Christ in the Classroom

                                                                                                             Vol. XIX, No. 8, October 2006 

When students are taught that they are to live for themselves, we find it difficult to continue educating them when they or start doing just that. Discipline and the kind of self-denial that is essential to a rigorous education are impossible for the general populace apart from the Christian faith. The great error of religious liberalism was the thought that ethical self-restraint could be detached from doctrinal commitments. As we should all be able to see by now, this enterprise does not work at all. True discipline will not return to classrooms until the Lord Jesus Christ returns to those classrooms.

[Douglas Wilson, Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave Public Schools? (CruXpress, Mission Viejo, CA, 2001), p. 118]