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How forcible are right words! —Job 6:25 Because God has given us the great commission of communicating His truth to mankind, we must give our students the finest tools available to carry out this goal in a reasonable, well-articulated manner. God gave us our powers of thought and language and chose to reveal His will and His ways to us in a written form, the Bible; thus we need to pay particular attention to the teaching of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, composition, and literature as we seek to educate students from a Christian perspective. Since Darwin, linguists have sought in vain…

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. —Proverbs 25:2 Science is the study of God’s order, provision, and reasonableness as revealed in His physical creation. While secular science textbooks present modern science as the opposite of faith, the A Beka Book science texts teach that modern science is the product of Western man’s return to the Scriptures after the Protestant Reformation, leading to his desire to understand and subdue the earth, which he saw as the orderly, law-abiding creation of the God of the Bible.

Mathematics is the language God used in His creation of the universe, and thus it is logical, orderly, beautiful, and very practical in science and in daily life. No subject matter better reflects the glory of God than mathematics. To study mathematics is to study God’s thoughts after Him, for He is the great Engineer and Architect of the universe. Unlike the “modern math” theorists, who believe that mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, we believe that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute. All of the laws of mathematics…

History is for time, what travel is for space; it is an intellectual journey across coeans and continents of duration, and of ages both remote from our own and vitalized and enriched by stupendous events. -Moses Coit Tyler Students need a realistic view of history, government, geography, and economics based upon the foundational truths of the Scriptures. Ever since H. G. Wells published his Outline of History in 1920, the theme of world history texts has been man’s supposed progress from savagery toward socialism, from tribal religions toward one-world government. American history is usually presented as a series of conflicts-rich…

The words were found, and I did eat them; and the words was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. -Jeremiah 15:16 The supreme goal of reading is that each person may read the Scriptures for himself. Children are what they read. They need Christian character-building reading materials from the very beginning. Phonics is employed as the most logical, orderly way to introduce reading to children. A Beka Book readers are the finest available anywhere. Our beautifully illustrated and imaginatively written readers present a strong Christian…