What is the cost of removing the fear of God from our children’s education? Kevin Swanson explains that because we have abandoned the fear of God in our educational institutions, every sphere of life is negatively impacted. Parents neglect their responsibility to teach and train their children and hand it over to the schools. Schools in America claim to teach children knowledge, but what is that knowledge based upon? What is that foundation upon which children are taught? Instead of teaching our children the fear of God, schools remove God and prayer from their curriculum and advance an educational agenda completely devoid of God. It is no surprise that countless graduates of these schools have turned their backs on God. Colossians 2:8 (NKJV) – “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.”

This is the crux issue when it comes to education. This is the reason for the breakdown of our political state. This is the ultimate cause of the takeover of humanism in all of our culture. It's because we have abandoned the fear of God as the beginning of knowledge in our education systems. When you walk into an educational institution, some public school, private school, and you're considering delegating something in the education of your child to that institution, you ask two questions.

First question, What do you guys do here? If they say we just changed tires, probably not a school. If they say, yeah, we're a school, we teach knowledge. You say, well what do you then teach to be the foundation of all knowledge and wisdom and understanding? If they say, we teach the fear of God as the beginning wisdom and knowledge, you're probably heading in the right direction.