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Heartbeat of Christian Higher Education - Coggle Diagram
Heartbeat of Christian Higher Education
Education as a whole
Apple Representation
Past
"Meat" - Representing the past material studied and taught to present day students
Present
"Flesh" - ideas being discovered now on the surface of new ideas and discoveries.
Future
"Seeds" - representing future education to grow upon new ideas and interpretations from studies we plant for them.
Christian views
Western Education
Heads, Heart, and Mind centered curriculum.
C.S. Lewis - "Men without chests."
Martin Luther King Jr. - "The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
Important to have foundations of a curriculum to have guidance in a moral understanding of the material.
Orthodoxy
Centering faith and his Lordship in thinking.
Right thinking about God in mind of the material.
Is it his will?
Is it righteous? is it evil?
Orthopraxy
Right Action in line with God
Is it his will?
Is it righteous? is it evil?
Centering his Lordship in Actions
Core Curriculum
Christian based Curiculum
Christian based schools tend to use professor leveled teachers to teach core curriculum.
Non Christian schools tend to use graduate or part time faculty to teach core courses.
General Education
Foundational
Provide basic understanding for higher level classes
Provide a support to interpret within one's self rather than going to start on each subject.
Requirement for most curriculums
Christians tend to see it in a different understanding for the factual information through Christ.
Usually first 2 years of school work.
Christian Liberal Arts Base
Augustine of Hippo
Was an adult "convert"
Helped bridge gap between pagan and Christian education
Used the Spoils of Egypt approach
Used the melting of gold and silver in Exodus to represent purification of the metals for the use of God.
Urged believers not to let the pagan ways spoil their understanding of God and his sovereignty
Arch of Titus
Used to show metals were used in an inapropriate manner for the Lord
Shows how paganism approaches start to adopt Christian based views.
Opposite of Spoils of Egypt approach
Citizenship
Christians used it for a citizenship for the Kingdom of God
Many thought paganism was unredeemable and a "lost cause"
Scripture shows even pagan writers and thinkers were referenced.
Greek students tied liberal arts to citizenship