Educating a student to live and work in the 21st century and beyond is no longer just about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Students need to learn to problem solve, think critically and creatively, and communicate their ideas to others. This approach to learning encompasses lititz area
Mennonite
school’s mission of educating to meet the needs of the whole child.
Educating the whole child means we are not only stretching students’ minds, but we are teaming with home and church to guide their spirits and grow their bodies in as many areas as we can. First thessalonians 4:23-24 as well as hebrews 4:12 are both examples of how god has created us with mind, body, and spirit.
I walked into town. It was a perfect, crisp fall day. Everywhere i looked there were either amish people, or people staring at the amish. A big yellow school bus roared up the street.
It was full of adorable amish children, with their bonnets and bowl cuts, peeking out the windows. Now i was staring too. “do
mennonite schools council (msc) is a network of mennonite early childhood through grade twelve schools committed to supporting christ-centered anabaptist education through networking and resourcing schools. Member schools share a commitment to value-added education that promotes excellence and teaches from a christ-centered foundation. In the classroom, on an athletic field, out in the community, or in the lunchroom, msc schools are instilling christ’s way of peace, reconciliation, and service. Whether a student is in preschool, elementary, middle or high school, mennonite education is making a positive difference! msc is led by an executive committee comprised of appointed msc school administrators.
Dick benner | editor/publisher the case for mennonite schools is an increasingly complicated one as the values of our religious system and that of the dominant culture, of which we are a part, both change. On the one hand, the vision of church leaders and parents to instill and formulate distinctive anabaptist values, beginning at an early age (elementary school) and continuing through university and graduate-level theological training, is needed as much or more than when our immigrant parents wanted protection from government-controlled education with an agenda under suspicion. On the other, there is another theory that children and young people, properly rooted in our core beliefs learned at home and church, are better tested in their faith formation with integration into the larger culture of public schools and universities.