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Is it possible to actually educate unless you teach what is moral and what is not? And how can you define morality outside the Bible? Would not morality just be based on a person’s own thoughts. Couldn’t it be argued that morality is what the individual thinks it is? Isn’t this what has happened? Could this be why so many do not know why they are alive?
There has to be a reason for everything we do. Human beings simply cannot stay focused and achieve anything without knowing why they are doing what they are doing. For more than eighty years, the majority of those who have written our textbooks and planned our education curriculum have not known the reason we are alive. And if we don’t know why we’re alive, how could we ever possibly prepare children to live? If we don’t know why we’re alive, then who’s to say what is important in life? Who can define right from wrong? How can there possibly be any direction in the classroom when there’s no direction in the life of the author of the education system?
This was once clearly understood in America. William Holmes McGuffey was known as the “Schoolmaster of the Nation”. His McGuffey Readers sold Continue reading
A principle in one of our schools in East Kentucky insists that the students who come to his school be given breakfast before they start their day, even if they have to take it with them to class. His reasoning: So many children come from homes that are out of order, they may not have eaten since yesterday when they were at school. Of course this is nothing new. We’ve been feeding children breakfast for many years now. But we didn’t do this when I was a child. Our homes still had enough of the holdover of Christian order to them that most parents accepted their God-given responsibility of feeding their children before school.
Woodrow Wilson said:
During the Revolutionary War, some Delaware Indian Chiefs brought three young people to General George Washington, asking that they be taught in American schools. General Washington responded:
I’m amazed at how many people think we can’t live by law anymore. They say by their actions, if not their words, “You don’t have to keep any law. I determine the law for myself.” In other words, there is nothing “set in”, which is what the word law means. The boundaries for behavior shift depending on what the individual wants in a given situation. But is this good?
All thinking people agree that education is the key to what the next generation becomes. What a child learns before he is six years old is probably going to determine his methods of doing things for the rest of his life. It is simply impossible to over-estimate the value of teaching children what is right. Ben Franklin said of those who taught children,