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‘They tried to indoctrinate me’: examining  private Christian education

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When it came time to tour colleges, Samuel Moody visited a Christian University and was repulsed. Growing up with Christian parents and having attended a private Christian school all his educational career, he had battle scars. “In private, faith-based education there is a fine line between mentoring disciples and indoctrinating sheep, and it depends very much on the individual guiding the student. . .The majority of teachers I had [who] taught me my biblical curriculum specifically were the bad kind,” Moody said. “They tried to indoctrinate me. And I had a lot of knowledge of the Bible, but I didn’t understand Jesus on a personal level, and that’s a big problem.” Without his personal conviction to find the truth in Scripture and the strong foundation of beliefs on which his mother raised him, Moody might have become like one of the other many students who leave the faith by graduation. “There’s a reason a lot of people who grew up in the church leave it when they grow up. It’s because of bad leadership,” he claimed.