The state would like to educate your children
This article critiques the state education system for promoting secular, postmodern ideology rather than objective truth and genuine learning, citing declining academic proficiency despite increased schooling. The author argues that constructivist educational theories have replaced content-based learning with subjective truth-construction, resulting in poor academic outcomes and advocating implicitly for Christian alternatives to public education. The piece represents a Reformed Christian perspective on the antithetical nature of secular education and the need for covenant-based Christian schooling.
The title is a misnomer. Would our children truly be educated, we would ask? The state would really like to indoctrinate them to the current secular and antichristian worldview. Public schools have, by and large, become temples of atheism. The Christian Renewal issue dated August 15, 2020, carries a book excerpt by Gene E. Veith. The article is entitled, "The Death of Education." It begins with the paragraph, The consequences of the politicization of ordinary life and a constructivist view of...
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