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Professor Engelsma’s book on Reformed education, first published in 1977, now appears in a revised edition. A thoughtful chapter analyzing the present trend toward home education has been added. Those parents of Presbyterian and Reformed conviction who are inclined toward home education, would be we
Furthermore, the value of Reformed Education is that it gets down to the nitty gritty: how our teachers should use the Scriptures in our schools. Prof. Engelsma emphasizes that the Scriptures should permeate all of the subjects. Therefore, to merely have a Bible class does not comprise Christian edu
The goal of Reformed, Christian education flows out of the covenantal basis. The author warns that Christian education must not start in the Spirit and then end with some fleshly goal such as the successful, cultured gentleman. The goal rather is the "mature man of God, who lives in this world in ev
Protestant Reformed Christian education is not a “horse and buggy age philosophy” but is concerned with the age-long problem—the thorough furnishment of the man of God. I. WHAT IT IS! P.R.C. education is radically different from anything that is generated in the mind of man. That which is believed t
The Idea of Protestant Reformed Education At the risk of belaboring the obvious, I want to remind you, first of all, of what is not the idea of Protestant Reformed education. 1. It is not the idea of merely having a separate school which we can call “our own”. Being practically minded, we are easil
[8] Reformed Education, 14. College, Education, Humanism
The Reformed person has always valued education. That was the theme of the great Reformers—Luther and Calvin to be sure—and that ought to characterize us as well. Perhaps we need some attitude adjustment here. We need people of discernment, people who can lead, people who can analyze, criticize, and
Because it viewed Christian education as covenantal, the Reformation had a practical, ethical goal in all its efforts on behalf of Christian education. The goal of the Reformation was not intellectually brilliant students who would astound the world with their erudition and achievements. The Reforme
I am absolutely convinced that we in CERC shall have little to speak of the Reformed faith if we further subject our children to another generation of public education. The young people are the future of the church. For this reason the education they receive from infancy onwards ought to prepare the
God’s young people need an education in their high school years that is “based on and permeated with the distinctive doctrines of the Reformed faith as set forth in the Reformed confessions” (Engelsma). With this great need in mind, our Reformed fathers set out once again to establish a high school.