Myth: Good Education Requires Expensive Facilities
For the life of me, I cannot see what the cost of a
building has to do with children's ability to leam!
Perhaps. if the roof leaked on the textbook it might make
some difference. Most homes, though, do not have a
serious problem with a leaky roof. Even if they did it
would not be too difficult to move the book until the rain
stopped or the roof was repaired. Now that I think of it.
repairing the roof might give homeschoolers an excellent
educational experience.
I have
enjoyed observing children learn from their simplest
experiences and in some of the simplest circumstances.
There is wisdom in God's instructions in Deuteronomy 6:7.
which calls for parents to teach their children when they
sit with them in the house, while they walk with them in
the way. at bedtime, and upon rising in the morning.
Quality education can readily be accomplished in the
natural setting of the home during the daily affairs of
the family, and in the arena of the world around us where
God has so clearly recorded both knowledge and wisdom.
Psalms 19:1-3 tells us;
"The heavens
declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard."
Our forefathers received an education
by the light of the ebbing fire, or out in the field, or
perhaps in the forest, cutting logs. On the other hand. I
see the modem student standing beside the road, after the
morning rush to swallow breakfast and locate all the lost
shoes, books and paraphernalia, waiting to catch the
regulation yellow bus with its regulation seats. It will
carry him to the regulation building with the regulation
classrooms and on and on ad infinitum regulatum. Are
regulation shoes treading the regulation halls as blessed
as toes at home in the soil?
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