Importance of a Christian Liberal Arts Education

Guest: Dan Panetti, PCA Worldview Director

New Staff Presentation 2022

First, we need to address what the goal of education really is:

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.  Caroline Bird

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.  Tyron Edwards

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.  Socrates

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

''Call me Ishmael,'' Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.” Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The Gospel of John, Chapter 1:1-5

Therefore, the Christian student has the ability to ask and answer important questions of life…

If you see a problem, what can I do to make it better?

If you see a void, what can I do to fill it?

If you see beauty, how can I best appreciate it?

If you see wonder, how can I best understand it?

MOVIE - Top Gun Maverick

Enemy-occupied territory – that is what this world is.  Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed.  You might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.  When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

Thanks to Jared Wood for the use of his music.