Christian education is not merely religious instruction in the midst of otherwise secular subjects. It is not simply having Bible classes, student and teacher prayer, or teachers who are Christian. The end purpose of all education is to know, glorify and enjoy God. Education in and of itself will do nothing to change the heart of a child or society in general. It is out of the heart that the wickedness of man flows and only God changes hearts. In contrast to popular trends, we must base Christian education on the conviction that everything that is taught, all classes, including reading, writing and arithmetic be taught from an inherently theistic, or God-centered, perspective.