No Such Thing as a Neutral Education
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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All education is religious--it will either instill values that align with the truth of God or create a worldview that subverts it. In this episode, R.C. Sproul warns against the myth of a neutral education.
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| 0:00.0 | There is no such thing as an objective approach to education. |
| 0:09.0 | There is no such thing as a neutral life and worldview. |
| 0:16.0 | If your education is in a coherent understanding of the reality of God and the significance of that for all spheres of creation and all |
| 0:26.0 | spheres of knowledge and all spheres of human enterprise that is undoubtedly going to give you |
| 0:31.6 | one picture, one set of values, one basic way of approaching life, then if you would try to examine that created sphere without reference to the significance of God to that sphere. |
| 0:45.9 | Do you see that? |
| 0:47.8 | There can't be neutrality. |
| 0:49.9 | If I try to give an educational position whereby children are instructed in terms of a basic life |
| 0:56.3 | and worldview without respect to God, then they are in fact being inculcated with a secularism, a kind of humanism, which has a religious commitment |
| 1:10.9 | ultimately, a religious commitment that is anti the Christian faith. |
| 1:17.0 | Because it's manifestly impossible to approach education without certain ultimate presuppositions as to the relationship |
| 1:26.3 | of the world and God. |
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