Brad Green, in Shaping a Christian Worldview, recounts the court case Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) in which an Amish witness was being pressured to admit that the purpose of education was fundamentally secular. The prosecuting attorney asked Mr. Yoder, “The principal purpose to attend high school is to get education, is it not? Isn’t that the primary purpose?” The Amish gentleman replied, “Yes, but I think there is a great deal of difference what education means—education for what?” The attorney pressed his point, “To put it bluntly, education so the child can make his or her place in the world.” Mr. Yoder then astutely observed, “It depends which world” (89-90).
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