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Lesson OneAn Introduction and Overview4 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoThe Big Questions of Life3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeBasic Philosophical Categories and Their Relationship to Education3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourCentrality of Scripture3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveA Biblical Worldview3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SixThe Importance of Parents3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenThe Importance of Teachers3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson EightNurturing in the Christian School3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson NineResponsive Discipleship in the Christian School3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TenThe Importance of a Coherent Curriculum3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ElevenChristian Philosophy Under Attack3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwelveChallenges and Opportunities for Christian Educators6 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion2 Activities1 Assessment
Participants 557
Discussion Questions
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The lecturer states she “would contend that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
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Agree, In Christian education, believers have a special ability to truly love wisdom as God intended. This comes from their close relationship with God, which changes the way they think and seek wisdom that aligns with God’s truth and values. Education is not just about learning facts, but also growing spiritually and becoming better people. God’s teachings in the Bible and through Jesus provide a unique understanding of truth and wisdom.
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I agree that to truly love wisdom you must believe in God as creator and knowing Him as the author of life is knowing God through growing in wisdom of His Word, the Bible. It is more than believing, it is walking in relationship with Jesus, gaining Wisdom from God’s Word helps us to love wisdom and grow in our faith. If a person doesn’t believe in God, their wisdom is only worldly wisdom, which does not come from God, but the world, which is of evil.
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I agree because we have the Holy Spirit to light up understanding where our sinful selves only exist to serve self. With Jesus changing our hearts and lives, our minds are also changed and we can accept wisdom that serves up hard truths, not just tolerant “love” of the day.
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Yes and No, a non-believer made in the image of God can be living according to God’s wisdom without understanding of what that means as shown in Scripture and Jesus’ life. They could be living a life informed by natural revelation to some extent. But a believer who has the Holy Spirit, who life is informed by the Scriptures, and is empowered to live like Wisdom personified Jesus is blessed with more ability to live the way God created us to live and thus love wisdom they way God intended.
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I would agree that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love. Wisdom by definition is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right and lasting. Those components are the direct result of knowing God at an intimate level. As mentioned by the lecturer God’s word is our bedrock – it is the foundation for how we should live and by doing so we therefore will correctly take the correct path through life.
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What do you hope to gain from this course? In what specific areas do you hope to grow as a Christian educator?
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Through this course, I hope to gain knowledge on how to inspire my students to see the connections between disciplines, as F. Schaeffer described, in related parallel lines. When students can connect the dots between mathematical theories through historical events and geographical and sociological influences, producing artistic and innovative discoveries, then they can be inspired to fulfill God’s plan to use their gifts to further humankind’s progress toward greater knowledge of truth.
As a teacher of American and international students, I hope to pass on not just my knowledge of the subject, but also the passion and curiosity of the unknown.
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I am an online math teacher for homeschool students around the country and world. I taught my own children using Christian curriculum, because my husband and I wanted to train our children according to God’s Word. Just like attending a homeschool convention each year recharged my commitment to educate my children, with the focus on training them to know God and to love Jesus, this course will recharge my focus as I teach other children. I have opportunities to counsel both parents and students, not just in math, but in many areas of life.
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I hope to gain a better understanding to be able to engage in the conversation of Biblical integration in the classroom. I hope to better be able to do bring a Christian worldview and Biblical application into all of my courses this year and that it will naturally flow and not feel like a forced Bible study stuck in the middle of the learning material.
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I do not work in a Christian school currently. But I believe I can still uphold Christian values in my classroom, even if I can not specifically teach about Christ. I hope to learn how to do that.
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I am looking forward to formulating a philosophy for guidance as I seek to become a better teacher.
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Why is it imperative that Christian educators have a Christian philosophy of education?
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Christian educators, which include parents and teachers, are commanded to impart biblical knowledge to the children under their care. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 says, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” This is God’s method of building a godly culture based on His ways, by training the young to follow His statutes and serve only the true God. If the children of the next generation continue in the ways of their godly parents, they are promised that it will go well for them, that they will possess the land, and that God would cast out their enemies before them. It is God’s way of sanctifying for Himself a special people and a culture destined to thrive and and never go extinct.
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Philosophy is the love of wisdom. We must have the solid rock of the Bible, God’s Word, as our foundation to have a biblical worldview. God made the world and everything for His own glory. Because of the Fall, the secular world has basic beliefs, assumptions, and values that are bent far away from God’s Word. As Christian educators, we desire to disciple our students to respond to the challenges and controversies of the world with wisdom. Christian educators should teach students how to bend each part of the secular worldview back to a biblical worldview.
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As we learned about bedrock… our philosophy is what we will bring into the classroom and impart to our students. We must have a firm foundation in the bedrock of a Christian worldview rooted in God’s word. The Word of God should be our primary source. When our students have a question, when we are presenting material we must always ensure that our philosophy does not contradict God’s Word. I have found that one of the reasons I love to teach Science from a Christian worldview is that through nature, God’s design of nature and how He cares for nature; we are able to learn a lot more about who He is.
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We learned that education is the instrument for carrying out societies philosophical goals. If a Christian Educator bases his/her teaching on worldly views and world philosophies, there is no difference in what we say compared to what the world says. A Christian Educator must base what he/she teaches on knowledge, values and truth gained from the Word of God, not what is generally accepted by society at a given time.
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Because God, through Christ, should be our foundation for all aspects of our lives. We cannot pick and choose which parts of our lives to follow Christ in. It must be all!