An “Education” Education

Session 343NAD Teacher’s Convention

Applying the Book “Education”in the 21st Century

Dr. Randy J. SieboldBroadview Academy, Prinicpal

OverviewThe 21st Century

“Education,” The Book

Our Story

The Broadview Academy Context

The Design Process

The Features/Results

Your Story

The 21st Century

Society Agrarian Industrial Information

Transportation Horse Train Plane/Car

Family Extended family Nuclear Family

Single-parent family

Business Family Bureaucracy Team-based

Education Home/Farm Current System ?

Bill Gates

“Our high schools were designed to meet the needs of another age.”

“America’s high schools are obsolete.”

“They cannot teach our kids what they need to know today.”

Over $700,000,000.00 toward “redesign and reform of America’s public high schools.”

Gage, Sun Microsystems

“Everything comes down to education....It must be at the absolute center of everything we do.”

“Education” The Book

White, E.G. (1903). Education. Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association.

“Education” The BookOur ideas of education take too narrow and too low a range. There is need of a broader scope, a higher aim. True education means more than the pursual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come (p. 13).

“Education” The Book

Every human being, created in the image of God, is endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator-- individuality, power to think and to do. The men in whom this power is developed are the men who bear responsibilities, who are leaders in enterprise, and who influence character. It is the work of true education to develop this power, to train the youth to be thinkers, and not mere reflectors of other men's thought (p. 17).

“Education” The Book

The system of education instituted at the beginning of the world was to be a model for man throughout all aftertime. As an illustration of its principles a model school was established in Eden, the home of our first parents. The Garden of Eden was the schoolroom, nature was the lesson book, the Creator Himself was the instructor, and the parents of the human family were the students (p. 20).

“Education” The BookFor ages education has had to do chiefly with the memory. This faculty has been taxed to the utmost, while the other mental powers have not been correspondingly developed. Students have spent their time in laboriously crowding the mind with knowledge, very little of which could be utilized. The mind thus burdened with that which it cannot digest and assimilate is weakened; it becomes incapable of vigorous, self-reliant effort, and is content to depend on the judgment and perception of others (p. 230).

“Education” The Book

True education is not the forcing of instruction on an unready and unreceptive mind. The mental powers must be awakened, the interest aroused (p. 41).

The Design Process

Significant prayer

One week

Nearly 100% participation

Mission-Infinity design process

Significant prayer

Mission-Infinity Model

BVA-CARES Curriculum

Centered in Christ

Active and Healthy

Ready for Life

Engaged in Learning

Socially Responsible

Activities

CompetitionsJournalsResearchPuzzlesStarting up a newspaperOrganizing newspaperAdministrating newspaperSeeing cause/effect relationships

Projects that require scientific methodQuestion generatingNew/changing applications of knowledgeSituations to practice decision makingModel good decision makingIll-defined problemsand more...

Features

Course competencies

Project-based learning

Mastery completion (not seat time)

Integrated family groups

Assessing achievement

Results

Course competencies

Project-based learning

Mastery completion (not seat time)

Integrated family groups

Assessing achievement

Now it’s your turn!

Any changes in your school?

1.!What was the change?2.!What prompted it? 3.!How did it work?

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