Informing Ideas

The Five Solas of the Reformation

• Sola Scriptura - Scripture alone
• Sola Gratia - Grace alone
• Sola Fide - Faith alone
• Solus Christus - Christ alone
• Soli Deo Gloria - Glory to God alone

The Seven Life Principles (from Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles)

• Design
• Authority
• Responsibility
• Suffering
• Ownership
• Freedom
• Success

The Habits of the Heart (from Charlotte Mason's A Philosophy of Education)

• Attentiveness
• Respect
• Responsibility

The Seven Liberal Arts (from Ancient Greece and sustained throughout the Middle Ages)

Trivium

• Grammar
• Dialectic
• Rhetoric

Quadrivium

• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Music
• Astronomy

The World View Template (from Nancy Pearcy and Donvan Graham)

• Creation
• Fall
• Redemption

The Four Pillars of Education (from Charlotte Mason)

• Education is an atmosphere
• Education is a discipline
• Education is a life
• Education is the science of relations

The Three Classical Virtues (from classical Greece and Rome)

• Truth
• Beauty
• Goodness

The Seven Laws of the Learner (from David Wilkinson's Walk Through the Bible)

• The law of the Learner: Cause to learn
  The teacher should accept the responsibility of causing the students to learn.

• The law of Expectation: Expect the best
  The teacher should influence students' learning and behavior by adjusting expectations.

• The law of Application: Apply for life change
  The teacher should always teach for the purpose of life change.

• The law of Retention: Master the minimum
  The teacher should enable all students to enjoy maximum mastery of the Irreducible Minimum.

• The law of Need: Build the need
  The teacher should build the need before teaching the content.

• The law of Equipping: Equip for service
  The teacher should train students for a life of service and edification.

• The law of Revival: Revive the heart
  The teacher should encourage an ongoing personal revival in students' lives.

Parenting Principals (from Ted Tripp's Shepherding a Child's Heart)