Within TfT, we often say that learning is an invitation for teachers and students to play their part in God’s redemptive story.
In his essay “Of Education,” John Milton describes the purpose of learning this way: “The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him….”
Recently I came across a quotation from David Naugle, professor and author on Christian worldview, who said that “the goal of education is to produce saints through scholarship.”
In Desiring the Kingdom, James K.A. Smith says that “the primary purpose of Christian education is the formation of a peculiar people.”
These individuals offer distinct articulations but a common vision for Christian education. And through your Deep Hope, you add your own voice and vision of Christian education specifically for your school or classroom. The diversity and commonality of all these perspectives, including your own, paints a beautiful picture of what is happening in our global network of TfT schools.
