Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Warrior

When you bring your kids up, you are protecting them for a time, not protecting them forever. You are protecting them for a time in just the same way that you protect your soldiers in boot camp while you're training them. But you don't move them from boot camp to a safer location. What you do is you train your soldiers in order to put them in harm's way. Where's the sound of battle? You want to instinctively move in that direction not the other direction. You want them to be able to handle what's thrown at them.

This is the rule of thumb. You say, 'When is my child ready to take on the secularists in the secular institution?... the workforce or at a secular [school] college or grad school ... when are they ready to do this?'

The answer is: they are ready to do it when someone who knows them and knows the instutution recognizes that WHEN THEY GO THERE, THEY ARE GOING TO DO MORE DAMAGE TO THE INSTITUTION THAN THE INSTITUTION IS GOING TO DO TO THEM.

It's not sufficient to say, 'I think we can send them there and they will survive.' Survival is not the point. This is a war. The point of a war is not to survive the war. The point of a war is to win the war.

So what you want to do is to say: 'If our graduates go to this place, will they be equipped to handle everything that's thrown at them and will they throw some things back that the institution itself will not be equipped to handle.'

-Douglas Wilson, What is a Christian Worldview?, ACCS Conference 2007