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Written by Kayley Kenzie

Thursday, 13 March 2008

Schools in early American history were characteristically schools promoting Classical Christian education. Normally, the instructors were ministers who had an educational background in classical languages, literature, and Protestant theology.

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As a result, students studied the bible in its original Greek and Hebrew along with other classics in Greek.

Many of the most brilliant leaders and thinkers were a direct result of classical Christian education. The challenging and rigorous education forces the students to think and reason, which is why it's a winning system.

Unfortunately, our nation's education system has no regard for a commodity of this value. The current system operates on classless, irrational changes that makes degrees meaningless as far as showing us a person's ability to reason and think.

Other educational models of the past, such as Classical Christian education, have a foundation in working hard and acquiring book knowledge.

If you think about it, the ability to use reason, analysis, and perspective comes from reading. In Classical Christian education, this scholarly ability is developed in order to understand and apply the Scriptures.

In Colonial America, education was not just Christian in the teachings of the Christian doctrine and faith, but also in classifying all reality by principles and teachings prescribed in the Bible. The colonial mind approached education, philosophy, and social theories through Christian lenses.

Since the early 1900s, Classical Christian education has existed in America. Not only was the education based on Christian values and principles, but the academic standards were high and the results were phenomenal.

Can we achieve the same results today? Is it even possible to teach in the same way when our teachers have absolutely no training in the classical method? Well, to start with, we need to use the tools we have.

We can teach from the Bible. We can teach from centuries of classic texts. There are great works of literature, history, science, and theology that are translated into English.

While it might seem as though Classical Christian education is outdated, the design is sound; it can produce a student who has the reasoning and analytical ability to read a profound book, then write a compelling essay about it. And more than anything else, it is designed to lead students to God.

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