Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Michael Farris:
Government wants to be all things to all people, but Christians are beginning to understand the importance of returning the functions of our society to the right institution.

Take welfare, for example. We recognize that government has done an abysmal job in providing needed help to the poor. Both the taxpayers and those receiving welfare are better off when welfare is handled by families and the church.

We need to ask ourselves a similar question about education: to what institution does God give the responsibility for educating our children?

The answer to that question is the same in both the Old and New Testaments. In Proverbs 1:8, for example, it says, “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” And in Ephesians 6:4 we're told, “Fathers, do not exasperate your children . . . bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

The government is never commanded by Scripture to teach children. All the commands in Scripture concerning the teaching of children are directed to parents. Homeschooling has had higher academic results than either public or private schools, and the spiritual and moral results make it clear that homeschooling is indeed excellent.

This is Michael Farris.