Posted on 07/27/2022 4:37:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Why my friends and I had more wisdom when we were 12 than college students and faculty have today.
The average 12-year-old student at a yeshiva has more wisdom than almost any student at Harvard or most other universities. (A yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish school with an emphasis on religious studies. About half the school day is devoted to religious studies—taught from the original Hebrew sources.)
This is probably true for many 12-year-olds in traditional Christian schools as well.
College students do have more knowledge than almost any 12-year-old in religious school. But they have much less wisdom.
I know this because I was a yeshiva student from the age of 5 until 19. To appreciate how much wisdom I was taught is to appreciate the root of our society’s present crisis: Secular life doesn’t teach wisdom (nor, it should be noted, do many schools that call themselves “Christian” or “Jewish”). Generations of Americans have not been taught wisdom; instead, they have been told that it is sufficient to rely on their feelings to understand life and to determine right from wrong.
Here are just three examples of basic insights into life that most 12-year-old yeshiva students know and that few secular students—or, for that matter, secular professors—know.
1) I knew well before age 12 that people are not basically good. Any young person who studies the Bible—and believes in it—knows that God says, “The will of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” (Genesis 8:21).
Aside from the question of God’s existence, this is probably the most important issue in life. It might be said that wisdom begins with this realization about human nature. It is hard to imagine any person who believes human nature is good attaining wisdom.
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The narcissist has no need for introspection or to make efforts toward self-improvement.
Very astute article.
Wisdom verses knowledge.
And the heart of man ... good verses evil.
Methinks I have to question that particular statement.
Ask the average college student to define a woman. Then ask a 12 year old. Odds are the 12 year old gives a more coherent answer.
College students know a lot. It is just that so much of it is wrong.
I left yeshiva in 5th grade and it took until 8th grade in public school for dem to catch up to where I left off:-)
America has also become a nation of hypochondriacs ... of cowards.
“The will of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” (Genesis 8:21).
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I’ve asked many these questions.
” ever do something you regretted ?”
” ever do something you believed to be wrong but you did anyway ?”
” ever do something cuz you couldn’t stop yourself from doing it ?”
” ever wonder why that was ?”
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This is the best way I’ve found reprogram and defeat the
” people are basically good myth”
of secular humanists and Marxists.
This is the best way I’ve found Deprogram and defeat
” people are basically good myth”
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We are broke .
It’s called sin.
We are born that way.
Only Jesus can fix and repair us.
Very true.
CHRIST THE COKE MACHINE
We sin.
Then confession’s coin rolls in.
Out bounces sweet can of forgiveness.
We drink it all down with barely a frown
for myrrh-mingled wine’s sour business.
Thirst quenched
brief with quick-feigned repentance,
unmindful of looming death sentence,
soon
sin-licking lips
forgetting in sips,
rejecting with gall
upon hyssop.
Tongue lolling
pursuing next pleasure,
by thimble our sins we do measure.
Run doggedly hide
fist clutching blind pride,
behind
leaving clear water treasure.
Hard heart deaf to empty can crinkles,
flap clokes thin disguise
hiding wrinkles.
Slaked saccharin lies,
tasting vomit satisfies,
not
vinegar’d sponge dying sprinkles.
Chins babble
While angels holding holy pens
draw all thoughts’ silent scenes,
recording pretense and pretend.
Thorn’d thickets convict,
sharp briars skin-nicked
a side flowing red will soul mend.
Ho! Come to the water,
it’s free thirsty one.
Wind’s quarters can’t count up the fee.
Blood pure washed away,
to weeping streams where pebbles pray,
hushed choking crying forest echoes constant kicking
the broke coke machine
we nailed
to a tree.
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