Cornelius Van Til on Christian Education (Reformed Quote)

And what is true of the teachers is true also of the ministers with whom the teachers must cooperate. We need ministers who believe in Christian education not only after a fashion but with all the passion of their souls. We need ministers who not only say that Christian education is a nice thing, a sort of luxury, but who say and show with their deeds, that they believe Christian education to be the only education that is fit for a covenant child. I speak of this with shame. Must we as ministers of the gospel lag behind in our grasp of the rationale of Christian education? Must we who preach the gospel of redemption from eternal woe be told that this gospel of redemption implies the destruction of sin along the whole front of our conscious lives? And who of us will say that there is not a great field yet to be conquered by us in the way of a deeper grasp of the truth and the power of victory in the Christian faith which we have embraced? And think not that I forget the man who is neither teacher or preacher. All of us must stand together as one man. In this day when boundaries between the believer and the unbeliever are so generally wiped away we should seek to mark those boundaries anew and mark them well. We should seek to mark these boundaries not with chalk that disappears with the first rainstorm that comes, but we should try to mark these boundaries with indelible ink on the hearts of those who believe.

- Cornelius Van Til, Essays on Christian Education