A Christian Philosophy of Education

Christian missionaries were responsible for building all of Japan’s great mission schools with the belief that “all of wisdom and understanding is found in Jesus Christ,” (Colossians 2:3).1 Fukuoka Jo Gakuin was started in a church in 1885, because the church members wanted their daughters to be taught the principles of Christian education.2 The main objective then of mission schools started by the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was to raise up “Christian workers, efficient workers, to make successors” who would carry the Gospel throughout the islands of Japan.3 This was carried out successfully “with the foundation of the Christian Scriptures and the great principles of Christian ethics” and the Bible as “a daily text-book in all departments of school and college work.”4 The Biblical worldview of Christian education as the basis for all academic training is shared in this paper.