How to Use a Classical Christian Education in Your Home

By Kayley Kenzie

Schools in early American history were characteristically schools promoting Classical Christian education. Normally, the instructors were ministers who had an educational background in classical languages, literature, and Protestant theology.

So, students study the Bible in its original Hebrew and Greek languages and other classics in Greek.

Classical Christian education often produces students that are amazing leaders and thinkers. A rigorous and challenging education made this type of education a winning service.

Sadly, the current educational system in the nation has dishonored the value of this commodity. With the irrational and classless changes that the current system makes, academic degrees show nothing about a person's thinking abilities.

Other educational models of the past, such as Classical Christian education, have a foundation in working hard and acquiring book knowledge.

If you think about it, the ability to use reason, analysis, and perspective comes from reading. In Classical Christian education, this scholarly ability is developed in order to understand and apply the Scriptures.

In Colonial America, education was not just Christian in the teachings of the Christian doctrine and faith, but also in classifying all reality by principles and teachings prescribed in the Bible. The colonial mind approached education, philosophy, and social theories through Christian lenses.

Classical Christian education has been alive and well in America since the early 1900s. It's rooted not only in Christian values and principles, but also in high academic standards. The results have been phenomenal.

How can we have some of the same results in our era? How can we teach in such a manner when the teachers of today aren't trained in teaching in the classical method? For starters, we need to start with what we have.

We can teach from the Bible. We can teach from centuries of classic texts. There are great works of literature, history, science, and theology that are translated into English.

Though Christian Classical education might seem obsolete, it has the power to mold a student into a thinking, reasoning individual who can read a profound book and write an analytical essay about it. And above all, it's designed to lead the student to God.