If God is omniscient and omnipotent, as I believe He is, then why aren’t Christian Schools superior to all others? Surely, in some cases, Christian schools have risen to a level of excellence in comparison to their neighboring competitors, but in many cases this is not true. I believe that Christian education should strive for and achieve excellence, properly representing our God to the world through a superior methodology, pedagogy, and practice that stands apart from all others. We ought to be doing it better than everyone else because our God empowers us to achieve beyond our human limitations.
But from a strictly secular perspective, I believe that great educators, such as Ron Berger, have it right with "an ethic of excellence." That is to say that the call to excellence in education need not be a strictly Christian call, but rather a universal call to all students and all schools.