The Orthodox Church views education as being much more comprehensive than mere schooling.  Scripture tells us to raise our children in the nurture—paideia—and admonition of the Lord.  Needless to say, this task is not one that any school could reasonably claim as its province alone, but schools can be structured in their content and in their methods to complement the broader project of Christian paideia.  This hope led Christians throughout the centuries to establish schools they deemed compatible with the proper formation of young people, and today, this same hope is moving more and more Orthodox Christians across America to do the same.