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This collection of articles is curated to equip you with the knowledge and guidance you need to guide your family and church through the vital work of home education.

What are we thinking! – Part 4: Education/training/discipleship – from the source

By Mark Shepard, Planting Seeds to Renew America Contact Mark: 4organicEducation@gmail.com Part 2 of this article explored a free-market approach to education from a Christian worldview perspective. Part 3 listed practical action items and ideas to help move Part 2 toward a reality.  Below are a number of references that speak to the important role both parents and the church have in the education of children.  Godly training for children and adults is a theme that spans the entire Bible.  The...

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What are we thinking! – Part 3: Putting ideas into action

By Mark Shepard, Planting Seeds to Renew America Contact Mark: 4organicEducation@gmail.com Part 1 of this article made a case that every education option impresses a set of ideas into students. A free-market education model is the only option that allows parents to give their children an education consistent with the parents’ worldview. A free-market model can, and generally does, deliver a safer, better quality, more appropriate education at a lower cost than a monopoly-type state-controlled...

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What are we thinking! – Part 2: An example of free-market thinking in education

By Mark Shepard, Planting Seeds to Renew America Contact Mark: 4organicEducation@gmail.com Part 1 exposed many of the problems with the state-controlled public education system in our nation today and proposed moving to a free-market education system. Understanding that every education model is built from a core set of ideas and will produce students that think consistently with that particular paradigm, the key question is: From what perspective do you want your child to think? Regardless of...

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