The Christian worldview of education encompasses more than simply making the students smarter or able to pass a test. Education for Christians is almost geared in such a way that teachers are attempting to either restore some of the Edonic goodness, purity, and wholeness, or looking forward and trying to achieve the heavenly goodness, purity, and wholeness. If any part of education does not fit either of those two goals, then it does not have a part in education or life in general.
Christians have a different culture from which to work. They are not of this world and thus must operate from a completely different standpoint. If whatever activity is occurring is not helping its viewers, planners, or participators to become more Christ-like, then the activity should not continue. Education has more to do with becoming truly human and who we were created to be mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually than it does getting students to pass a test.
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