E is for Education

In this episode of Preschool Pioneers, Jeremy Walker challenges the modern assumption that education is mainly about learning facts, arguing instead that all education is fundamentally religious and moral because it forms a child’s worldview, loyalties, and character. Drawing from R. J. Rushdoony’s The Messianic Character of American Education, he explains how government schooling historically advanced a humanistic “salvation through education” project that reshaped America’s beliefs over time, while warning that even alternative approaches like homeschooling can drift into humanism when they reject authority, discipline, and purpose. Jeremy calls Christian parents and teachers to pursue education that builds dominion-minded men and women—responsible, disciplined, faithful, and ready for marriage, work, and service—using academics as tools for righteousness rather than ends in themselves, and closes with Proverbs 4:1–19 as a blueprint for true biblical instruction.