Posts tagged education
Education our most precious commodity.
Feb 8th
Is there anything more important than education? Shouldn’t we spend more money and time on the betterment of our public school systems? Don’t we offer transportation to all students who otherwise would have to walk? Do we not offer healthy breakfast and lunch plans? Are we ensuring that our teachers are the most qualified applicants?
The overall answer to these questions, would be yes except for the first one.
Education is not the most important element when it comes to our children. Nope, safety is.
Enjoy your “snow” day teachers; especially you, the teacher I sleep with.
Questions
Dec 14th
What motivates you? What inspires you? What makes you uncomfortable?
Me?
The presence and knowledge of sin and suffering, motivates me.
People who live to give, inspire me.
Theology makes me uncomfortable. My theology causes these questions.
I constantly think about these questions. Not having answers to these questions makes me angry.
Talking about these questions instead of acting upon them, makes me fill up with guilt.
More often than not, I do my best to forget about these questions because I don’t feel capable.
Right now, I don’t have answers. But I do have a lot of questions. Don’t you hate that?
Instead of an answer you receive another question.
Here are some questions I have. But please remember they are just questions.
Why isn’t the title Christian viewed as a verb and not a noun. Or, why is being a Christian based on
what one believes instead of how one acts.
Do we really believe that the church is the people? Really?
Then why do people say, “I go to _________ Church.” instead of saying, “I am ________ Church.”
(Of course this is all just a play on words but there must be truth in all this.)
Maybe it’s because one would have to insert themselves into a situation in which proof was
physical and not verbal.
Why is our governments number one priority not education? Volunteer in a school to see proof of this.
Friday night I spent a couple of hours tending the concessions at a middle school dance.
My heart broke as I saw numerous kids who literally couldn’t comprehend that 50 cents plus 75 cents
equals $1.25. Middle school kids!
I can’t stop there. Take a walk through some of the schools in your area. Not the schools in the middle
of white suburbia. But the schools that families will put themselves in debt up to their eyeballs to
move away from.
Why has the “church” made the same move?
Is it possible for poverty to end? Or at least reduce by 50%?
The only way I see this happening would be by people giving and serving more.
How do we give more?
I know the style is to get more when we make more. But JunkyCarClub.com offers an alternative.
Who is going to start JunkyHouseClub.com? Of course that might mean that we have to send our kids
back to the schools that we moved away from.
How do we serve more?
By answering the above questions.
Made Foolish by Education
Feb 12th
Ecclesiastes 2:12-16
After he concludes with what he has acquired and accomplished, the king begins to track his knowledge. I think this powerful man is a stand up guy. He thinks about his successor. He knows that whatever he may leave the next in line, it will not bring them happiness either.
He doesn’t say that striving for wisdom is a waste of time. So stay in school. He does compare wisdom and foolishness to light and dark. You can obviously be more productive with the lights on rather than them being off.
Regardless, the educated and the uneducated have the same destiny.
Then the king really digs in deep philosophically. He admits that he is foolish for conspiring to be wise. So what if his name is followed by PhD, MA, or BA. The reason for his wisdom has been skewed. Knowledge may have brought power and money but it never brought significance. And because he pursued wisdom for a smile, he in return became foolish. Education doesn’t define one as wise.
We all have our own niche. We all can be considered experts on specific plights. We have all had teachers/mentors. We are all foolish because we all, at some point, forget about the Wisest.
(Education will take you farther than anything, other than God)
We all have our own niche. We all can be considered experts on specific plights. We have all had teachers/mentors. We are all foolish because we all, at some point, forget about the Wisest.
(Education will take you farther than anything, other than God)
