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Purpose of Education
Dufferin Christian School is owned and operated by members of the Canadian Reformed Church at Carman. These parents have established Dufferin Christian School so that the schooling provided will assist them in the fulfillment of the covenant promises made when their children were baptised.
Reformed education aims to realise this assistance by equipping the students to employ their talents in the service of God and His kingdom. To ensure that this most basic aim is realised, the following constitute the basis of the instruction given at Dufferin Christian School:
- The entire curriculum will be taught in obedience to the Holy Scriptures, the infallible Word of God as confessed in the Three Forms of Unity of the Canadian Reformed Churches.
- Each subject in the curriculum, taken in its own right, will have as its point of departure the cultural mandate, the command to subdue the earth as enunciated in the book of Genesis and elaborated upon in the entire Scriptures.
- All teaching will take into account that this cultural mandate is to be exercised in a world which is lost in the misery and guilt incurred by man's fall into sin, but overcome by the work of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Since it is the task of Dufferin Christian School to assist parents in educating their children from a Biblical perspective, it seeks to do so by:
· Teaching students that their calling in this world is to know God, their Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, and to honour and serve Him
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· Helping students grow into mature human beings, prepared to employ their talents in the service of their neighbors, at home and abroad, and in all areas of life
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· Assisting students in recognising their value and privileges as God's Covenant children, and reminding them that they are enabled by grace to respond in obedience to the call to serve.
· Helping students discern the pervasiveness and corrupting influence of secular values and philosophies, so that under the Lordship of Christ they may, with due humility, begin to think in a fundamentally Christian way about all aspects of life.
· Reminding students that this world has not been abandoned by God, that Christ has redeemed it, and that, therefore, their work as His followers and co-workers is of value for the restoration of God's Kingdom on this earth.
· Showing students that true knowledge and wisdom is only attainable in God, in knowing and fearing Him. Wisdom, knowledge, teaching, and learning are bound up with one's relationship to God.
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