by David Quine via Homeschool Highlights
With great respect for his message and mission we asked homeschool dad, David Quine to address our readers. David Quine is founder of The Cornerstone Curriculum Project and author of some excellent resources designed for use particularly in the family setting. His newest course, Starting Points includes an obliging selection of living books to begin teaching worldview. His three high school courses, World Views of the Western World are masterpieces – classical education entrenched in Christian understanding.
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It is my passion to teach and encourage parents to build their lives and their children’s lives upon the biblical worldview. It started back in 1972 when my wife Shirley and I were working with Campus Crusade for Christ at a university campus. We realized that most students were ill prepared and inadequately equipped to give a solid biblical explanation for the faith that we have in Jesus Christ. Whether the child was in a Sociology class, a Biology class, or a Geology class, he was being challenged in his Christian faith.
 I went back to school to get a degree in Curriculum Design so that I could learn how to write educational materials to assist parents and teachers in the writing and implementation of a biblical way of looking at the world. We have been involved in homeschooling since 1980 and have ten children between the ages of 10 and 26.
I believe there is no single topic of greater significance than looking at life from the biblical worldview. In the 1960s and 70s, Francis Schaeffer asked this one penetrating question, “How should we then live?” Dr. Schaeffer’s answer is that we should be living according to a biblical worldview, a foundation that is laid upon Christ. I believe that question still resounds today in the 21st century. How should we then live? Are we going to embrace the biblical view, or are we going to embrace the nonbiblical view? Today what we see happening in some segments of Christianity is the fusion and synchronization of the two. We must be careful against that. In Back to Freedom and Dignity, Dr. Schaeffer said that Christians must pay close attention to the course of events. We are going to be called upon to answer questions that we have never considered before. We must be prepared to give an answer. In short, Christians must prepare to take the lead in giving direction to cultural change. If it goes poorly, as well it might in this post-Christian world, then we must be consciously preparing the next generation for the new battles that it will face. We must be consciously working and developing in our children’s lives a foundation that is based only upon the biblical worldview.
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