February 19, 2007

Why Not Government School?

This is a good question, especially since a government elementary school is a stone's throw (or two) from our house. We've already paid for it with our taxes after all! My wife could be there in a minute if she were ever called. Etc. Etc.

Porterdale Elementary would definitely be the path of least resistance; however, here are some quotes in line with the way we have answered the question for ourselves:

The school system that ignores God teaches its pupils to ignore God; and this is not neutrality. It is the worst form of antagonism, for it judges God to be unimportant and irrelevant in human affairs. This is atheism." ~ Gordon Clark

2. Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal! life, John 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, Let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seeke it of him Prov. 2, 3." ~ from the Rules and Precepts observed at Harvard University, 1642

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