How One Homeschool Dad Built a Christian College in Oxford

Wow.

Yeah, so...

Yeah, the idea of Christian colleges, of course, that's kind of what a lot of our universities were originally founded upon here in the United States.

We've had to continue to redo our Christian colleges because they seem to always slip away from us somehow or other over a period of time, although you can still go walk over in Harvard and Yale and see their Christian heritage.

But, of course, they've got heretics in the classroom now.

Um, uh, but yeah, what, uh, what, what did you learn at new St. Andrews? Um, obviously they're a little bit smaller, uh, college here in the U S they were going through quite a bit of growth though, while you were there.

What are some of those, uh, ideas and things that you learned there that you're implementing in, uh, Selden college? Yeah.

So the,

the, the idea of, um, Like I said in the thing, the Christian higher education and a united faculty forming a particular student was very compelling within the context of a robust Christian community, obviously.

But just seeing the extension of the idea of Christian education that I was obviously convinced of, because I home educated my children, into the adult years, sort of that transition sort of confirmed something I had always said when I was home educating, that Christian education is a good in and of itself.

It's not simply a means of protecting your children, though it is that.

It's never less than that, but it's always a lot more than that.

And so New St. Andrews having that sort of robust understanding of Christian education as a good and of itself and particularly that the liberal arts and that rich Christian tradition of a liberal arts education which they adopted and adapted from the classical world Again, it was a new thing to me as a Brit because we had abandoned that along with Christian education and higher education.

And so seeing that the fruitfulness of a broad generalist education with a robust theological backbone was very striking.

And for myself as a teacher, having to... not be confined to my very narrow sphere of excellence that I, you know, spent my time doing in my default and being asked to expand and to apply that in areas where I didn't have as much teaching experience as before was both very fruitful for me as an academic and also fruitful for the students because suddenly they were seeing a topic that they may have... experience growing up in their home school environment or their classical school environment, but being taught by someone coming from a completely different perspective, because my background was Christian Hebraism.

So those are the aspects that really sort of struck me as I was at New St. Andrews, I think.

Wow.

Yeah, so...

Yeah, the idea of Christian colleges, of course, that's kind of what a lot of our universities were originally founded upon here in the United States.

We've had to continue to redo our Christian colleges because they seem to always slip away from us somehow or other over a period of time, although you can still go walk over in Harvard and Yale and see their Christian heritage.

But, of course, they've got heretics in the classroom now.

Um, uh, but yeah, what, uh, what, what did you learn at new St. Andrews? Um, obviously they're a little bit smaller, uh, college here in the U S they were going through quite a bit of growth though, while you were there.

What are some of those, uh, ideas and things that you learned there that you're implementing in, uh, Selden college? Yeah.

So the,

the, the idea of, um, Like I said in the thing, the Christian higher education and a united faculty forming a particular student was very compelling within the context of a robust Christian community, obviously.

But just seeing the extension of the idea of Christian education that I was obviously convinced of, because I home educated my children, into the adult years, sort of that transition sort of confirmed something I had always said when I was home educating, that Christian education is a good in and of itself.

It's not simply a means of protecting your children, though it is that.

It's never less than that, but it's always a lot more than that.

And so New St. Andrews having that sort of robust understanding of Christian education as a good and of itself and particularly that the liberal arts and that rich Christian tradition of a liberal arts education which they adopted and adapted from the classical world Again, it was a new thing to me as a Brit because we had abandoned that along with Christian education and higher education.

And so seeing that the fruitfulness of a broad generalist education with a robust theological backbone was very striking.

And for myself as a teacher, having to... not be confined to my very narrow sphere of excellence that I, you know, spent my time doing in my default and being asked to expand and to apply that in areas where I didn't have as much teaching experience as before was both very fruitful for me as an academic and also fruitful for the students because suddenly they were seeing a topic that they may have... experience growing up in their home school environment or their classical school environment, but being taught by someone coming from a completely different perspective, because my background was Christian Hebraism.

So those are the aspects that really sort of struck me as I was at New St. Andrews, I think.