Our educational philosophy
Homeschool offers an opportunity to throw open your idea of education and craft something that is unique to your family and each individual child. As such, it is incomparable to even the most expensive, exclusive education out there.
Each child has immense capability for learning, even if that learning looks different than what we expect or have been led by our current culture to believe education "should" look. As parents, we should think about how to provide the conditions and resources that maximize each child's ability to educate himself or herself, developing and encouraging a sense of interest, wonder, and curiosity.
Each parent has the capability to facilitate resources, model curiosity and interest in a wide variety of subject matter, and demonstrate a love of reading and of learning for their children.
The goal of education
While we encourage all families of any worldview to find support and resources at KMA, education is never neutral. Every parent, every teacher, every classroom, every curriculum, and every student is shaped by a worldview. A worldview is the underlying framework of assumptions about truth, reality, morality/ethics, and the human person that each of us uses to make sense of the world. Or as Chuck Colson once put it, a worldview is "the sum total of our beliefs about the world."
We believe a biblical worldview provides the best explanation for the world as it actually is. Therefore, the goal of education is to create lifelong learners who
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Seek, recognize, and love truth and therefore the creator of truth, the Living God who has revealed himself generally in Nature and specifically in the library we call the Bible
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Respond by loving and worshiping him with their entire beings, according to all he has revealed
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Live in the hope secured by the resurrection of the Messiah and God's promise of renewal, understanding that God has called them to this particular time and place within His redemptive story
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Root their identity in the inherent dignity, purpose, and value they have as beings made in the image of God, restored to us through the atoning death and resurrection of the Messiah
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Discover their purpose and talents within a context of worship and service leading to a life stewarded for kingdom purposes in this particular time and place in history
Read an excellent article discussing the goal of education here, as articulated by John Stonestreet of the Colson Center's Breakpoint.