Friday, October 07, 2005
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There are no right angles in nature".That comment was made by a performer today at the Performing Arts Center in Paducah. It struck me because we humans love right angles and God apparently does not. I was racking my tiny brain all the way home to try to think of at least one right angle in creation and could not. What was so striking about that statement was that we were sitting in the theatre with several hundred public school kids who were trapped in a system of "right angles". While homeschooling allows each child to grow as God intended, the public school system traps teachers and kids alike into conformity. Consider the young person lost in thought and writing poetry when suddenly the bell souds off like the sentry at a firehouse, proclaiming the end of one subject and on to another. The modern education system is not designed to foster individual interests, but rather designed to produce "right angle" adults whos highest aspirations are conformity. Even the dedication and self-sacrifice of gifted and caring teachers can never replace God's design for the training of children "in the way he should go" by parents who have invested everything in them.
Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
posted by Steve Stevens at
7:34 PM
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