The Importance of Adventist Education ( THE LOGOS )

By Julitte Sands, Principal of Bahamas Academy


Adventist Education cultivates and embraces biblical principles. It reinforces precepts taught in the Seventh-day Adventist home and church.   According to Ellen White in the book Education she says, “in the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one.”Therefore, integration of faith and learning is germane to every lesson, where students’ worldview of their Saviour becomes prominent and relevant to skills, behavior, and concepts honed. 

Adventist Education cultivates and embraces biblical principles. It reinforces precepts taught in the Seventh-day Adventist home and church.   According to Ellen White in the book Education she says, “in the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one.”Therefore, integration of faith and learning is germane to every lesson, where students’ worldview of their Saviour becomes prominent and relevant to skills, behavior, and concepts honed.  In addition, Week of Prayer and Day of Prayer are just a few imperatives that nurture students in the family of God.

  • Mental, physical, social and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to the world are values that form the philosophy of Adventist education. According to www.adventist.org “The Adventist interest in propagating education were founded upon the philosophy that students at all levels of schooling possess individuality and should be educated to use their God-given capacities to become individuals of principle, qualified for any position of life.”
  • Students and parents alike are grateful for a safe environment. Other educational systems constantly battle with violence, gangs and partying. Parents are constantly seeking a safe environment for their children and Adventist schools provide that atmosphere for them. Fundamentals of Christian Education states, “I am glad that we have institutions where our youth can be separated from the corrupting influences so prevalent in the present-day schools.”
  • Parents are pleased to know that discipline in an Adventist school is redemptive and not punitive. Students are encouraged to process their wrong doing and when discipline is administered it is done in a loving manner. Prayer is offered and students and the disciplinarian seek God to change the behavior.
  • Adventist staff members go above and beyond the call of duty. They instill in our children the importance and art of cognitive reasoning, instead of having them become mere reflectors of other men’s thoughts.  Adventist educators are unsung heroes and heroines. In our conference setting, a scholarship plan is sustained by staff members. This is a deliberate effort to assist students financially.
  • Students in Adventist schools have risen to a high level of competence as they compete in national competitions. Students at Bahamas Academy recently competed in the Accounting Bowl and were rated in the top three schools. Success in other competitions are too numerous to mention. Students often supersede our academic expectations.

Adventist Education accentuates Christ in its mission as we participate on the global stage. The documentation is replete with successes. In spite of this, a deluge of obstacles is stacked up by the enemy; but Adventist education still focuses on having the image of God restored in each student. This determination is internalized by each educator as a divine mandate and so the sustained effort to remain relevant cannot be lost.

Adventist Education, what an important resource to equip our students for this life and the life to come!

Mrs. Juliette Sands, Principal, Bahamas Academy


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