The purpose of education is to prepare children to fulfill God's calling as free men in God's world.

You would think, that as a Christian, I would have understood that, but my own humanistic, state education did such a good job that my underlying assumption was that knowledge is an end in itself. I wanted my children to know a lot of things, especially intellectually snobby things like philosophy and complex mathematics. I now realize how arrogant and man-centered a view that is. Like everything else, knowledge is good only to the extent that it is used in service of God and in the advancement of His kingdom. I need to approach homeschooling with the purpose of shaping my children into effective servants of God. To be effective they will need a lot of knowledge of God, of His laws, of themselves, and of His Creation, much more knowledge than is given in public or most private schools today. However, this knowledge will not be presented to them that they might discover truth and meaning themselves, as if they were little gods, deciding good and evil for themselves. All knowledge will be given as God-created truth, to be seen in the light of God's Word, and used for His glory.
For a much better explanation of the above, please see R. J. Rushdoony's book, The Philosophy of Christian Curriculum.

My blog now has a purpose! I was never comfortable just writing my random thoughts on the internet, but now I intend to devote this blog to musings on the purpose of Christian education and practical methods for creating a thoroughly Biblical homeschooling program.

May God use this blog, and everything else in my life, for His own glory.