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The dying mother called her young son to her side. The nine-year-old boy would remember these words the rest of his life. She said to him, “Son, I want you to live as I have taught you; to love your Heavenly Father and keep His Commandments.” Later, after her memorial service had just ended and everyone was walking away from the grave, the little boy ran back and threw himself down on her grave sobbing, crying out to God to help him live like she had requested. That little boy was Abraham Lincoln. He would later say, “All that I am, my angel mother made me.” (Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Faith, Frederick Owen (Tyndale House, 1976), p.5) His earliest memory of her was her teaching him to memorize the Ten Commandments as he sat as her feet (Ibid, p.6).
This was the kind of education that produced generation after generation of respectful, productive, people who made America the most prosperous nation in world history. This way of educating produced government that was the freest in the world. In fact, it is attributed to Abraham Lincoln to have said, “The philosophy of education in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” No nation can be greater than its method of education.
America’s early education system was Continue reading
