Sometimes I’m asked what I think Christian education is. I think it is education that has due regard for the individual child. Children’s differences in makeup are tenderly taken into account. No children should be kept in, sitting on a chair, anywhere in God’s world because someone has decreed that they, even though not developmentally ready, have reached “the age” when they should learn how to read. However good a curriculum is, however much it has the “roots” and “trunk” of life, however worthy and living are the books, however rich the spread of subjects, children are abused if their
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