Clark & Jain on education as discipleship

Clark and Jain state,

If education is conceived as discipleship, what are the broad outlines of Christian discipleship, especially for the youngest members of the body? In a phrase, Jesus calls his followers to faithful obedience--to imitate him as he imitates the Father. He does not encourage them to employ “critical thinking” or to doubt everything. Instead he challenges them to repent, believe, and obey. “Faithful obedience,” as Lesslie Newbigin points out, is a different educational model from “theory and practice,” for it integrates the theory as a result of practice. Faithful presence precedes understanding, or as St. Anselm put it, Credo ut intelligam: “one believes in order to understand.”

Clark, Kevin and Ravi Scott Jain. The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education. Revised ed. Camp Hill, PA: Classical Academic Press, 2019. pg. 218.