True happiness comes from studying achievements of the present and the past, with the Bible as the most important achievement, but the others are not at all excluded. To Luther, there was a link between reform in the schools and in the church. Human things weight more with him than the divine. As Luther had a different assumption about man than Erasmus, he also came to a different definition of education. Starting with God, he did not want to confuse divine and human learning.
Human instruction is for the temporal realm , separate from and subordinate to divine teaching.
Yet, stressing the spiritual estate of all believers, Luther recognized that what happens on earth is of importance for eternal life. Midway between the earthly and the heavenly realm, the task of Christian education is to provide Christian instruction based on the Bible, to prepare for service of God in the earthly and the heavenly realm. Luther had three arguments for the necessity of Christian education . This is also evident in God s fourth commandment. As far as Erasmus was concerned, human intellect separated people from animals, but for Luther it was their being created in the image of God , and their task on earth.