Christian Education, Again

"Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, Wesley -- all were men of high education who loved learning and used their minds until their work was done. Study the great turning points of Christian history, and in every case you will find behind them solid learning used to the glory of God. With all due honor to Moody and Spurgeon, who lacked formal education but who valued it so highly that they both founded schools, we must acknowledge that Christian history has in the main been made by men of the highest intellectual attainment" (Frank E. Gaebelein, The Pattern of God's Truth: Problems of Integration in Christian Education, 105-106).

Christian Education

"Only a small minority of Protestant youth are receiving elementary and secondary education with a genuinely Christian integration. The vast majority are in public schools, where a consistent Christian world view cannot be imparted, however good the emphasis upon conduct and character may be. To be sure, in some cases a strongly Christian home and a church with a vital educational program may supply the lack; yet the tide of secularism in American has risen so high that it is difficult to give children in their impressionable years a thorough-going Christian view of life" (Frank E. Gaebelein, The Pattern of God's Truth: Problems of Integration in Christian Education, 111).

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That originally published in 1954. It is as applicable today (if not more so) as it was then.