. The reformed doctrine of the ”Priesthood of Believers” greatly influenced the formation of American education. Individual responsibility was seen as essential, and discipline in morals, acuteness of intellect, firmness of purpose, and conscientiousness to duty were imperative. Much of this was strongly influenced by the reformed focus—each individual ...

From the Christian perspective we are called to find the Lord Jesus Christ as a vital part of education, and this does not contradict with secular education.  The separation of the church and state does not threaten true learning in Christ.   It is a life that stands not from the ...

All differ and learn differently in various degrees. Education is beyond educational formulas and standards.  It is more than learning. The Bible states in the last days, they shall be “ever learning, and never able to come to knowledge of the truth.”  It is learning to put it all together. A ...

. A teacher at a school that had to shut down twice in one week because of bomb scares expressed her frustration about having to use her planning time three days a week for thirty minutes at a time to sit in the hallway to see who went in ...

There is a Texas textbook shootout!  The Lone Star State is one of the top textbook buyers and it influences sales worldwide.   Barry Lynn, a church-state separation advocate said:  “Of the biggest, most important fronts now are curriculum battles in Texas and indeed around the country because the next generation ...

. Concluding the classical educational philosophy book, Doctrines of the Great Educators, Robert Rusk in the final chapter, The Twentieth Century, closes with the statement:  “As Sir Fred Clarke put it, all educational philosophies fall into two groups, according to whether the philosopher does or does not ...

. American history was once a vital part of American schools.  However, it has been increasingly shifted to a more minor role. It has been argued that we are neglecting the historical in seeking to stress math and science.  In the 1940s and 1950s, American history was very important. ...

Since its birth in 1983, there has been a great exodus from the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), the largest Presbyterian denomination.  The PCUSA leadership has put less stress on the evangelical message and more on the political message, and on social activism. The U.S. public education establishment too, has turned toward ...

The Christian understanding of God calls us to see all as equal in his love and grace.  But American public secular education is all hung up, spending millions upon millions of dollars to try to find inequalities in academic achievement between races. Evaluations have shown basically that Asian Americans tend ...

Legislated obedience is shallow obedience.  It is inadequate in our public schools! In Galatians 3:24 it says: “…the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.”  In the verse, the Greek word, paedagogos, translated schoolmaster, referred originally to a slave or freeman, to whose care boys were committed and who ...