But in both cases, it is God and God alone who gives the increase. Technically speaking, physical education is a contradiction in terms. The phrase physical training is much more appropriate. We may use the term learning metaphorically, such as learning gymnastics or learning to ride a bicycle. But in actuality, this is a exercise in training.
Education has to do with minds.
The wise man, according to Scripture, is one who not only knows the Word of God, but he also knows the system of truth, and how to skillfully apply it in every area of life. And this system is perhaps best summarized in the Westminster Standards, consisting of the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. The Standards are, to quote B. B. Warfield, the final crystalization of the elements of evangelical religion, after the conflicts of sixteen hundred years. They are the richest and most precise and best guarded statement ever penned of all that enters into evangelical religion and of all that must be safeguarded if evangelical religion is to persist in the world. It is the primary purpose of the church.