Type Religious/Non-Profit Website www.nadadventist.org | Region served Worldwide | |
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Location Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Parent organization General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists | ||
The Seventh-day Adventist educational system is the second-largest Christian school-system in the world, after the Roman Catholic system.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a total of 7,598 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.5 million students worldwide.
The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. The church supports holistic education:
Mental, physical, social, and spiritual health, intellectual growth, and service to humanity form a core of values that are essential aspects of the Adventist education philosophy.
The Journal of Adventist Education (JAE) is published.
Tertiary
The Adventist Church, usually through Union-level administrative units, operates a wide range of post secondary educational institutions in every region of the world that include:
North America
The North American Division Office of Education oversees 1049 schools with 65,000 students in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda.
Asia
In some Asian countries, Adventist schools are referred to as "Sam Yuk" (Cantonese), "Samyuk" (Korean), "San iku" (Japanese), or similar, meaning literally "three-bodied". This refers to a holistic education involving the three components of mind, body and spirit/soul. Contemporary approaches commonly include a fourth component, social.