Sunday, May 20, 2018

What does eliminating God's place in the world mean for education?

What does eliminating God's place in the world mean
for education? Chuck Colson, in his Breakpoint radio
commentaries, said:

It means schools should not train children in any particular
character traits, like courage or honesty. Instead, schools
should maximize a child's ability to choose for himself, after
critical consideration of competing alternatives.

This explains modern sex education, for example, where
students are not taught to restrain their sexual impulses until
marriage. Instead, they're taught a wide range of sexual practices,
with the message that "Only you can judge what's right
for you." [The DARE anti-drug program uses much the same
approach.]

Colson pointed up the contradictions in such school
teachings based on the concept that there are no absolute
truths based on God's law. He said:
Ironically, if you walk down the hall to the science classroom,
you'll find educators employing the opposite method. There
they have no qualms about teaching that there is one and only
one right way to think—namely, to embrace Darwinism.

Evolution is not open to question, nor are students invited to
judge for themselves whether it is true or not.
Colson asks, "Why such a sharp discrepancy in teaching
styles?" The answer he said is...

...that science is taught in absolute terms because it is regarded
as giving the truth about what "really exists." And what "really
exists" is nature alone. There is no God. Naturalism in science
then becomes the basis for liberalism in morality: If there is
no God, then kids should be taught to make up their own minds
about moral questions. Is it any surprise that some of them
are becoming battlegrounds.

Colson concluded:

If God is kicked out of science courses, eventually His commandments
will be taken off classroom walls—and out of
students' hearts.

Those are thoughts a nation troubled by recurring
in-school murders of students and teachers by other
students must face. The nation also needs to know of
Colson's encounter with a newspaper editor who
boasted of his efforts to remove the Ten Commandments
from the walls of local classrooms. The editor
was proud of his success in promoting a more "liberal"
education.

Yet, moments later, Colson said...

...he was bemoaning crime in the schools—the epidemic of
cheating and fighting. "Perhaps," I suggested, "you ought to
put a sign on the wall...telling kids not to steal." The editor
stared at me and then turned away without uttering a word.
For, of course, he had worked hard to remove just such a
sign—one that said "Thou shalt not steal"—along with the rest
of the Ten Commandments.

Colson added:

What this editor failed to see is that the liberal approach to
education is closely linked to increased crime and disorder.

"Full Text of John A. Stormer "None Dare Call It Education" Internet Archive. The Library Shelf, n.d. Web. 20 May 2018.May 2018.



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