Welcome to the Get Wisdom! Education Program

By Ronald Kirk

The Get Wisdom! Biblical Education Program results from over forty years of Biblical and historic study of educational purposes, theory, and crafted classroom practice. It is an everyman’s approach to a complex subject, proven accessible to anyone over decades.

Welcome to the Get Wisdom! Education Program introduces this ground-breaking work including fast-track training toward systematic and specific Biblical thinking and action for any life subject or topic. Welcome introduces the entire applied Biblical thinking education program.

As we likewise do for the school subjects, Welcome offers a Quick Start preparation for harried teachers, while the Go Deep training quickly prepares the serious teacher in the critical relational and economic areas of life. By economic we mean everything to do with the knowledge and arts of life. Then, all the strategic life subjects we call school subjects—literacy, mathematics, history, literature, natural science, Bible, and musicianship and composition complete the foundations for most free, just, and productive life in Christ possible. Therefore, this program is not only for the classroom teacher, but anyone desiring self-consciously to forge his life’s character and purpose around his own unique gifts and calling—in his vocation and every area of life.

The go deep portion of this training starts with Get Wisdom! Making Christian Heroes of Ordinary People, published separately. Get Wisdom! reestablishes the Biblical vision, now almost, for life once common in America, and restores the spiritual and intellectual tools required. For over twenty-five years, we quickly and very successfully trained excellent classroom teachers in a matter of months.

School and Classroom Principles and Methods, also published separately, then applies the practical worldview training of Get Wisdom! specifically to the education. Principles and Methods restores the historic Biblical educational Knowledge, Wisdom, Skill, Character, Faith, and Stewardship of Society required for a complete, Biblical Christian walk.

The Get Wisdom! Biblical Education Program essentially applies the Bible’s relational requirements to the educational process. God is One and Three Persons, of perfect individuality in perfect mutual relationship. In turn, God imposes unique individuality in relationship to all things. The Gospel of Christ is God’s means of restoring relationship—first with God, then with our neighbor, and then with creation which groans for deliverance from its futility through the revealing of the sons of God.

This understanding gives tremendous power toward the understanding and mastery of every school and life subject, every human endeavor. It also reveals the way God establishes every human relationship on the ground of love. God’s Principle of Individuality with Union provides the power of mastery over every school and life subject, and insight to handle diversity in the classroom for the benefit of every student.

Little by little, we will roll out the school subjects. Our complete literacy program—phonics, spelling, reading and grammar—comes first.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ronald Kirk
• Release date: Nov 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005699239

Ronald Kirk

Replacing atheistic behavioral psychology with an updated historical Biblical educational philosophy, Ron Kirk developed and tested custom teacher training and curriculum and classroom teaching of the school subjects in every grade from kindergarten to adult. Ron carefully identified educational purpose, methods, and strategic content, with startling results regardless of native gifting or educational experience. Challenged young people overcome toward remarkable accomplishment. Children and adults with poor education experiences likewise overcome their challenges, even dyslexia. Ready students soared beyond ordinary expectations, often advancing several years over their peers.

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Welcome to the Get Wisdom! Education Program

©2022 by Ronald Kirk and Get Wisdom! Ammon, Idaho

Applied Biblical Faith,

Christian Worldview Education Training

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Contents

Welcome to the Get Wisdom! Biblical Education Program

The Get Wisdom! Education Program—What It Is

The Get Wisdom! Education Program—How to Do It

Go Deep or Quick Start

Introduction to the Training Manuals

Quick Start Introduction to the Get Wisdom! Method

Quick Start to the Basic Classroom Teacher Training

School Subjects—Strategic Life Subjects

Get Wisdom! School Curriculum Development Outline through the Grades

Bible

Basic Literacy

Reading

Grammar

History

Literature

Mathematics

Natural Science

Economics

Foreign Language

Music

Physical Fitness

Graphic Arts

Supplemental Reading

Family

Education

Society, Economy, and Relational Government

The Bible and Christian Life

Welcome to the Get Wisdom! Biblical Education Program

Complete Biblical Education for Faith, Character, Wisdom, Excellence, Accomplishment

When sixth president of the United States John Quincy Adams was fourteen years old, after home schooling, the United States made him diplomatic secretary to the Russian mission upon his accomplishment, character, and his fluency in French, the Russian court official language.

Typical entry into Harvard College in the 1600s at around age fourteen required verbal and written mastery of Greek and Latin.

An American population of only 3,000,000 in the mid-1700s produced a world-class popular representative political leadership.

Every pastor received such a broad and deep liberal arts (liberty) education that they could apply the Scriptures to every subject in their sermons—and they did. The people therefore learned to apply the Bible to all of life—including law and politics, the arts and sciences, the home, business, etc.

By age ten, naturalist John Muir mastered three languages and scholarly abilities to enter college at about age twenty on a scholarship with no further formal education.

Conservative Book Club once asserted in an ad that a typical eighth grade master of the original Fourth McGuffey’s Reader had accomplished a literary ability equivalent to a master’s degree in the mid-1980s.

The Key

The Get Wisdom! Education Program offers a thoroughly updated historic Biblical approach to education with results hard to imagine in our age. This economical and effective approach to education only requires a little faith and perseverance to learn to think and act Biblically in all we do.

This investment carries over to every subject and endeavor in life, because a few principles govern the universe of knowledge, skill, and wisdom.

Real education is not merely collecting knowledge, but gaining understanding, wisdom, faith, character, and real skills. The school subjects are strategic life subjects. Christian liberty and justice—doing right—are central to the faith of Christ.

Promises

• Regain lost evangelical tools

• Learn what the Bible requires of every man, woman, and child of faith

• Stir up your gifts from God

• Acquire the tools necessary to take every thought captive to Christ, for every activity in life

• Master any subject Biblically—for any vocation or avocation

• Become a Christian hero in ordinary life through an overcoming faith

• Learn time-tested Biblical principles and practices for teaching and learning

• Prepare for the Christian citizenship required for the Gospel work

Figure 1 The PEERS Test by Nehemiah Institute measures Biblical thinking in the areas of Politics, Economics, Education, Religion, and Society.

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Though perhaps difficult to conceive, every one of the following has actually happened in recent years and we should expect by faith.

Get Wisdom!℠ Biblical education promises…

• Regain lost evangelical tools

• Learn what the Bible requires of every man and woman of faith

• Acquire the tools necessary to take every thought captive to Christ, for every activity in life

• Master any subject Biblically—for any vocation or avocation

• Acquire an overcoming faith

• Learn time-tested Biblical principles and practices for teaching and learning

• Prepare for the Christian citizenship required for the Gospel work

• Though perhaps difficult to conceive, every one of the following has actually happened and we should expect by faith.

Imagine…

• Restored families through a church or school ministry

• Five-year-olds who love learning and capable of self-government

• Early literacy and mathematics mastery—emphasizing effort by faith, not the duress of achievement

• A school successfully running on a Biblical, relational family model, rather than the mainstream institutional one

• The poorest African orphans becoming Christian moms and dads, and leaders of their country

• A childish kindergartner incapable of play or serious work, sullen, dyslexic, and with a speech impediment. In one year, she became literate at a second-grade level and overcame