20 years ago – October 23, 1995
There are many kinds of education, nearly all of them affirmed by the Reformed family. There are educational institutions that emphasize research, … dispense information, … prepare students for the professions, … train in needed skills, … stress enrichment and those that provide basic literacy. The Reformed churches have been engaged in all of these educational endeavors and many others, but what they have in common is the conviction that education should be transformational in character. … We understand educational mission as joining with God in the “people-making” business, caring about individual students and assisting them to become all that God intends them to be. We believe that truth and skill are liberating, that they set people free to achieve their full potential, and that the educational process helps people to discover their God-given vocation. …So we as Reformed and Presbyterian Christians engage in educational mission perhaps our most distinctive characteristic as a faith family, believing that we are responding to the command of Jesus to “Go …teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:18-20).
From “Transformational education” by Duncan S. Ferguson
