Katherine
Dang
The First Things to Learn and Teach About History
History is God working. From this Providential view of history, one concludes that there is one plan, one Savior, and one goal for all men and nations.
12:00 p.m. -
1:00 p.m.
The Rudiments of Language and Six
Styles of Writing
Building
upon the biblical principles for the use of language, the inspiration
for writing is drawn directly from Scriptures. Teachers and students
are directed to the Scriptures as the model of excellence for all writing
or compositions. All writing begins with the idea of the paragraph.
Beginning composition exercises with three sentence paragraphs and progressing
to five and seven sentence paragraphs is recommended for the beginning
learner.
3:10 p.m. - 4:10
p.m.
The
First Things to Learn and Teach About Government
Government
is God’s idea and is simply direction, regulation, control and restraint.
Man was created to be governed by God alone, but man will either be governed
internally or externally. “Christianity astonished the world by establishing
self-government.” (Verna M. Hall) The degree in which individual
self-government is practiced determines the degree of direction, regulation,
control and restraint exercised by civil government.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00
p.m.
America’s “Political Scriptures”:
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and
Washington’s Farewell Address
The
justness of America’s domestic and foreign policies are meant to
be measured by the biblical principles of three of her founding documents.
The spirit of, the letter of and the obedience to these principles of
government are established in the Declaration of Independence (1776),
the Constitution of the United States of America (1789), and Washington’s
Farewell Address (1796), to which all Americans are bound to practice
by original consent, until and unless the people dissent and amend them.
1:00 p.m. - 2:00
p.m.
Teaching
Biblical Reasoning from the Bible
The
art of self-government is the art of biblical reasoning, of being independently
dependent upon God and His Word. The aim, content and the approach of
teaching biblical reasoning from the Bible are laid out, along with sample
lessons.
Why the History of America and the History of Christianity Cannot Be Separated
American Christianity is the outgrowth of the course of the Gospel, of the maturation of Christian thinking and reasoning on the subject of government, and of the will of God in the government of men and of nations.
The Rudiments of Literature and Literary Analysis
The teaching of literature has a two-fold purpose: cultivating the natural affections and arriving at truth through a close examination of a book, for literature is learning from books. The dry bones of book reports more often than not kill the love of reading of literature. Literature is principally learning from books through a study of books. All literature has literary elements: an author, his style, scene or setting, plot events, characterizations and most importantly, a theme. Teaching readers how to identify these elements for themselves is teaching them to reason and learn from books for themselves. A student can teach himself from a book if he knows how to read and learn from it. From his own book study, a student also learns to formulate and express his own original ideas.
The Scholarship of the American Christian Home
Cultivation of the mind, of biblical intelligence, primarily belongs and begins in the home (1 Timothy 3:15). The decline in individual scholarship and the growing disposition in the nation toward intellectual dependency is in proportion to the extent to which American Christians have neglected their responsibility for the mental education of their children. What did the fathers and mothers of the Colonial period know to do? And how was it done? In the records of history are found the habits of home that were responsible for establishing self-government of the individual as America’s form of civil government. By looking to the historic records for examples of scholarship, one can hope to raise a standard of mental instruction for the modern day American Christian, that he may reclaim himself, his home, his church and his local governments from socialism and restore the Constitutional Republic to its biblical foundations.