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CHRISTIANITY
The sovereignty of the triune God is the
starting point, and this God speaks through His infallible word.
We must accept God as God. He alone is Lord.
God’s Word and Person is the Truth.
Education is into God’s truth in every realm.
Education is discipline under a body of truth. This body of truth
grows with research and study, but truth is objective and
God-given. We begin by pre-supposing God and His word.
Godly standards grade us. We must
measure up to them. The teacher grades
the pupil.
Man’s will, and the child’s will, must be broken to God’s purpose.
Man must be remade, reborn by God’s grace.
Man’s problem is sin. Man must be recreated by God.
The family is God’s basic institution. |
HUMANISM
The sovereignty of man and the
state is the starting point, and it is the word of scientific, elite
man which we must heed.
Man is his own god, choosing or determining for himself what
constitutes good and evil.
Truth is pragmatic and existential: it is what we find works and is
helpful to us.
Education is the self-realization and self-development of the child.
Education is freedom from restraint and from any idea of truth
outside of us. We are the standard, not something outside of man.
The school and the world must measure up to the pupil’s needs. The
pupil grades the teacher.
Society must be broken and remade to man’s will, and the child’s will
is sacred.
Man’s problem is society. Society must be recreated by man.
The family is obsolete. The
individual or the state is basic. |
