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April 11, 2024


Title: Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)


Part 1 of 3

Dr. Joel T. Satterly has served in Christian Education for more than two decades across five schools in several major markets. Dr. Satterly previously served as President of Christian Schools of Florida and currently serves as Headmaster of Westminster Academy. He is also a contributor to the Institute for Faith and Culture.

Click here to read Dr. Slattery’s op-ed “Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology”.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

How is faith shaped while sitting in a classroom for 16,000 hours?

Is the proper role of education theological or ideological? What is teaching from an ideological perspective? Dr. Satterly explains how this approach pushes conditioning and propaganda.

Does the societal pursuit and implementation of a particular ideology require force?

How has public education drifted so far from subjectivism to relativism, to postmodernism, and to our current hyper-individualistic partisanship? Dr. Satterly gives a brief history of education in America.



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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is theological based education? Dr. Satterly explains how it is systematic and more organic, saying: “Simply put, it’s the way things were supposed to be.”

Which path of education deals with no absolute truths?

Do engineers understand absolute truths when constructing a highway or building a home?

In a parable, did Jesus compare building a house on sand as compared to a firm foundation? Dr. Satterly gives another great analogy in answer to this question.



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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Did CS Lewis unpack the education dichotomy, theological vs. ideological, in his great book: “The Abolition of Man”?

Are we currently building a society filled with “men with no chests”?

Do we need a society that produces men who pursue virtue and enterprise? Dr. Satterly urges parents to really examine what type of education their children are receiving.

Click here to help support the Institute for Faith and Culture.



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April 9, 2024


Title: Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)


Part 1 of 3

Dr. Joel T. Satterly has served in Christian Education for more than two decades across five schools in several major markets. Dr. Satterly previously served as President of Christian Schools of Florida and currently serves as Headmaster of Westminster Academy. He is also a contributor to the Institute for Faith and Culture.

Click here to read Dr. Slattery’s op-ed “Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology”.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

How is faith shaped while sitting in a classroom for 16,000 hours?

Is the proper role of education theological or ideological? What is teaching from an ideological perspective? Dr. Satterly explains how this approach pushes conditioning and propaganda.

Does the societal pursuit and implementation of a particular ideology require force?

How has public education drifted so far from subjectivism to relativism, to postmodernism, and to our current hyper-individualistic partisanship? Dr. Satterly gives a brief history of education in America.



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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is theological based education? Dr. Satterly explains how it is systematic and more organic, saying: “Simply put, it’s the way things were supposed to be.”

Which path of education deals with no absolute truths?

Do engineers understand absolute truths when constructing a highway or building a home?

In a parable, did Jesus compare building a house on sand as compared to a firm foundation? Dr. Satterly gives another great analogy in answer to this question.



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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Educational Foundation: Ideology or Theology
Topic: Public Education
Discussed by Dr. Joel Satterly
with Institute for Faith and Culture (www.institutefc.org/)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Did CS Lewis unpack the education dichotomy, theological vs. ideological, in his great book: “The Abolition of Man”?

Are we currently building a society filled with “men with no chests”?

Do we need a society that produces men who pursue virtue and enterprise? Dr. Satterly urges parents to really examine what type of education their children are receiving.

Click here to help support the Institute for Faith and Culture.



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