on the surface but are founded on ideas contrary to Christian faith.
You, dear parent, give your authority to the school to train up your child. That child knows the school has been approved by most parents. Therefore what ever the school says is the way things are. The school takes on an authority bigger than the parent to some children. And when school feeds ideas contrary to parent's values, that family is in for conflicts.
The worst enemy of Christian children is not dope or pornography. Christian parents have taught their children to reject those things which are obvious. Their worst enemy is attacking them with subtle poisons of humanism. Like the serpent in the garden telling Eve she didn't need God because she could do it herself.
Subtle deceptions are even sneakier today. Library books, short one day courses, assignments outside of the text book, special projects and many more ways are used to teach things other than reading writing and arithmetic. Massive support is given by colorful posters on school hallways and classroom walls to many values contrary to godliness. Teachings that are not listed in the curriculum guides, but teachings that are increasingly happening in schools because of the increasing disregard for Truth.
The school is being used to feed poisonous ideas contrary to Christianity. The Bible was not just taken out of school, it was replaced with another religion called Humanism. Why don't more parents know this?
School is being used to condition them to shallow thinking instead of deep thinking.
School is teaching the answers instead of leading them to understand.
School is being used to train them that all kinds of evil can be acceptable.
Schools are teaching philosophies of men and ignoring the scripture of life. and teaches them that evil is good.that which they can't see as attacking them. Their worst enemy is the one who feeds them daily with a meal of information authorized by their own parents but the cook has put some arsenic in the meal. And the parents don't know it, and the children think its great stuff. Public schools are now training up children in the religion of humanism. Approved by the silence of parents and pastors alike, the school system is winning the battle for the minds of children being indoctrinated with philosophies of men contrary to God's word.
If any man sees a sin and bewrays it not, he is partaker thereof. All those people who have kept their silence must repent. All those who see the evil and will not tell others for fear of their job or their pension must now tell it like it is. It is a sin not to warn Christian parents how children are being fed contrary values through public schools.
Christian training of children is part of the purpose of this site. Understanding for parents and pastors can be found here. This site also opens many doors to similar places around the country.
Atheists are laughing at Christian parents behind a mask of humanism, as the atheists train up children the way they want them in public schools. Christianity has not just been taken out of school, but it was also replaced with the values called Humanism. Differences between humanist values and Christian training of children are listed here.
Parents and pastors must study to know the problem, to recognize the serpent that is biting their children. John 3:14.Then steps can be taken to remove the poison and heal the children. There is help in Christ for those who will know the truth. Otherwise, the children will continue getting stronger doses of philosophies of men contrary to Godly teaching, that can cost their eternal soul.
Scripture says God's own people are destroyed for their lack of knowledge, and the war colleges agree by teaching that your worst enemy is the one you don't recognize, the one who fakes you out.
Dopers and gangs are not the worst enemy of your children because children can see them coming. The worst enemy of children today is in the public school where lifestyles contrary to Christianity are trained into the children. Parents give their authority to schools when they send children to school. So the children accept everything taught to them at school as from an authority even higher than their own parents! There is a clear contrast between Humanist values trained in our schools and the values of Christian parents, but few pastors have taught the people about those differences. Even fewer parents know enough to recognize those differences. Yet those differences are the downfall of America, and the increase of crime. Special short courses taught by visiting people, unlisted on the curriculum guide, have been terribly offensive to Christian values.
When parents send children to school, a transfer and approval of authority happens. Christian parents don't realize that atheists are laughing behind a mask of humanistic teaching. Atheists, also called humanists, say the battle for hearts of children is being won in the public school classroom over the rotting corpse of Christianity.
TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SEND YOUR CHILD TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
The Christian school movement is the fastest growing educational movement in America today. The U.S.NEWS AND WORLD REPORT and CHRISTIAN LIFE magazines have referred to the rapid proliferation of Christian elementary and secondary schools as the "Boom in Protestant Schools" and "The Christian School Explosion." Christian schools are currently being established across the United States at the rate of two new schools a day.
In California we average one new Christian school each week. Obviously parents by the thousands have opted to send their youngsters to Christian schools as opposed to secular public schools. As a parent who sends my children to Christian schools and speaks to thousands of parents on the radio and on tour, permit me to share ten reasons why you should send your children to Christian schools:
ONE: You are accountable to God for what your children are taught in school. Proverbs 22:6 is a direct command to parents. It says, "Train up a child in the way he should go..." What your children are taught in school should be a direct extension of your parental views. The teachers under whom your children are taught should be the kind of teachers you would personally hire if your children were being educated in your home.
TWO: Christian schools offer a better level of instruction. There is no question about it. The test scores over a long period of years are conclusive. The annual Stanford Achievement Test administered to first through eighth grade Christian school students in the western states shows these students to be seven to nineteen months ahead of the national norm in reading, and seven to thirteen months ahead of the national norm in all subject areas.
THREE: The Bible does not teach that children should be exposed to all kinds of sin. We are to train "up" a child, not point him downward. Children do not grow spiritually stronger in a negative non-Christian environment.
Students do not become stronger Christians by being taught non-Christian thinking, but by being taught Christian thinking, and there is no such person as a "neutral" school teacher who neither advances nor inhibits religion. School represents 16% of your child's time. It is prime time, a training time, and Christian school education represents a positive Bible- centered form of instruction that will build a child up in the faith- -not tear him down. Proverbs 19:27 says, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
FOUR: The Christian school is right for your child because the Christian school has not cut itself off from the most important book in the world--the Bible. Without the Bible, education is nothing more than the blind leading the blind. Standards for morality must be taken from Scripture alone, not from situations as often taught in secular schools. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, "To train a man in mind and not in morals is to train a menace to society."
FIVE: The Christian school provides an opportunity for your child to witness for Christ. This surprises some people because they assume all students in a Christian school are Christians. In most cases a majority are Christian; however, in every Christian school there are always some students who need the Savior. Christian students are trained and encouraged to reach these youngsters for Jesus Christ. Witnessing in a Christian school has the support of parents, students, teachers, administration and the school board. Presenting Christ as Savior is not illegal in a Christian school.
SIX: Christian school educators teach all subject matter from a Christian context. They put the Bible at the center of the curriculum and ask students to evaluate all they see in the world through the eyes of God. To quote Dr. Roy Zuck,
The secular vs. Christian school issue is really a question of whether a child will learn to view life from man's perspective or God's perspective. From man's viewpoint, history is purposeless; from God's viewpoint, history has meaning. From man's viewpoint, science is the laws of "nature" at work; from God's viewpoint, science is the outworking of His laws.
In a Christian school, a student is exposed to the centrality of God in all of life. In public education, a student is legally "sheltered" from this important dimension of education.
SEVEN: Christian schools support the family as the number one institution of society. Christian school educators train students to respect their parents. These educators agree with the early American patriot, Noah Webster, who said, "All government originates in families, and if neglected there, it will hardly exist in society."
EIGHT: "The atheists have, for all practical purposes, taken over public education in this country." Shocking words, yes, but they were spoken by a prominent public school educator, Dr. W.P.Schofstall, former Arizona State Superintendent of Schools. Paradoxically, many public school personnel openly support Christian school education.
As a matter of fact, the largest group of parents who send their children to Christian schools are public school teachers and principals. I conducted a nationwide survey among these public school educators. The following statement is typical of the responses I received:
I prefer to send my children to a Christian school because Christ is central to all information taught and caught. The public school is basically humanistic and materialistic in its approach to life and the fundamental questions of human existence and purpose. The Christian school holds a unique position with the home and the church.
NINE: Christian school educators maintain discipline in the classroom and on the playground. Without a reasonable standard of discipline, the process of education is severely hampered. "For whom the Lord loves, He disciplines..." the Bible teaches. And it is within that context of love that discipline is carried out in a Christian school. This important feature of education is rapidly disappearing from the public school education. According to the recent GALLUP POLL OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS EDUCATION,
Lack of discipline in the public schools again heads the list of problems cited most often by survey respondents. Discipline has, in fact, been named the number one problem of the schools in seven of the last eight years. New evidence of its importance comes from the special survey of high school juniors and seniors. An even higher percentage of this group names discipline as the leading problem faced by the public school.
TEN: "We believe that our children are gifts of the Lord. We are responsible to train them according to His Word not only at home and in church, but in school as well." This statement was made by a parent in response to a question on an application form for enrollment of his children at Delaware County Christian School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
More and more parents, especially Christian parents, are coming to the conclusion that secular public education and most of its teachers and principals no longer represent their personal parental views. These parents are exercising their freedom of choice and sending their children to Christian schools and colleges.
Note: The first chapter of this book has over the past two years been published in newspapers and national magazines for a total circulation of more than one million copies. It first appeared in 1975 in Dr. Clyde Narramore's magazine PSYCHOLOGY FOR LIVING. Then Dr. Jerry Falwell secured permission to publish it in his national publication FAITH AFLAME.
It appeared later in several denominational publications and a variety of newspapers. Because of its wide circulation I do not claim copyright. This of course does not pertain to the remaining chapters. Most chapters of this book have appeared in recent issues of a one page publication called CHRISTIAN SCHOOL COMMENT. They were originally written with this book in mind. Each chapter has been updated, rewritten and rearranged to fit the sequential needs of this volume.
by Paul A. Kienel
In California we average one new Christian school each week. Obviously parents by the thousands have opted to send their youngsters to Christian schools as opposed to secular public schools. As a parent who sends my children to Christian schools and speaks to thousands of parents on the radio and on tour, permit me to share ten reasons why you should send your children to Christian schools:
ONE: You are accountable to God for what your children are taught in school. Proverbs 22:6 is a direct command to parents. It says, "Train up a child in the way he should go..." What your children are taught in school should be a direct extension of your parental views. The teachers under whom your children are taught should be the kind of teachers you would personally hire if your children were being educated in your home.
TWO: Christian schools offer a better level of instruction. There is no question about it. The test scores over a long period of years are conclusive. The annual Stanford Achievement Test administered to first through eighth grade Christian school students in the western states shows these students to be seven to nineteen months ahead of the national norm in reading, and seven to thirteen months ahead of the national norm in all subject areas.
THREE: The Bible does not teach that children should be exposed to all kinds of sin. We are to train "up" a child, not point him downward. Children do not grow spiritually stronger in a negative non-Christian environment.
Students do not become stronger Christians by being taught non-Christian thinking, but by being taught Christian thinking, and there is no such person as a "neutral" school teacher who neither advances nor inhibits religion. School represents 16% of your child's time. It is prime time, a training time, and Christian school education represents a positive Bible- centered form of instruction that will build a child up in the faith- -not tear him down. Proverbs 19:27 says, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
FOUR: The Christian school is right for your child because the Christian school has not cut itself off from the most important book in the world--the Bible. Without the Bible, education is nothing more than the blind leading the blind. Standards for morality must be taken from Scripture alone, not from situations as often taught in secular schools. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, "To train a man in mind and not in morals is to train a menace to society."
FIVE: The Christian school provides an opportunity for your child to witness for Christ. This surprises some people because they assume all students in a Christian school are Christians. In most cases a majority are Christian; however, in every Christian school there are always some students who need the Savior. Christian students are trained and encouraged to reach these youngsters for Jesus Christ. Witnessing in a Christian school has the support of parents, students, teachers, administration and the school board. Presenting Christ as Savior is not illegal in a Christian school.
SIX: Christian school educators teach all subject matter from a Christian context. They put the Bible at the center of the curriculum and ask students to evaluate all they see in the world through the eyes of God. To quote Dr. Roy Zuck,
The secular vs. Christian school issue is really a question of whether a child will learn to view life from man's perspective or God's perspective. From man's viewpoint, history is purposeless; from God's viewpoint, history has meaning. From man's viewpoint, science is the laws of "nature" at work; from God's viewpoint, science is the outworking of His laws.
In a Christian school, a student is exposed to the centrality of God in all of life. In public education, a student is legally "sheltered" from this important dimension of education.
SEVEN: Christian schools support the family as the number one institution of society. Christian school educators train students to respect their parents. These educators agree with the early American patriot, Noah Webster, who said, "All government originates in families, and if neglected there, it will hardly exist in society."
EIGHT: "The atheists have, for all practical purposes, taken over public education in this country." Shocking words, yes, but they were spoken by a prominent public school educator, Dr. W.P.Schofstall, former Arizona State Superintendent of Schools. Paradoxically, many public school personnel openly support Christian school education.
As a matter of fact, the largest group of parents who send their children to Christian schools are public school teachers and principals. I conducted a nationwide survey among these public school educators. The following statement is typical of the responses I received:
I prefer to send my children to a Christian school because Christ is central to all information taught and caught. The public school is basically humanistic and materialistic in its approach to life and the fundamental questions of human existence and purpose. The Christian school holds a unique position with the home and the church.
NINE: Christian school educators maintain discipline in the classroom and on the playground. Without a reasonable standard of discipline, the process of education is severely hampered. "For whom the Lord loves, He disciplines..." the Bible teaches. And it is within that context of love that discipline is carried out in a Christian school. This important feature of education is rapidly disappearing from the public school education. According to the recent GALLUP POLL OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS EDUCATION,
Lack of discipline in the public schools again heads the list of problems cited most often by survey respondents. Discipline has, in fact, been named the number one problem of the schools in seven of the last eight years. New evidence of its importance comes from the special survey of high school juniors and seniors. An even higher percentage of this group names discipline as the leading problem faced by the public school.
TEN: "We believe that our children are gifts of the Lord. We are responsible to train them according to His Word not only at home and in church, but in school as well." This statement was made by a parent in response to a question on an application form for enrollment of his children at Delaware County Christian School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
More and more parents, especially Christian parents, are coming to the conclusion that secular public education and most of its teachers and principals no longer represent their personal parental views. These parents are exercising their freedom of choice and sending their children to Christian schools and colleges.
Note: The first chapter of this book has over the past two years been published in newspapers and national magazines for a total circulation of more than one million copies. It first appeared in 1975 in Dr. Clyde Narramore's magazine PSYCHOLOGY FOR LIVING. Then Dr. Jerry Falwell secured permission to publish it in his national publication FAITH AFLAME.
It appeared later in several denominational publications and a variety of newspapers. Because of its wide circulation I do not claim copyright. This of course does not pertain to the remaining chapters. Most chapters of this book have appeared in recent issues of a one page publication called CHRISTIAN SCHOOL COMMENT. They were originally written with this book in mind. Each chapter has been updated, rewritten and rearranged to fit the sequential needs of this volume.
by Paul A. Kienel
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