Caring for the intellectual health of our children.
Each day it's more apparent that our society is in moral and intellectual chaos—unmoored from any transcendent understanding of what's good and true and beautiful.
This disorder makes crystal clear why classical Christian education is so needed in our tumultuous time, and I was struck by this article spotlighting one Christian public intellectual's call 40 years ago for Christians to reintroduce "ancient wisdom and 'right reason'" to education.
In particular, Charles Malik—a scholar, educator, and diplomat to Lebanon—called for Christians to focus on the humanities, the disciplines that introduce students to the most important questions about our mortal lives. Surrendering these fields to secular society, Malik warned, would leave areas of profound cultural influence to Christianity's adversaries.
“If Christians do not care for the intellectual health of their own children and for the fate of their own civilization, a health and a fate so inextricably bound up with the state of the mind and spirit in the universities, who is going to care?”
— Charles Malik
Our hope and prayer is that students at Knox Classical School would never experience the "dearth of grace and beauty" plaguing our culture but instead learn from their earliest days that the God who is good, true, and beautiful holds all things together—and be ready to share with a lost and dying world that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
"Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand."
— Philippians 4:5
