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The History of education
History is HIS story
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In the beginningIn the garden of Eden education was directly between humans and God.
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The Fall� The Fall and advent of sin meant that communication
was forever distorted, and relationships were impaired.
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The Tower of Babel� After languages were confused, tribes went in different
directions.
� Education developed within different cultural groups…some included God’s truth, some didn’t.
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Truth corrupted� Elders passed on knowledge
� including historical truths from the foundation of the
world.
� e.g. Flood stories appear in the history of many cultures
� But many cultures began to worship other gods.
� Truth was lost to many cultures.
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The Hebrews� The Hebrews faithfully educated their children in the
ways of the Lord.
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A God-centred culture� The Mosaic ideal was that every facet of the culture
was to be God-centred.
� Clothes, place names, monuments, calendar dates, the law and every day practices were God-focused.
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The Ancient Greeks� The Greeks worshiped many false gods.
� The educational system they established is still evident
today.
� Religion was separated out in a divided curriculum.
All for the glory of MAN
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The promised
one
� The birth and crucifixion of the Teacher changed education forever.
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Jesus, our example� His parables and His example impacted educational
thinking and practice.
� God’s love and the gospels permeated the teaching-learning process.
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The birth, death and resurrection
of Jesus
� The world now had the opportunity to be reunited with God through the cross.
� The Gospel was now a key to education.
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The spread of the Gospel� The Gospel impacted learning from Jerusalem into
Africa and Europe and beyond.
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The Reformation� In Europe, the Reformation was a spearhead for
literacy and education for all, so the Bible was in the
hands of everyone, and everyone was a priest.
� John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and other edifying
books were widely read.
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Church-based education� In Europe, the church valued literacy and promoted
study of the creation.
� Seminaries became universities.
� Cathedrals founded great schools.
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Godly foundation� The foundation of schools and universities was
theology – the study of God.
� Character development and spiritual disciplines were expected of students.
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Moral law� The laws of the land were based on the Bible and it
provided restraints and justice.
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The church took responsibility for
education
� Schools were linked to the local church community.
� A Christian worldview permeated all lessons and
informed school practices.
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The dawn of evolutionary
thinking
� Darwinism created a setback to Christian education.
� There was now a conflict.
� Was God’s word really true, or was man’s idea better?
� False teaching throughout science, history and social science meant that generations grew without any
reference to the Gospel.
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Where is God?� Their parents and teachers taught and modeled
alternative lifestyles.
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Christian education diluted� Church schools became chameleon-like, trying to be all
things to all people. Faith was diluted out of education.
� The State took control of education.
� Church schools became elite fee-paying schools for the rich.
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God’s plumb line� Graduates left school with no certainties, no plumb
lines for life.
� Discipline, academic standards and school cohesion fell.
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Where is God?� The integrating force of the cross was denied.
� Christian schooling must be built on the rock of Jesus
Christ. The alternative is on the sand.
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A new wave of Christian Schools
� Because church schools of the past denied their Gospel roots, a new wave of Christian schools has
arisen …
� Schools that base their syllabus on God, His ways, His
character, His nature, His word...
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Following the Teacher� Schools where students can follow in the footsteps of
the Teacher.
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Christian education for the
nations
� Across the world the light continues.
� A Holy Spirit generation is leaving the gates of
Christian schools ready to change the world.
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The light shines in the darkness
� Christian schools that build their curriculum upon the Rock will send forth students as lights to the nations,
bringing many to know and love God.
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Will your school be one of these?