Education Quotes

“Obedience to God is what motivates me to teach my own children at home. It doesn’t make any difference to me what the public school is doing (whether good or bad), because they are not the plumb line. God’s Word is the standard.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“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.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“My mother’s philosophy was, “Teach your children how to read, how to reason, and how to research, and they will know how to succeed in life.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“By keeping in mind that we are homeschooling out of obedience, not preference, our family has avoided becoming discouraged when things become difficult.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“Personally, I don’t think there is a more vicious pack of carnivorous beasts on the planet than a group of junior-high students. There are many adults who still carry around the wounds and scars of their adolescence. Many young people during this transformational age are scared and uncertain about themselves and their place in the world. They feel vulnerable and don’t want to show their fears, so they look for weakness in others and lunge at any opportunity to exploit it. They feel that if they can expose a flaw or shortcoming in someone else, the pack, like a bunch of rabid sharks, will attack the wounded companion and leave them alone.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“In many ways, your child’s sense of worth is determined by what the most important person in his life thinks of him. When you place children into school, their peers often become the most important people in their lives.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted: “You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.”4”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“A Christian education is not merely tacking a Jesus bumper sticker onto a secular methodology; it is, instead, understanding that everything we study is a reflection of the marvelous Creator who made all that is (John 1:3).”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“The fact is, the 10,000 hours that could be invested strategically in some important life goal will be spent on something. Will the 10,000 hours be spent on entertainment, government indoctrination, anti-Christian media, sports, video games, play, hanging out with peers, or. . . ? You’ll never get those hours back. Your time is your life.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“Show me your beliefs by the way you live. If our beliefs don’t change the way we live, they are insufficient to save us. C.S. Lewis told us: “A man can’t always be defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“We live in a world that is dying from truth deprivation. We are to be the light of the world. We may not like public speaking, or learning to defend our faith, but we can’t put our lamps under a basket. There is too much at stake. We have to come out of our comfort zones and learn to communicate the unchanging truth of God’s Word to our decadent culture.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“It’s not enough to merely teach academics to children at home. Parents need to teach their children to view the world from an objectively true, biblical perspective. They need to teach their children, by example, how to truly love God.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“Can God teach us as much, and prepare us for life just as much, through singing at the local nursing home or cleaning a house for a sick friend as He can through our English grammar books?”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“It is a serious mistake to assume, first, of all, that there is any neutral subject which can be taught in the same way by both Christian Schools and humanistic schools. To believe so is to deny God’s total sovereignty over all things.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“The purpose of an education is to know our Creator.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“A secular humanist’s approach to history seeks to eliminate any positive reference to Christianity. Our goal is to tell both the good and the bad, the lovely and the hideous, all in a way that reflects the sovereign working of God in the midst of a fallen and broken humankind.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“There will be no greater struggle facing parents in the 21st century than finding a balance between using the things of the world and being separated unto God. There are only two kingdoms, and two masters. Your children will serve one or the other. Satan has control of most of the media outlets. He runs the majority of the Internet. You as a parent need to wear your knees out in prayer for your children. How close can they get to the fire without being burned? How close do you want them to get?”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. . . . And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God, in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.1”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“I greatly fear the high schools are nothing but great gates of hell, unless they diligently study the Holy Scriptures and teach them to the young people. —Martin Luther”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?

“Do you know what one school supplier suggests that “special-education teachers” do for students who struggle with dyslexia, ADD, or other learning disabilities? They want the teachers to hypnotize the child to help them reach the higher levels of potential within themselves. They actually say in the catalog that spirit guides will assist the child, and the teacher should help the child get to know his or her guide. Of course, the teachers don’t inform the parents that their children will be exposed to demonic forces. The parents naively assume their children are receiving advanced reading lessons.”
― Israel Wayne, Education: Does God Have an Opinion?