Our Approach Philosophy of Education

As a liberal arts college, Westmont seeks to help its students become certain kinds of people, 他们不仅仅是信息的储存者，也不仅仅是专业技能的拥有者. Where such information and competencies are acquired, 这是在一个智力和社会背景下完成的，它滋养了一个更大的精神愿景，并与之相结合. Crucially, as a liberal arts college, 韦斯特蒙寻求帮助灌输那些有助于领导一个成功和满意的生活的技能. 因为就像一个人必须接受技能训练才能从事贸易一样, 因此，一个人必须接受训练，掌握那些使他能够从事人类特有的推理活动的技能, communicating, thoughtfully choosing one’s moral and spiritual ends, building political, economic and spiritual communities, 进入那些需要知识的“欣赏的快乐”, experience, and trained discrimination. Herein lies the relationship between liberal learning and life, 因为这些正是转化为一个人作为国家公民的良好角色的技能, servant of the church, member of a family, worker or professional and participant in the cultural world.

Westmont College is committed to a high view of biblical authority, an orthodox doctrinal vision, 以及通过耶稣基督与上帝建立个人关系的核心重要性. 正是这种基督教ag娱乐官网，学院寻求充分融入其生活作为一个文科机构. For the pursuit of a liberal arts education, 它的重点是培养某些类型的人，并灌输一些基本的人类技能，这些技能对于过上令人满意的生活至关重要, 不可能脱离一个人最基本的承诺和ag娱乐官网而发生. For the Christian, then, 这意味着把一个人的圣经和神学遗产带到这个教育事业中. Indeed, 如果一个人拥有基本的价值观和承诺，却不能明确地、系统地完成这项任务，那他的教育就被严重地截断了, severed, as it were, from one’s most important beliefs and values. To isolate one’s worldview in this way, while pursuing an education, 只会导致一种没有经过持续理智反思的世界观. Such an approach will yield persons who are not fully educated, indeed not educated at the core of their being. For the Christian, therefore, higher education must be Christian education, if it is to be education for the whole person. At Westmont, then, 基督教ag娱乐官网是为学术事业提供信息，而学术事业是为一个人的基督教ag娱乐官网提供信息，从而产生一种基于圣经的、理智健全的基督教世界观.

韦斯特蒙是一所本科学院，因此它的注意力集中在这里, 集中资源和设计教学策略，以促进学生的发展，谁是开始他们的专上教育. It follows that the primary emphasis at Westmont is on teaching. 但是教学通常包括帮助学生获得研究技能，并使他们自己成为知识的创造者. 只有教师为学生示范研究技能，才能有效地做到这一点, and mentor them in the acquisition of those skills. Moreover, 为本科生创造有利的知识环境, 威斯蒙特必须成为一个知识产生和传播的机构. 但是，产生这样的知识在很大程度上(尽管不是唯一的)应该根据所产生的好处来评估和赞赏, directly or indirectly, 那些来威斯蒙特接受教育的本科生. 威斯蒙特大学的教育项目就是为这些学生而设的.

韦斯特蒙特学院的教育项目是住宿性质的，反映了一种促进和利用ag娱乐官网教育方式的承诺. Indeed, ever since the monastic tradition, 学习在居住ag娱乐官网内得到培养和传播, 通过共同探索的乐趣和精神亲缘关系的维持来促进学习. Moreover, both the Christian and liberal arts traditions remind us of the integrity of human wholeness; we cannot be neatly compartmentalized into rational, spiritual and affective components. 住宅的特点允许并鼓励我们在生活中表达这种整体性, learn and worship together. Further, 学院的住宿特点反映了一种信念，即所有有意义的学习的目标, and of biblical education in particular, is to inform the way we live. 学院的住宅特色邀请学生将他们的学习应用到创建一个个人可以共同成长和成熟的ag娱乐官网的日常任务中. 在榜样和导师的帮助下，学生们能够培养这些成年和救赎生活的模式.

Westmont is to be a college with global concerns. For the earth and all its peoples are God’s good creation. As such, they must be appropriately valued and respected. We are called in scripture to be stewards of the earth, to be faithful caretakers of the physical creation. 我们也被召唤去欣赏人类文化的丰富多样性- - -这些文化是由在创造中带有上帝形象印记的人所塑造的. We are, 然后，通过深思熟虑的、有意识的研究和与其他文化的互动，成为一个信息丰富的ag娱乐官网. Ours is, however, a fallen world, and the earth, its peoples, and their institutions stand in need of the redemptive, reconciling word of the gospel. We are called, therefore, 不仅要欣赏和保存创造和人类文化, 也要参与神国度的工作，响应神的大使命，使万民作他的门徒——把所有受造界和人类的机构都置于基督的主权之下. 这项任务涉及到从各个方面来解决这个堕落导致失明的问题, disintegration, conflict, and injustice into the world. Finally, 强调教育的全球性质是承认我们的世界日益变得相互联系和相互依存. To prepare people to function intelligently, effectively and for the good in a world of global politics, global economics, 全球交流必须成为威斯蒙特教育的目标之一.