Freedom through education

Jul 02, 2012

photo courtesy NCU

At his instillation service recently, Northern Caribbean University President Trevor Gardner said the path to independence is found through education and not dependence on government. "Economic independence or any other form of independence will only come when we liberate our thinking from dependence on others and take a machete to the tree of dependence,” the Jamaica Observer reported him saying. [photo courtesy NCU]

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Education

While Adventists advocated primary education for children as early as the 1850s, it wasn’t until the 1870s that the then fledgling Adventist Church began to develop a denominationally-based school system. Adventists believe in the redemptive purpose of education. Adventist educators focus not only on intellectual growth, but also on mental, physical, social and spiritual health.

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1.7 million students study in the Adventist school system
The church operates three medical schools in the United States, Mexico and Argentina
Brazil and Nigeria are home to the church’s two law schools
The church operates 112 colleges and universities, almost 2,000 secondary schools and about 6,000 elementary schools worldwide

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