When you consider the power the economy has, and also consider at the same time the connection of science to the economy, it immediately becomes apparent that the Christian College, with its capacity to prepare students for the new economy emerging throughout the world has a prime view at the way the world develops, and access to the minds of the emerging technocratic business and political organization. The Christian college has the power to spread the gospel through the economy. It has the power to educate people who will be industry leaders and shape the organization of 3rd world nations. This power gives the Christian church the ability to have a great deal of influence.
What if the Christian college community decided, instead of pursing the bottom line, decided to try and reach as many people as it possibly could, with this inequality and desire of the "developing world" in view. What if Christians, the main figures behind the enlightenment (Locke, Newton, Harvard U, Oxford U), sought to use the knowledge and research to spread the gospel all over the world through offering free colleges and mixing education with the spread of the Gospel?
What i have in mind specifically, is something like this: You have a $60,000 UNIX server and $40,000 in multimedia as well as some Windows machines in a third world country on some cheap real estate. No need for a fancy quad, maybe you could spend $200,000 for one educational installation (I am not an expert on real estate and how much a big building would cost in Africa or Alabama). What if the Christian College world sought to establish education centers, where for a low price, you could have recorded lectures by PhD's, algorithmic business organization which minimizes costs and shrink the staff. The whole development would be organized with technology and efficiency in view, in order to try and reach the most people and build the most testing centers. How much of the liberal education project simply goes back to giving jobs to PhD's? This organization is built with the goal of reaching as many as possible.
If you could prepare electronically a database of the contents of a university (a big project), you could take that database and reproduce it all over the world. All you would have to change is the language.
If you could raise 1 billion dollars, after the project was all setup, at $200,000 an installation, you could create 5,000 installations. Each installation could aim to reach the area by offering a free, accredited education and mixing the education with the gospel.
Then, if you wanted to change intellectual currents in America, you would have a massive pool, if you tried to get the top 1% of each graduating class to enter into PhD programs in America and Europe. You could indoctrinate students in the ideology of the gospel, and fill up the American education system with evangelical Christians.
At the same time, you could use the database system to prepare online education that is completely free and accredited. As well as creating a free online education, you could use the database of educational technology to infiltrate the public education system. You could try and get each state to build a building which would house the Christian education system.
It is interesting to me, and also I feel from the Holy Ghost, who gave me a word "scalability". Computers and the internet are extremely scalable, it is possible to reach very large numbers of people using computers and multiply the number.
There is no reason that I can see, as a computer programmer by trade, that you could not use computers to educate 10% of the world population. The potential of this for missions is massive.
Please prayerfully consider about how your school can take advantage of online education technologies and using this to spread the gospel.
What if the Christian college community decided, instead of pursing the bottom line, decided to try and reach as many people as it possibly could, with this inequality and desire of the "developing world" in view. What if Christians, the main figures behind the enlightenment (Locke, Newton, Harvard U, Oxford U), sought to use the knowledge and research to spread the gospel all over the world through offering free colleges and mixing education with the spread of the Gospel?
What i have in mind specifically, is something like this: You have a $60,000 UNIX server and $40,000 in multimedia as well as some Windows machines in a third world country on some cheap real estate. No need for a fancy quad, maybe you could spend $200,000 for one educational installation (I am not an expert on real estate and how much a big building would cost in Africa or Alabama). What if the Christian College world sought to establish education centers, where for a low price, you could have recorded lectures by PhD's, algorithmic business organization which minimizes costs and shrink the staff. The whole development would be organized with technology and efficiency in view, in order to try and reach the most people and build the most testing centers. How much of the liberal education project simply goes back to giving jobs to PhD's? This organization is built with the goal of reaching as many as possible.
If you could prepare electronically a database of the contents of a university (a big project), you could take that database and reproduce it all over the world. All you would have to change is the language.
If you could raise 1 billion dollars, after the project was all setup, at $200,000 an installation, you could create 5,000 installations. Each installation could aim to reach the area by offering a free, accredited education and mixing the education with the gospel.
Then, if you wanted to change intellectual currents in America, you would have a massive pool, if you tried to get the top 1% of each graduating class to enter into PhD programs in America and Europe. You could indoctrinate students in the ideology of the gospel, and fill up the American education system with evangelical Christians.
At the same time, you could use the database system to prepare online education that is completely free and accredited. As well as creating a free online education, you could use the database of educational technology to infiltrate the public education system. You could try and get each state to build a building which would house the Christian education system.
It is interesting to me, and also I feel from the Holy Ghost, who gave me a word "scalability". Computers and the internet are extremely scalable, it is possible to reach very large numbers of people using computers and multiply the number.
There is no reason that I can see, as a computer programmer by trade, that you could not use computers to educate 10% of the world population. The potential of this for missions is massive.
Please prayerfully consider about how your school can take advantage of online education technologies and using this to spread the gospel.
