Posted in The Principle Approach: Self-Directed Study
Welcome to another week or session of SDS Study. God bless your studies.Week 5—Assignment
- Lesson 4
- Education – A Whole View
- Education – A Whole View
- Supplemental Resources: None
- Assignments: Define Education; Complete first row of Chart on “Purposes of Education”
Lesson 4—Education – A Whole View
In this lesson, we really begin the aim and focus of the Self-Directed Study program. And that is to begin the process of identifying our Philosophy of Education as we fill in our Chart for Purposes of Education. As shown on the Suggestions for Definitions; I also defined “Christian”, Philosophy”, “Education”, and “Knowledge”. But you are not limited to those words. They are suggestions. I fashioned a definition for each word in my own simplest words and placed that in the first section of Row 1. Then in the second section of Row 1, identify the Biblical principles, and, lastly, in the last section of Row 1—apply the principle to your own education in your own words.
As I read this lesson, it was an eye-opener to read the description of philosophy of education —the internal body of wisdom that governs all educational choices, decisions, policies, and methods for instruction and discipline. It affects who will teach, choice of curriculum, school governance, classroom discipline, student programs, and the fruit produced by the individual student.” [Colossians 2:8]
I think to have a clear-cut appreciation for what we really believe about education is really necessary to make good choices consistent with that philosophy. In other words, doesn’t it help to know what we believe?
The description helped me in understanding that our educational philosophy contains the “seeds” that are to be planted and the means by which to cultivate them in the hearts and minds of our children…and that just being a Christian and gluing Scripture verses to secular curriculum does not produce graduates with a Christian worldview.
Of course, we know that our philosophy of education needs to be rooted in God’s Word and that we must heed the warning of the Apostle Paul “to beware of the vain philosophies of the world’s system after the tradition of men, lest their minds be taken captive through deception and they be led astray.”
I’m curious if seeking a non-Biblical classical approach would fall within this strong warning of Paul’s—the world’s system being after the tradition of men—Greece/Rome? I am so pleased to find The Principle Approach providing a Biblical classical approach to education; an education rooted in the Word of God.
