Seventh-day Adventist education
- Seventh-day Adventist education
The Seventh-day Adventist educational system is the second-largest Christian school system in the world, after the Roman Catholic system (see Catholic school).
It has a total of 6,966 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.3 million students world-wide.
The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s.[ [http://www.adventist.org/mission_and_service/education.html.en Education] on the church's official website] The church supports holistic education::"Mental, physical, social, and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to humanity form a core of values that are essential aspects of the Adventist education philosophy."]The "Journal of Adventist Education" (JAE) is published.
Education by level
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Education by area
North America
The North American Division [http://nadeducation.org Office of Education] oversees 1049 schools with 65,000 students in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda.
Asia
In some Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Adventist schools are referred to as "Sam Yuk" or similar, meaning literally "threefold". This refers to a holistic education involving the three components of "mind", "body" and "spirit/soul". Contemporary approaches commonly include a fourth component, "social".fact|date=October 2007
See also
* List of Seventh-day Adventist academies and elementary schools
* List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities
* Adventist studies
* "Journal of Adventist Education"
* Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Christian school
External links
* [http://www.adventist.org/mission_and_service/education.html.en Education] on the official church website
* [http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main_stat36.html A Statement on Theological and Academic Freedom and Accountability] , voted in 1987
References
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