Any society has a right to expect positive and productive contributions from its citizens. Private schooling, when given the opportunity, plays a significant role in achieving this expectation. In addition to producing students with strong academic achievements, private schools focus on producing productive citizens who contribute significantly to the broader well-being of their societies.
Private schools also reduce the financial burden on government for the education of its citizens. Private schools achieve these benefits most effectively when they function from a firm philosophical foundation, when they partner with parents who have the opportunity to choose such alternative educational programs for their children, and when they educate from a basis of conviction for the overall academic, social, physical, emotional and spiritual development of their students.
Education plays a key role in strengthening society. Although education has taken various forms to address the desires and needs of a given culture, community or society, it is generally agreed that an appropriately educated society will be more productive. Its people will be more conscious of cause and effect, and thus more socially aware, and they will take greater responsibility for the well-being of others and the preservation of their country’s environment and natural resources.
An educated society promotes a sense of personal and national identity that results in greater social stability, a stronger sense of community, and a willingness to sacrifice in times of necessity. Positive cultural values enrich any society, and an educated society helps to perpetuate such values by developing students’ historical understanding and communicating the morals and ethics that the society chooses to promote.
The United States has a rich heritage of private schools, many of which originated years before the official founding of the nation. Throughout their country’s history, Americans have been aggressive and assertive about providing education for their children. One example occurred over 100 years ago in the western state of Idaho. A band of settlers in the Boise Valley had begun clearing the sagebrush to prepare the land for the crops they envisioned growing there. The settlers soon built their small church, and since the public schools were too far away, almost immediately developed a private school.
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