So What Is Johnny’s Education All About Anyway?

“‘Parent choice’ proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained. ‘Family choice’ is, therefore, basically selfish and anti-social in that it focuses on the ‘wants’ of a single family rather than the ‘needs’ of society.”

– Association of California School Administrators — Circa 1979

1.) Who gets to determine what the needs of a society are and by what standard are the needs measured?

2.) Here we have it in bold print. Education is not about education but rather about forcing people to work in a prearranged social order.

3.) If this is the way things operate than doesn’t it make sense for Christians to start thinking about what a “Biblical Social Order” looks like?

4.) Understand here that what is being advocated is that the decision of those concerned about the “social order” is seen to be more important then the decision of the parents for the good of their children.

5.) Concomitant with #4 is the idea that the social order is of higher importance then the family order.

6.) This quote communicates the idea that an individual is sustained more by his social order then his family or church context.

7.) Understand that as this type of thinking has won the day the result has been that those who have been saturated in Government Schools have almost universally adopted the premises of the social order as taught in Government schools. The implication of this is that those people will take the premises of the social order that they were taught and will shape and form their family orders and church orders to fit the social order that they have been brainwashed in.

8.)Parents wanting to raise and educate their children so that their children have their belief system and their value matrix are considered selfish. According to this ideology it is selfish for Parents to go against the social order.

People, if that quote doesn’t make you turn green from illness you need to go to the undertaker because you are dead.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane