Tag: civic education
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What is a Secular Education?
In the U.S., states will only fund secular education. This is seen as necessary to uphold the separation of church and state. It’s actually a violation of it, and I will address that in another post. However, that’s not the point of this post which is to ask, “What do we mean by a secular…
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The Danger of Materialistic-Reductionism in Education (and What to Do About It)
It goes without saying that the physical is part of reality. We wouldn’t get very far denying that. However, is the physical all there is? Many people these days would answer “yes” or “probably” to this materialistic reductionism. It is the trend of modern cultural life, particularly in the West, and it has destructive, deadening…
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Explaining AI to Students Part 1 – How Does AI Function?
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In this post, we will focus on explaining AI to students by explaining it to you, the parents. This will be part one of a two-part series. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is not as new as many people think. Aircraft autopilots, automobile GPS’s, website algorithms to calculate airfares, Google searches, scientific research processes, and more have…
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How to Talk to Our Children about AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Many predict it will change human life as much as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Today’s youth are using it like wildfire. Just think of the temptations. They’re not only using it to do their homework, but they are asking it life advice and even in…
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Secular vs. Spiritual Education
In this post, we discuss secular vs. spiritual education and what matters most in this conversation. First of all, Enkindle Academy offers a secular curriculum. That means different things to different people. What we mean by “secular” here is a non-religious, non-sectarian, curriculum inclusive of diverse worldviews. In other words, it does not pressure students…
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Mission Statement
In charting new directions for Enkindle Academy, we have begun asking ourselves a few questions. Whenever starting something new, we’ve learned to start with the end and work backwards. Thereby, the ends weave themselves into the means. We can’t imagine a more sure method to ensure success. Who do we serve? This is the first…
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The Vital Role of Arts in Education
American society has long been questioning the role of arts in education. Are they necessary? As district budgets have tightened, arts have been the first to go in many cases. In fact, according to the Arts Education Data Project (AEDP), in the 2018–19 school year roughly 2.1 million U.S. public-school students lacked access to any…
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What is Educating for Freedom?
All parents want their children to become free human beings. Before we consider educating for freedom, however, we have to distinguish what human freedom is and is not. There are different definitions of freedom, some more outer and others more inner. (Although outer freedom from exploitation, racism, etc. is vitally important, it’s not the focus…
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How to Cultivate Creative Thinking in Our Students
In this post, we’ll continue last week’s thread by discussing the right approach for cultivating creative thinking in our students. The basis of creative thinking is intuition. New creation comes from what is unseen in the realm of new potential, possibility, and connections that have not previously been made. Intuition is exactly that which gives…
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Why Meeting Materialism in Education Matters
Materialism is woven into the fabric of society. Around every corner we find it in our economics, our adoration of the famous, our science and medicine, etc. It also seeps into our education. In the necessary separation of church and state, it has become the de facto assumption in curricula across the nation. Is this…