The 4 Questions of Good Christian Education

This would apply to schools and churches alike.  Anthony Bradley writes:

One of the advantages of living in a free society is that parents have multiple options for how they can educate their children, including enrolling them in religious education. Christian education is unique in that teachers can integrate faith and learning in the classroom to unlock academic disciplines from mere materialistic or rational concerns to direct interdependence and collaboration with the providential work of the Triune God in his plan to redeem the entire cosmos.

In light this fact, if any student graduates from a Christian school, at either the secondary or the university level, and cannot answer the following questions I argue that the school is failing. These four questions wed the goal of the Christian life — namely, to glorify God — with our day-to-day lives in a way that expands the scope of how we think about vocation.

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Seven Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Still in College

Interesting post for those entering into college and those reflecting on their collegiate experience.  I agree with his seven points.

For All The Music, History, Literature, and General Studies Majors Out There

As one who has a BA in religion, this comical video rang quite true.

8-Year Old College Student Tanishq Abraham

Student Load Debt is Unsustainable

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(HT: Denny Burk)

Not Everyone Should Go To College

There is probably real wisdom in this.

Robert Samuelson:

The college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness. Time to ditch it. Like the crusade to make all Americans homeowners, it's now doing more harm than good. It looms as the largest mistake in educational policy since World War II, even though higher education's expansion also ranks as one of America's great postwar triumphs.

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The Coming Meltdown in College Education

Billionaire business man, Mark Cuban, writes about the coming collapse of college education.  I know this is nothing new.  Many people are seeing the writing on the wall.  As I think about training future leaders for the church I am more and more convinced that staying out of huge seminary debt and doing a local church training program like Porterbrook is probably the way to go for most people.

Remember the housing meltdown ? Tough to forget isn’t it. The formula for the housing boom and bust was simple. A lot of easy money being lent to buyers who couldn’t afford the money they were borrowing. That money was then spent on homes with the expectation that the price of the home would go up and it could easily be flipped or refinanced at a profit. Who cares if you couldn’t afford the loan. As long as prices kept on going up, everyone was happy. And prices kept on going up. And as long as pricing kept on going up real estate agents kept on selling homes and finding money for buyers.

Until the easy money stopped. When easy money stopped, buyers couldn’t sell. They couldn’t refinance. First sales slowed, then prices started falling and then the housing bubble burst. Housing prices crashed. We know the rest of the story. We are still mired in the consequences.

Can someone please explain to me how what is happening in higher education is any different?

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