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Frances Patterson, an assistant professor at Valdosta State University, says that “textbooks and materials used in Christian schools are clearly biased toward a conservative fundamentalist outlook.” She, of course, meant this as a criticism. To the Christian educator, however, it should be a compliment to his testimony, not a worry, that a secular humanist recognizes a significant difference between a Christian worldview and the secular. Secular texts are biased too.
Is There a Solution?
The liberal attacks do serve a purpose: they keep Christian publishers on notice. Christian materials must be exactingly written, use good pedagogical teaching and learning methods, and have excellent craftsmanship—in all student texts, teacher editions, and ancillary materials.
“As the Author of all knowledge and wisdom, God is not pleased by shallowness, superficiality, and shoddiness... The
Christian school principal is not satisfied with picking the spiritually strong but academically weak book over the one that is
academically superior but offers little spiritual emphasis. He instead searches for those books that excel in both areas.”
–Guenter Salter, "What makes a Christian School 'Christian'?"