Expand the concept of Christian School Education.
Can we expand the concept of “Christian education in schools”?As a process of communicating knowledge and training a person’s natural gifts based on four realities that we highlight:
- This basic principle of Christian school education goes against any humanist philosophy that sharpens neutrality.
- Or the natural goodness of man.
- And builds his entire philosophy of education on the wrong principle.
- The result of building on the wrong ground is the indiscipline.
- Irresponsibility and immorality we see reigning in our classrooms.
This situation is caused by generations of children and adolescents who have simply been abandoned to their “natural inclinations”, without direction and without correction. If we believe and accept the Word of God, we have a responsibility to proclaim the biblical principle of human depravity. and sin and institute a philosophy of life and education according to that principle.
However structured they may seem to the different schools of psychopedagogy that deny this principle, they can never escape the fact that they have reached their conclusions through the deductive reasoning of different observations, subject to the subjectivism of observers. Revealing and true vision given to us by the Creator of the human being, the God of the Bible, psychologically and metaphysically. In chapters 1 and 2 of Romans, the sinful and rebellious nature of man presents itself as a sad reality. , ignore and, lessover, distort this reality, presenting unsustainable conclusions, as postulated by the secular theories of education.
Contrary to this, secular philosophy takes away its main purpose from people and places them at the center of all their own actions and as if they were the ultimate goal in itself. People become alienated and deprived of a higher purpose in their lives, each seeking only their own happiness outside the context of the Creator’s glorification.
Secular thought treats the religious question as if it were one?For people, like they don’t have that? Religious? That serves as a backdrop to the interpretation of everything you learn Do you ignore this fact and postulate this false?Neutrality of people, secular thought does not relate to “wisdom” with the “fear of the Lord”. This premise, that there is no religiosity, no confessionality, to use a more contemporary term, helps to prevent the correct understanding (and integration) of the facts communicated during the educational process.
This reality complements the reasoning set out in the previous point, being a logical consequence: if man is a religious being by nature and if this religiosity influences his interpretation of the facts received, surely the same religiosity will influence his transmission of the facts. means that the presentation of the different disciplines is philosophically influenced, which can be seen when you look at the subject of textbooks and texts written by secular educators, looking at the intrinsic distortions they contain, in chapters 17 and 18 of the first Script section”).
Far from resting, Satan has been busy coloring false facts and facts with the so-called ”goals” transmitted to us by secular schools and, unfortunately, a large part of the theoretically evangelical schools that do not yet have the right concept of what. Christian education is.
True Christian school education, in this definition, is not one that simply inserts the Bible into the curriculum, but one that rereads all the subjects, presenting them biblically, as coming from the sovereign God. disciplines among themselves, show the harmony prevailing in a universe created by God and present God’s designs in history. It is both holistic but, by its nature, interdisciplinary and transversal, elucidating the complexity of the universe.
In general, each educator will recognize the need for integration into education and represent different disciplines such as portions that make up a single cake or pizza. Clearly, the divisions of the program or the subjects presented here are simply illustrative:
A large number of evangelical schools even present the following version of this “education cake”: However, do we think that the mere insertion of the Bible as one of the themes, or even other similar attempts to simple?Christianization? The secularization that prevails in so-called “evangelical” schools is not enough to provide us with a true Christian education. However, the Bible should not simply be inserted separately into the curriculum, but is at the heart of the teaching and learning process. It acts as a purifier, and an integrative element among all areas of knowledge, serves as a basis and aplomb for us to understand the universe around us, it is a constant reminder that we cannot have a complete educational process if we retain the truth of the existence of the sovereign God of the Universe and the communication that divinity has established with creation – by nature , by the Carrier Word (the Bible), by the Father, by the Son, and by the Spirit.
In this book, Solano Portela makes a critical assessment of the current scenario of Brazilian education, both lay and religious, according to him, the predominant pedagogical proposal in Brazil goes beyond a pedagogical methodology and contains serious contradictions with the principles of the Christian faith. Based on this analysis, Solano proposes the development of a pedagogy for Christian school education, called redemptive pedagogy, which points to an education of excellence based on a biblical vision of the world of life and the world.
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