Thanks,
I think there is something in all people,call it human nature, to want to learn, explore and seek truth or at least greater understanding. I know that many people seem to suppress this since I can’t imagine it is not in them. Your are very right to point to our education system and “how” they teach, which shifted in the mid part of the last century. The shift to so called “progressive education” can be traced to John Dewey. Dewey and his crowd were the early adherents to “Humanism” which had ties to current and former Eugenicists.
In my own experience, since accepting Christ, my passion for learning and quest for the truth has grown exponentially. This has not simply been a function of stuffing my head with facts, it’s been to gain a deep understand of both why some are either for a against God, and what are the foundations for their beliefs.
Capitalism is the expression of freedom and liberty that resides in all men. To be convinced otherwise, is to deny the nature of man and oneself.
-— . Your are very right to point to our education system and “how” they teach, which shifted in the mid part of the last century. The shift to so called “progressive education” can be traced to John Dewey. -—
It actually goes back to the beginning. Horace Mann wrote a glowing report of Bismarck’s compulsory schooling system, even though he never actually witnessed its operation. (In his previous report to the Boston School Committee he praised phrenology). Behavioral psychology has dominated teacher colleges since the 1880s (Thorndike, Wundt, and Pavlov).
“The Underground history of American Education” explains the sordid history. There is nothing good, or American, about compulsory schooling.
BTW, you can read it on line for free. Just google the title.
Yes, I see your post was as much about talking with people about Christ as political issues. It is interesting that the same issue with faith, the denial of reality, is a function of world-view.
The two biggest issues in the world today are moral relativism and denial of an objective truth. These are being taught everyday in our schools at every level. The post modern mind is incapable of dealing with the world as it stands as they are unable to discern truth.
Young people are actually being taught that there is no objective truth. When confronted with the idea that the Bible is objective truth, even believers will accept this paradox. It can only be described as insanity.
It was as if satan himself was somehow involved.
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