ABHE’s collective understanding regarding the essence of our educational approach has become crystallized in terms of the following four concepts:  biblical, transformational, experiential, and missional. In my previous post, I asserted that when we describe education as biblical we mean that we engage intentionally and pervasively in education that involves extensive and serious study of the text of God’s eternal Word based on our conviction that the Bible is infallible, essential, authoritative, and understandable.

There are many derivations of the old saw, experience is the best teacher coming from philosophers and pundits ranging from Julius Caesar, to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Soren Kierkegaard, and Oscar Wilde, to name a few. More recently, MRI-based neurological studies have validated the learning theories of David Kolb and others that experience is integral to true learning.