# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S431
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

is possibilities. “Under this emergency, self-preservation
dominant consideration. This fusion of ideals and practical

or the ‘past. ten to twenty years.

beak education at Austin, Tex., and co-education as well ‘as
F higher education at Bronxville, N. Y., and Oakland, Calif., are
rovisional: basis. The synodical convention of 1938 resolved
yithout additional . net, cost to Synod a further experiment
© made in general higher education and ‘co-education at
‘dia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y., and Concordia
Oakland, Calif.”

B. General Principles

is, in brief, is the development of general education and
tion in Synod’s institutions today. The problems of general
mi’ and’ co-education undoubtedly. present some of the: most
tant questions confronting Synod at the present moment. . Their
ition: requires . careful judgment, a constant consciousness of
od’s major purpose in maintaining its schools, and an absence of
‘onsiderations of local loyalties, laudable and understandable. as
miay be in themselves. Synod is here confronted with a matter
ic educational policy. It is not merely a question of accepting
ndful of general students here or there. Rather the fundamental

or colleges, either in conjunction with, or “separate from, pro-
sssional training for service in the Church. The issue can be
€h ified, and Synod can chart a course for the future only on the
is of aell-defined principles.

‘The educational policy of Synod must be rooted in Scripture.
cording to the divine Word, parents and congregations share the
fesponsibility of bringing up their children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord. The child belongs to the parents by natural right
as. a gift of God; it is a member of the invisible Church and of the
local congregation ‘through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. The
mandate to bring up the child in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord must be carried out. Nor has Scripture placed any age or time
itations on this command.

«heEhe ideal of the congregation’s program of education should be the
complete training of every member under the auspices of the Church.
‘Experience has demonstrated-that the most satisfactory and effective
afrangement is undoubtedly the complete educational program which
complements the Christian home in elementary schools, high schools,
and colleges’ conducted within the Church. ‘The important considera-
tion ‘for parents and congregations should be to strive for this ideal
and. to make arrangements for that.manner and: method of education
which catries the greatest promise of success.

” Report of Board for Higher Education - 431

ely. directed. the course which our educational system has:

roblem is the creation of academies or high schools, junior colleges,