| | I recently answered a question for someone who teaches at the school I used to work at. The answer, given below, briefly fleshes out the application of presuppositional apologetics to education.
I need to ask teachers how they would defend the cause of Christian Education in a pluralistic society. Specifically, if you were asked to speak in front of a pluralistic audience, how will you present a defense for the presence of a Christian School in the community. Why Christian Education for young people?
There is no neutrality. All education approaches life from a certain point of view. Even the person who says that education should be practiced neutrally is (inconsistently) denying the same opportunity to all approaches that assume education should NOT be practiced neutrally.
In principle and in practice, it is impossible for an educator to escape from his own presuppositions, which influence his choices for direction for the school, curricula, teaching methods, grading methods, disciplinary methods, and so forth. Those presuppositions can change, but they are never neutral.
No society can equally express all possible perspectives in education. Since neutrality is impossible and society is finite, we are forced to pick and choose what educational institutions and methods will be allowed. School rules and, more broadly, societal rules, by their very nature discourage certain kinds of actions and encourage others.
The case for Christian education goes beyond this, however. American culture is derived from Puritan roots, a theology that has produced a growing economy and successful society. Puritanism saw Christianity as a force that should influence and define every activity in life, including education.
Because we have left these roots, we are experiencing problems with economic growth and moral standards. Allowing Christian schools to exist gives individual parents the choice to return to a tested model of success for their own families.
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| | Posted 9/22/2008 10:37 PM - 35 Views - 4 eProps - 3 comments
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