Her brain or her heart?

In choosing a child's education, the range of possibilities doesn't end there | David Aikman

As parents choose a christian school for their children, they should be aware of a very popular logical fallacy that is called "false alternative." The hapless victim of said fallacy is presented with two, and only two, choices. When the fallacy is on--line and operational, those two choices do not represent all the choices available. For example, if someone is told that the car must either be yellow or blue, he is left wondering why it couldn't be another color. But other times there really are just two choices. If one is told, for example, that the car was either yellow or not yellow, then he really is confronting the only two logical possibilities.

The world is full of these false alternatives masquerading as true "logical" choices. In the realm of Christian education, one of the most popular forms of this fallacy is the dilemma constantly presented between "character" and "academics." In the education of your children, take your pick-which will it be? Do you want godly kids or do you want smart kids? Do you want Christian character or do you want strong academics?