By Janene Dubbeld. Is Christian education really that important? Math is Math and English is English no matter how it is taught, right? Does education affect culture? How and what one is taught greatly influences what a person believes or will believe, customs which are or will be considered dear to their heart, and how they express or will choose to express these beliefs and customs.
This creates behavioral patterns which will be communicated throughout their lifetime in work, in love, and all aspects of living. In America, it is easy to see how education has affected culture. When education became public in our country, the Bible was at the core of the curriculum. McGuffey Readers and other early educational literature took the teachings and principles from the Book of Books—the Bible.
Taking the time to complete a cultural study would take much longer than one article, but the change in our American educational culture since the removal of prayer and the Bible has been drastically negative. In , the Supreme Court removed prayer from public school. In , they removed the Ten Commandments. Removing these foundational stones began crumbling the structure of our country. Today, we are working together to rebuild this foundation.
We must not quit! One bright light in the middle of this darkness is our Christian schools. We must keep this light shining to train our children and impact our culture. Eighteen years before the Supreme Court was removing these imperative things from our schools in America, an Ohio farm couple was hearing the calling of God to take the Gospel of Jesus to another country which would result in a unique type of Christian education.
Don Hawk had been to a service at his church where missionaries shared the great need for the Gospel in the country of Honduras.
As he was working in the cornfield the following day, he could not get this country out of his mind. Selling their farm, the Hawks took their children and moved to Honduras as a family.
Their desire was to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Honduran people. This alone would bring light into the darkness of sin and would begin changing hearts and lives—and result in cultural change.
They saw a great need for young men to be taught a better way to provide for their families. Their God-given vision was a boarding school for boys. By teaching the boys farming and a good work ethic, they were immediately introducing yet another path to cultural change. They purchased acres of land, with only one acre cleared. The boys attended school half the day and worked the farm half the day. Preservation of Culture 2. Transmission of Culture 3. Promotion of Culture 4.
Moulding the Personality 6. Restoring Unity of Mankind through Diffusion of Culture 7. Removing Cultural Lag. Culture is the blood vein of a society, which needs to be conserved. It is an important function of education to help in the preservation of culture or social heritage. Education, through its specialized agencies, tries to inculcate the traditions, customs, values, arts, morals etc. Nunn has emphasized this aspect in his views on education. Our first prime minister, Pt.
In addition to preservation of culture, it is a task of education to maintain the continuity of culture by handing down the existing cultural experiences, values, traditions, customs etc.
Society reels in utter chaos and confusion. Men will become savages and human relationship will be broken into pieces. Therefore, the substance of unity in any society is its precious culture. Besides preservation and transmission, another vital function of education is to modify the existing cultural patterns in the light of changes visible in the needs and demands of the society. These changes are heightened owing to cross-cultural variables. Thus, new cultural patterns are formed by replacing and reorienting the old outmoded cultural forms to suit the changing needs of time and man.
Therefore, society makes ostensible progress. This part of education is called progressive function of education. As such, education performs by constantly reorganizing and reconstructing human experiences for the promotion and enrichment of culture.
It is an admitted fact that every generation after generation modifies the old and archaic cultural forms and adds new ones to the best advantage of theirs. This is possible through educational means and method. Moreover, education equips the individual to adjust himself or herself to the changing cultural forms and patterns for better and successful living. It is an universal element of culture that personality is shaped and moulded by education.
Having said that, you will realize that the culture of one society may value education that is your success in life will depend on how well educated you are. This might be very different from some cultures as they might not value education so much and education might have a very low impact.
It is true that education can have a very big impact on the culture of an organization. One good example is when a society that has a major problem and have find a way to live with it. This is because they have learned other ways in tackling the same problem through interacting and education.
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