“THE SHAPING OF A PERSON’S
WORLDVIEW IS A MAIN GOAL OF
ALL EDUCATION.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A
NEUTRAL EDUCATION.”
John A. Hughes puts it this way: “God-honoring educa-
tion will assist the Christian in this mental renewing process
by providing a foundation of worldview assumptions and by
cultivating logical thinking processes, habits or analysis, and
patterns of evaluation that are distinctively biblical.”
The shaping of a person’s worldview is a main goal of all
education. There is no such thing as a neutral education.
Secular education is based on a man-centered worldview
where God is either ignored or blatantly denied. Man is the
ultimate authority, and every individual determines what
they should become. Secular education aims to make all
students function well in a completely secular society. This is
exactly what King Nebuchadnezzar wanted to accomplish in
the lives of a select group of Hebrew young people: “youths
in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intel-
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ligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understand-
ing and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serv-
ing in the king’s court; and he ordered him to teach them the
literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king appointed
for them a daily ration from the king’s choice food and from
the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be
educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the
king’s personal service” (Dan 1:4-5).
Ravi Zacharias makes a bold statement about the goal of
every educational effort in his book Deliver Us From Evil:
“And for centuries politics has dabbled in the deadly game of
social engineering. The whole point of state-controlled educa-
tion is that it gives to the government the power to shape
the souls and write on the fresh slates of young hearts. This
empowerment is the most important trust given to elected offi-