Parents who love their children want the very best for them. That should go without saying. At the present however, public trust in government-based educational programs has reached an all-time low, despite their stated commitment to provide excellence in the academics. But the overall results are dismal, with rising illiteracy rates, bad cultural and social influences, sexual and gender confusion, and the rest. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and many parents are finally turning to God for the answers.

Throughout this recently expanded and upgraded edition of Upgrade, Kevin Swanson will uncover the lost principles for the education of a child as revealed in God’s Word. Here is the best place to start, before appealing to the principles of the ancient Greeks, the modern education theorists, or anybody else. Summarized in this book are the ten age-old, time-tested, biblically-based principles upon which all education should rest. Character matters. Relationships matter. The individuality of children matters. Life integration matters. Worldviews matter. The fear of God matters. Remarkably, most if not all of these principles are ignored in much of education today. The grand conclusion forming out of all these principles is simple, yet profound: Education is discipleship. Head. Heart. Hands.