Dr. Rushdoony addresses the question of accreditation of Christian Schools and Colleges in this 3 minute clip from an Easy Chair conversation he had with various guests.
Universities and Accreditation for Christians
Transcript
R.J. Rushdoony
One of the great evils of our time are the accreditation committees. And they insist that you are not truly a college unless you meet their approval, and their standards tell you that step by step you are going to have to be like the state colleges and universities to please them. Now this is something directed against the independent school. For example Harvard is [was] not accredited, and that’s true of other big universities.
[Robin] Is that right? I didn't know that.
[Rushdoony] Oh yes, they are not going to have any counsel of professors come in and tell them: "You are okay, you are really a university." The idea is incredible to them. Those committees are for the idiot groups like Christians who decide to pour millions in to start a new college, and so they call in the accreditation committee to approve them. Well the accreditation committee is very happy to approve them, just given a few little adjustments, because they are now inside the fold. And each time the committee visits them it tells them, well you have this to do and that to do, until step by step they've made them the same as the state colleges. We have ways of getting around that, I know here in California if it is a church related college or seminary it is not subject to any such regulation.
[Gene] Well you know it’s interesting, I mentioned CHEM's Creation Science convention, one of the largest and most successful Christian schools in eastern Michigan determined that they would not teach creation science as a valid alternative, actually their teachers, they're theistic evolutionists, and I noticed because several of the teachers came up to me from that particular school and they came to the creation science convention to arm themselves with the scientific evidence and all the great work that creation scientists are doing, and the reason why these schools are not open to teaching creation science and affirming the word of God is because of accreditation. They are more interested in getting accredited by these 'important' accreditation associations than they are in teaching the truth. And it can be pretty disheartening.
[Robin] Well its very interesting, it’s not necessary, because there are plenty of homeschoolers that put together their own transcripts, and the kids go off to college and do very well, and nobody has accredited anyone.
[Rushdoony] Yes. Well in this state even though a church related college or seminary need not seek accreditation, they do! That’s how brainwashed and stupid they are.
[Gene] They do, they look for it when they don’t need to.
[Rushdoony] Yes, and they boast of it.
[Gene] This whole idea of accreditation and certification and all of this stuff is a myth, it is really used to control, not to further standards and educational liberty.