Sheri Clegg, Upper School Principal
Is a superlative Christian education possible? Consider God’s words in Jeremiah 29:11, 13. "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope…You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."
The plans for his people are to have the best, including top-notch education for his children. Public education is flawed; leaving out major components of child development, and depending on the school’s vision, Christian education could be no more than a hybrid public education complete with the biblical insignia.
Is a superlative Christian education possible? Consider God’s words in Jeremiah 29:11, 13. "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope…You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."
The plans for his people are to have the best, including top-notch education for his children. Public education is flawed; leaving out major components of child development, and depending on the school’s vision, Christian education could be no more than a hybrid public education complete with the biblical insignia.
When you walk the hall of a classical grammar school, you’ll hear sounds of small children reciting the Ten Commandments during math time. In the hallways of 7th through 9th graders (the most neglected stage of development in modern education), you will hear a discussion on how the Ten Commandments compare and contrast with our 1st Amendment Rights. Down the 10th through 12th grade halls, you’ll hear students give speeches or see them write papers about the rift within the Catholic Church of the 1500s, due, in part to Martin Luther’s courage to speak out against the religious mores of the time. The classical model of education is a blending of biblical truth within and among all subject areas. The goal is to explore, experience, and explain each part of the subject matter in relation to the whole of education and God’s word just as we are hard wired to think! With the centrality of God firm in each subject area, Christian classical education seeks to define relationships between economics, science, and history and the inter-connectedness of math, languages, and the fine arts.
So, to what ultimate end is a Christian classical education? Is it to impart the postmodern values that constant change is equal to improvement and success? No. In fact, if we insert classical education into the technological era, it comes up short because technology becomes obsolete too quickly. Change must move slowly and deliberately and with clear perspective and purpose, otherwise it can (and has) subvert the mission of education. Ultimately, Christian classical education is designed to prepare men and women to converse and write persuasively and eloquently in many areas of knowledge including the liberal arts and sciences, and to know God as they transmit that knowledge to others.
Summit Christian Academy provides a superlative Christian education. We need parents to transmit the truth about the Christian classical education to friends and families so that our classrooms are filled with God’s family who are purposefully seeking more than what they currently have available within our society.
So, to what ultimate end is a Christian classical education? Is it to impart the postmodern values that constant change is equal to improvement and success? No. In fact, if we insert classical education into the technological era, it comes up short because technology becomes obsolete too quickly. Change must move slowly and deliberately and with clear perspective and purpose, otherwise it can (and has) subvert the mission of education. Ultimately, Christian classical education is designed to prepare men and women to converse and write persuasively and eloquently in many areas of knowledge including the liberal arts and sciences, and to know God as they transmit that knowledge to others.
Summit Christian Academy provides a superlative Christian education. We need parents to transmit the truth about the Christian classical education to friends and families so that our classrooms are filled with God’s family who are purposefully seeking more than what they currently have available within our society.
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