“Where the old initiated, the new merely ‘conditions’. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds— making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. in a word, the old was a kind of propagation—men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.” — C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Christian education is discipleship. It calls the entire person into the covenant. It shapes affections and intentions and casts vision and provides purpose. It infuses culture and tradition into character formation that quickens the affections and broadens the creative capacities of gratitude and ingenuity for the love of God and neighbor and the increase of His glory and their good. It is Christians making disciples of all people, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all that Christ commanded. It is a bird who knows how to fly teaching a chick the joy of heights.
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Titus 2:3-5
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
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