Children's Education

Train up a child according to the way he should go; Even when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Education is an all-round development. A human being is of three parts, body, soul, and spirit. To educate a person is to educate him in his three parts. Most people focus only on the soul's education. The secular and academic education is mostly of the mind and the body. There hardly has been any system of education developed for spiritual development. Therefore, to give a complete education, the three parts of man must be paid attention to, especially the spirit which is the most important part of man.

Physical education is being gained as a person grows physically in age and lives in a society imbibed with rich culture and tradition, or in other words, in a civilized society, then it naturally develops. For fine-tuning, special physical training on specific skills may be given from time to time based on the need and the interest of the person himself. One particular skill that I and my wife gave to our children physically is cycling. During the pandemic, we both took time out to train our children how to cycle. To our surprise they all learned cycling so fast, starting with our son, then our youngest daughter, and finally our eldest daughter. Now, cycling has become a part of their fun and exercise time. Similar skills have been imparted in sports; badminton is one of our family's favorites which we all could play together as a family. I consider all the physical housekeeping works of cleaning their dishes, sweeping and mopping the floor, folding their clothes, cleaning up their bed and study tables, cleaning toilets and rooms, etc.,  and learning to cook are other physical education we have been imparting to our children,

On the academic side, we have given our best for their learning. My wife has been very strict in overseeing all our children's academic learning. Daily she spends time with all the three of them and makes sure they learn their lessons well and are also well prepared for exams, not to merely pass, but to secure the highest mark possible. By the Lord's mercy, all the three have been doing very well in their studies. They have developed the habit of studying and doing their works daily. All of them are laboring hard to finish all their assignments and projects on time. As we care for their academic excellence, we also prayed for the Lord's wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to be theirs, and that all must their learnings must be ultimately used for the Lord's service one day. 

Last week our son and daughter earned an award each from the school for their outstanding academic performances for the year 2019-2020 in their respective classes. My son was awarded, "All Round Excellence" and my youngest daughter, "Academic Excellence and First Position." We thank and praise the Lord for blessing our children with academic excellence in the midst of unbelieving students and teachers. All glory to God! Besides these, they also brought home certificates for performing well in extra-0curriculum activities. Our son and youngest daughter are interested in Maths and Science Olympiads and Quizzes, and our eldest daughter is interested in arts and English literature. Within our capacity, we have given our very best to our children with the view that they all will be useful to the Lord, to serve the Lord, and bear the Lord's testimony one day. 

Much more, we pay very much attention and importance to our children's spiritual education as well. Daily, we taught them to call upon the Lord Jesus's name, pray and read the Bible, attend our family prayer, pray-read and memorize and recite Bible verses, and attend important church meetings with their children meeting. All the education in the body and soul is 100% incomplete without the education in the most important part of human being, the human spirit. Therefore, as parents, we pay much attention to our children's spiritual education. This most important spiritual education has been neglected the most in the world, either ignorantly or rebelliously. This, Christian parents must pay heed to.

Education means all-round and all-inclusive learning and development. No part of man can be left unattended. The spirit and the soul and the body must all be taken care of and trained. And the goal of such all-round development is that man will become a vessel useful to God, to contain God, and to express God.

As parents, our utmost responsibility to our children is, train them up according to the way they should go; according to the way of the Bible.

Lord, grace us to be a proper God-man parent.