The Southern Baptist Academy Blog

By Mimi Rothschild

Ok, this is the last post on the New Scientist article. I promise!

The article goes on to cite E. Ray Moore of the Exodus Mandate, one of this generation’s greatest proponents of homeschooling as a tool for evangelism.

“If we could get up to 30 percent of public-school students into home-schooling and private schools, the system would start to unravel and at some point implode and collapse,” he says. “The government would be forced to get the states out of the education business altogether. It would go back to the churches and the families. It’s a strategy for the renewal of society.”

Amen to that! What an inspirational strategy. Imagine how this shift would strengthen the moral fabric of our nation. Moore relates his strategy in which each homeschool family persuades one other family to embrace homeschooling. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this would double the homeschool community with each passing generation.

I pray every day for such a societal shift. In all honesty, I would love to see the public school collapse. The church would be able to educate the poor and disadvantaged charitably, as is its call. It doesn’t stop there. A mass movement of this magnitude would also overturn many policy decisions that are supposedly set in stone. Who knows, with thousands of PHC graduates filtering throughout the country, we might see some serious political and judicial change take place in the near future.