This book echoes a warning and lights a pathway to the triumph of truth.
Education is the battleground. Righteousness will not come from governmentcontrolled secularized education and a media promoting self-indulgent
materialism. Thought-provoking essays in this book light up the way in for the
Christian community to engage with the world God loves, explaining solutions
that have worked in the past and offering new solutions that leverage advances
in technology and modes of delivery). Here is a way to launch a new revolution
in education.
Michael J. Mobley, Ph.D.
Professor and Executive Director for Research and Innovation
Grand Canyon University
A fierce battle is on for America’s soul. It will be won by whoever wins education.
This book lays out a fresh strategy for infusing truth, purpose and virtue into the
next generation. Bolstered by a rich understanding of history, philosophy,
sociology and theology, the book asserts that America’s freedom and worldview
foundations can be preserved and revitalized by a new reformation.
The book demonstrates that God has raised up a team of thought leaders to light
up the torch of truth to illuminate the path to a brighter future for our nation and
our world.
Dr. Ché Ahn
Founder and President, Harvest International Ministry
Founding and Senior Pastor, Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA
International Chancellor, Wagner University
Founder, Ché Ahn Ministries
This is the opportune moment for reforming education. Secularism is failing the
nations. The Church needs to step forward to complete Christ’s commission to
disciple the nations. This timely book shows how to do it.
Kevin Swanson
Author, Radio Host, Pastor
Director, Generations and Christian Home Educators of Colorado
obey the ways of the kingdom of God (Matthew 28). For the most part, we have
diminished this great mission to a compartmentalised assignment by dividing
some things as sacred and other things as secular; This is something that the
Bible never does. Tragically, the education system has also been a casualty in
this dualistic error. The body of Christ has allowed this place of divine
entrustment to become hijacked by forces that represent the gates of hell. In this
book, Vishal Mangalwadi and his team of world-class experts outline more than
just a lesson in history, philosophy and concepts of what should happen. I believe
that the book reads more like a war strategy manual and if embraced by the body
of Christ in this hour with a long term commitment, we can begin to reclaim this
place of kingdom assignment and commissioning. We must take this sector back
for the glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom on the earth. I
encourage you to read this book and also to prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit what
part He is asking you to play in championing the cause for Christ across the
education sectors of your nation."
David Balestri
National Convenor of the Australian Coalition of Apostolic Leaders
“The amoral power of indoctrination must end. A torch of renaissance, The Third
Education Revolution sparks reformation to recover sanity from decades of
darkness. As the mortal enemies of objectivity collapse, resurgence of ideological
freedom and imagination will commence. This collection of essays will refresh the
global conscience with truth, beauty, goodness, and wisdom. Biblically inspired
and Gospel motivated, this brilliant providence endeavors to salvage the faculties
of the soul, benefit the poor and privileged, and revitalize the world’s economy.
Pastors, professors, and parents who long to reverse the deadly chaos of
secularism, now is the time to ‘create a truth-based educational ecosystem’
whereby cultural confusion may heal and redeemed humanity may thrive. May
the King advance His Great Commission and excite Great Awakening by the
strategic influence of this work. Soli Deo Gloria!”
Dr. Samuel Musgrave
Pastor, Trinity Community Church, Clovis, CA
The Bible transformed societies because it was the foundation of Europe’s
medieval and modern education. Universities studied everything because the
disciple nations. It effectively pairs an education grounded in Scripture and
steeped in Biblical worldview with the best possible mentorships for our young
adults from the Christian community. Parents, students - let this book encourage
you and expand your vision with a doable long-term plan. Consider your
strategic part in this revolution. Hear the cry, heed the lessons and hone our
resources to begin affecting the change!
Karen Chen
Educator, homemaker, homeschooling mom
“Each day we ship our children off for seven hours to be profoundly influenced,
taught and raised by strangers. Should we be surprised, then, if our children act,
think and behave contrary to how we ‘raised’ them to walk with God? A war is on
for the souls of our children and the classroom is the primary battleground. If you
want your children to mature in knowledge of truth and their relationship with the
LORD, you have to take responsibility for what, when, where, how and why they
learn. This book shows the way for a better future for your childrens and nation.”
Dr. Albert Mu, D.O.
Family Physician, Part-time Homeschool Dad
Our universities actively promote a rigid, anti-liberal left-wing curriculum that is
certain to despoil our civilizations. Meanwhile, too many of our churches have
long since forgotten their responsibility to make known God’s greater wisdom to
rulers and authorities (Ephesians 3:10). This book offers an answer to both
problems, by challenging churches to re-discover their age-old mandate to be
“pillars of the truth” as they become centers for higher education that is truly
liberal and renews our civilizations. The third educational revolution that Vishal
Mangalwadi champions can come none too soon!
Robert Osburn, PhD
Senior Fellow, Wilberforce International Institute
Jesus commanded His followers to “disciple ALL nations” (Matthew 28:19). When
He gave me the seven spheres, he gave this Word: “These are 7 classrooms to
disciple nations.” One of the classrooms is Education. If we do not have a
revolution in our education we will lose many generations. Education and Family
are two of the most powerful ways for discipling nations. I know Vishal
Mangalwadi well. His books have been revolutionary. I commend all the other
Education is an implicit component of the Great Commission, and all education is
religious in nature. Vishal Mangalwadi and other scholars have shown in earlier
books, and also here, that the Bible is the source of much that we enjoy today in
the modern world, including science and technology, the arts, democratic
governance, etc. Today, the humanist academe has become the highway of
societal decay under oppressive technocracies. The ecclesia must accept that to
be salt and light in this world it has to reform the educational system. That is the
way to disciple nations and human flourishing. Tracing the history of
Christendom's previous education revolutions, this volume presents a plan for a
third revolution, leading the world to the way, the truth and the life.
Philip Panicker, PhD
Senior Lecturer of Engineering
(Mechanical, Aerospace and Electrical Engineering)
The Third Education Revolution boldly seeks to restore the soul of education in
which learning is the pursuit of truth and virtue. The book reveals why educators no
longer see teaching as a sacred calling. Why education has ceased being a civilizing
process to nurture ‘habits of the heart’ that discerns what is true, good and beautiful.
This visionary book explores how to restore schools as vital faith-based enterprises to
equip students with expertise in research, critical thinking and communications.
Students should be cultivated as thought leaders by providing an enriching and
blended curriculum of classic books and ideas that have impacted our world for better
or worse. Educations should be independent of governments in order to shun
politicization and indoctrination and do far more than merely prepare students for
jobs. It will foster education for the flourishing of the transcendent mind.
David J. Theroux,
Founder and President, Independent Institute
Founder and President, C. S. Lewis Society of California
God is on a serious reclamation movement to get His church from making
believers to discipling nations. As God takes us through this next kingdom
reformation, a key to the success and sustainability will be an education
revolution. The critical thinking and prophetic insight throughout “The Third
Education Revolution” should be considered necessary reading for every
Christian in this crucial time in history. I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about this
book and this movement.
Brian D. Beattie PhD
Pastor - Freedom House
CEO/National Director - Transform Our World - Canada
Partner - Global Transformation Collective
The Third
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CONTENT
Foreword — Dr. James Hwang M.D., PhD
I. The Third Education Revolution
1. Towards A Third Education Revolution — Vishal Mangalwadi
2. Three Teachers Who Made Our World — David Marshall
3. Loss and Recovery of Virtue in Education — Andreas Wieland
4. From Home-School to Church-College — Joe Suozzo
5. Blended Learning: Student-Centered Education — Amanda Forbes
6. From Rote Learning to Imaginal Education — Tom Rudmik
7. Academic Pastors: Recovering the Gift of Teachers — David Glesne
8. College-Pedia: A New Knowledge Ecosystem -- Ashish Alexander
9. God’s E-Mandate -- Giftson Selladurai
10. C. S. Lewis College -- David Bastedo and Gayne Anacker
11. The Business of Educating the Poor — Jason Benedict
12. The Revolution’s Intellectual Nucleus — Hans-Joachim Hahn
13. A 100 Year Vision -- Samson Selladurai
II. The Rise and Fall of Western Education
14. The Pietist Origin of the Modern University — Gottfried Sommer
15. How the Bible Educated America to Live in Liberty — Stephen Mcdowell
16. The University’s Failed Worldview: Secular Humanism — Karla Perry
17. The Fall of American Education — David Marshall
18. Intolerance in Postmodern University — Pablo Munoz Iturrieta
19. Kids in Contemporary Cultural Chaos — David McDonald
20. Reclaiming the Heritage of our Civilization — Gayne Anacker
III. The Great Commission to Educate Nations
21. The Great Commission and the Healing of the Nations - Bruce Friesen
Foreword
Dr. James Hwang, M.D, Ph. D
Chairman, Erom group
President of Loving Care Hospital
Chancellor of Kumi University
The desire for truth-based education is on the rise in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America. I know that as the Chancellor of Kumi University in Uganda
(Africa) and the Chairman of the Dream School in Korea. The Third
Education Revolution, written by visionaries from around the world
responds to a global need for a new paradigm of university education. It
calls for a fundamental reform of education.
A majority of the writers are inspired by Vishal Mangalwadi. I've known him
for more than 30 years. I discovered him while studying Christian worldview
in Labri Fellowship. I had the privilege of translating and publishing his
book about the pioneer of modern missions, William Carey (1761-1834), in
Korean.
Carey, a cobbler-turned-linguist and educationist led the Serampore
mission and college. His vision began creating an educational eco-system
that transformed South Asia. Vishal’s insights into how the Light of the
world dispelled India’s darkness became a great challenge to me. I was
able to see how the Gospel had also transformed Korea — my nation.
As an Asian, Vishal has a rare insight into western civilization from a solid
biblical foundation. His grasp of the biblical truth gives him a unique
framework to analyze the world. The essays demonstrate that insights
learnt from the Bible, educational history of Europe and its educational
mission is inspiring a global movement to reshape our future.
I applaud Vishal's insights into Europe’s first and second education
revolutions. These laid the foundations of the modern world. My own
experience of managing biblical curriculum and three-dimensional
education of "training-learning-inspiring" convinces me that the innovative
suggestions outlined in this book will have surprising results.
The war of worldviews is the frontline of spiritual warfare. This battle has to
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The Third Education Revolution
This kingdom education revolution will organize a global network of
scholars and professionals to create a truth-based educational ecosystem.
Ideologies will be examined without corrupting truth and morality. Education
will cease being indoctrination. It will open minds to discern what is true,
beautiful, good and wise.
Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) will create, edit, adapt and translate online
curricula from kindergarten to university. Professionals who know online
learning, test formation, lecture scripting, videography and worldview will
assist SME’s to create online curricula.
Internships in the community will help students develop vocational and
leadership skills.
Educational micro-financing will develop the capacity of resource-deprived
churches to become centers of education.AP’s will recommend needy
students for micro-financing to benefit from “Imaginal Education” (see
Chapter X) on their way to becoming future-ready graduates. Scholarship
funds and grants will supplement educational banking.
A new dark age has descended upon the world. Secularization has robbed
teachers of the respect that the Church had bestowed upon them. Teaching
is no longer a sacred calling. A teacher has become a vendor in an
educational shopping mall (university) where he sells his department’s
wares. In the absence of divine revelation, universities no longer know what
is logic or language, the difference between right or wrong, male or female,
marriage or family, nation or justice, self and God: an intellectual revolution
is required to restore the soul of education. Learning must earn public
respect as a pursuit of truth and virtue. If students go to college mainly
seeking pleasure, power, prestige or a license to get a job then the college
cannot expect any more respect than a club or a workshop.
Students must go to church-college to gather the best available
information. They must be helped to develop expertise in the art of
research, critical thinking and effective communication. They should learn
convictions. These included Desiderius Erasmus and reformers such as
Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, Philip Melanchthon, John Calvin, Theodore
Beza, John Knox and Andrew Melville. Their educational efforts inspired the
Council of Trent (1545–63) to transform a section of the Roman Catholic
Church into a global force for education.
Some chapters in this volume explain how the ‘obedience that comes from
faith’ (Romans 1:5; 16:26) turned scholars into reformers. They risked their
careers and their lives to champion truths that eventually became the faithfoundations of the modern world.
An obvious example is the “truth” of human equality. In Luther’s Open
Letter this truth became the divinely revealed foundation of education-forall. The belief that all men are “created equal” had never been “self-evident”
in any culture.
No study of hierarchical European society, divided between nobility, clergy
and serfs, could have taught a social scientist that all human beings were
equal. Martin Luther learned that truth from the Bible’s doctrine of the
priesthood and kingship of all believers. His “Letter” articulated the radical
idea that all men were created in God’s image, and all were sinners. The
Lamb of God was sacrificed because God loved the whole world. The
Gospel is that any sinner could become a child of God through repentance
and faith. Every child of God ought to serve his Father as a priest and
govern the earth to ensure that God’s will is done in his earth.
This theological seed of human equality sprouted and blossomed into a
principled - not pragmatic - policy of universal education. In the USA,
George Whitefield (1714-1770), the great revivalist of the First Great
Awakening, taught the truth of human equality most emphatically. His Bible
teaching made this peculiar and revealed truth appear “self-evident” to
America’s founders.
Roman Catholic monasteries, nunneries, cathedral schools and universities
had been educating priests since Europe’s first education revolution. They,
Obedience to the truth of human equality motivated Luther to transform
German dialects into a literary language by translating the Bible. The move
from Latin to German made it possible to educate everyone in their heartlanguage.
If every child is to know truth, then a child’s mother tongue should be the
language of primary education. Classical languages such as Latin,
Sanskrit, Literati Chinese and Arabic became barriers to widespread
intellectual development. They were the primary means of discrimination.
They kept the masses away from the centers of power.
Making the language of the people the language of learning is the matrix of
modern democracy. You cannot have a “government of the people, by the
people, for the people” unless it functions in the language of the people.
That phrase was popularized by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on
November 19, 1863, and the basic idea was borrowed by Sun Yat-Sen in
China. Few know that the phrase came from the prologue of the 1384
edition of Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible into medieval English.
It is important to understand why the revealed, non-self-evident truth of the
gospel became the source of modern ideas of human equality and political
liberties. In 1520, Martin Luther published three books. The first, Open
Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the
Reform of the Christian Estate, applied the truth of human equality to
education. The second, On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church,
examined how religion had become Europe’s source of slavery. His third
book was A Treatise on Christian Liberty. This book, dedicated to the Pope,
was published 12 years prior to Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince.
Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, saw politics as a pursuit of power. Luther, a
student of divine revelation, considered it a pursuit of liberty. He wrote at a
time when most Christians were bonded serfs in Germany. Luther’s Bible
study on Liberty began the West’s long quest for freedom because the
Bible began to be written when God liberated the Hebrews from slavery in
Egypt. Luther’s Bible study on Liberty culminated in the American