Christian Homeschooling

ISBN: 9781930367760

定价: 30.00

内容简介

The Value of Christian Schools1
The C~.ristian schools ought indeed to be welcomed even from
the point of view of a merely secular broadening of the mind.
They ou~ght to be welcomed by every friend of real education
simply because they tend to liberate our people from the dead
hand of monopolistic state control which keeps education in a
miserable rut and checks true intellectual advance. Even in their
mere capacity as private schools they are worthy of all support.
But incomparably greater is their value as Christian schools. As
Christian schools??? they are like a precious salt amid our people??? a
precious salt that checks the ravages of decay; as Christian
schools??? too??? they offer blessings with which all the blessings of
this world are not worthy to be compared; they offer a liberty of
which that lost civil liberty ... is but a by-product; they offer the
liberty with which Christ has made us free.
One word more needs to be spoken. What has Christianity to do
with education: What is there about Christianity which makes it
necessary that there should be Christian schools?
Very little??? some people say Christianity??? they say??? is a life??? a tem-
per of soul??? not a doctrine or a system of truth; it can provide its
sweet aroma??? therefore??? for any system which secular education
may provide; its function is merely to evaluate whatever may be
presented to it by the school of thought dominant at any particu-
lar time.
This view of the Christian religion ... is radically false. Christian-
ity is??? indeed??? a way of life; but it is a way of life founded upon a
system of truth. That system of truth is of the most comprehen-
sive kind; it clashes with opposing systems at a thousand points.
The Christian life cannot be lived on the basis of anti-Christian
thought. Hence the necessity of the Christian school.
1. This selection is taken fromJ.