The title of this article was the subject of a debate and discussion at the August 10–12 Convention of Christian Schools International and the Association of Christian School Administrators, held this year at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. The subject has been under discussion for some time in the Christian schools’ organization, articles in our last November […]
Basic Principles Although there were some variances in emphases, there are basic principles of agreement in the Reformers’ views of education. 1. A high regard for education as a means in promoting Scriptural Christianity. All the Reformers, without exception, placed a high premium on education as a vehicle to promote the faith of Scripture. In […]
As schools open again this month this review of the individual Reformer’s educational views and practices, done by Mrs. Pronk in study at the Reformed Bible College (Grand Rapids, Michigan), places our present Reformed educational efforts in historical perspective. Next month’s concluding part of the article highlights common basic principles in the Reformers’ views of […]
Professor John M. Frame, Associate Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary at Escondido, California, concludes his analysis, begun in our January issue, of a new proposal to remove the Reformed creeds from the bases of our Christian schools. He is referring to a 15 page document entitled Christian Educational Philosophy: A […]
One of the American television networks is running a news series on the condition of American education. In one of the segments, the sordid story was told about the lack of classroom control in some schools. One teacher had been teaching for nine years but was so overwhelmed by what was happening in her classroom […]
Myron D. Rau in our November issue called attention to a proposal to remove the Reformed creeds from the bases of our Christian schools in an effort to broaden their appeal to non-Reformed people. When a similar proposal was made a decade ago Professor John M. Frame, a delegate to the Christian school convention, alerted […]
A certain man had a son; and the son said unto his father, “Separate me, I pray, from my stewardship as a Christian intellectual, that my faith reproach me not in my discipline.” So his father loosed him from his birthright. And it came to pass, not many days hence, that the son fell under […]
Senator Robert VanderLaan, Minority Leader of the Michigan State Senate, is a former Christian School teacher and a member of the Millbrook Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids. One of the first board members of the Dutton Christian School, he was the speaker at its 25th anniversary celebration on March 18, 1980. In a brief […]
“Bright as is the manifestation which God gives both of Himself and His immortal kingdom in the mirror of His works, so great is our stupidity, so dull are we in regard to these bright manifestations, that we derive no benefit from them. For in regard to the fabric and admirable arrangement of the universe, […]
A Movement Toward Doctrinal Obscurity Psalm 78:1–8 has long been a potent passage of Scripture for making and maintaining friends for Christian Day Schools. In forthright terms the Psalmist declares as the spokesman of God the tragic outcome of an education that denies God His rightful place: “a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts (are) […]