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Students in school classrooms spend a minimum of 10,800 seat hours3 being instructed by people who are not their parents. There is almost no way to calculate what a powerful force this is for influence.
Never confuse education and schooling. They are NOT the same thing. If a child wants to learn something, you cannot stop them. If a child does not want to learn, you cannot force them.
Harvard College’s original mission statement in 1636 defines the purpose of an education this way: “Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main 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 bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.”6
There is no such thing as a neutral education. Every education, every curriculum, has a viewpoint. That viewpoint either considers God in it or it does not.
