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Online links to scriptures (New International Version [NIV] unless otherwise stated) are shown in blue
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 In Western ways, education is the responsibility of teachers and pupils are streamed according to their abilities.
Our education system has been inherited directly from Greek culture. In Greece, large gymnasiums (from 'gymnos', meaning naked) were built in which to teach the elite. Professional teachers were employed to strip intelligent students of the information they had gathered at home and replace it with instruction on every conceivable subject. Knowledge was the key both to excellence and power.
Children from poor families were dissuaded from studying science or the arts and encouraged to learn a trade from their parents instead.
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 In the original Hebrew, before the development of the more modern Rabbinical system, fathers and mothers were responsible for their children's education, imparting knowledge from the creator, including His moral values and judgments.
The Lord is to be the teacher. He taught Moses.....
Exodus 4:10-12
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 What Moses taught the people, the people were to teach to their children.....
Deuteronomy 4:9-10
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 Before Samson was born his mother asked for him to be taught by God's representative....
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 Arts and science was taught, but it was all based on scriptural principles. Some knowledge was not included, even if it was the truth. The classic example, which still causes controversy today, is sex education. It was not held to be healthy for children to learn at an early age.
The Law set out the limitations on sexual relations.....
Leviticus 18:6
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 But the mechanisms of bodily function were not taught at an early age. Birth control was facilitated by keeping the women separate from the men!
Unlike today, moral values were also taught. As fathers and mothers had a stake in their children's future, they had the child's entire life in mind in what they taught, and were not simply conduits for the acquisition of knowledge.
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| SOME SPIRITUAL IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY |
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1. We must understand that our education system teaches knowledge but is limited in other areas.
2. We cannot abdicate the teaching of our children entirely to the system. Moral values need to be taught in the home.
3. We need to control what our children hear, see and read, for not all information is good and helpful in the healthy development of our family.
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| <i>NEXT WEEK:</i> THINKING GREEK OR HEBREW continues..... |
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 ..... looking at PEACE.
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| A NOTE FROM DAVID |
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 Education is an area most of us abdicated to secular systems today.
While some can home school, which has other problems that go with it, sending our kids to school is the most logical way for us to go.
However, we need to be very aware of the need to teach moral values to our children, or else they will all too easily, follow the absence of morality in the world.
It is very difficult raising godly families in today's world!
IMAGES AND ART: Jerusalem
Mt. Zion
Also known as Mount Sion, the Upper City, the Southwestern Hill
View from Bell Tower
This rare shot from the top of the Dormitian Abbey bell tower gives a view of Mt. Zion and the Western Hill from the south. Visible are the south wall of the Old City and the Armenian Quarter with the Mt. of Olives on the right horizon. Dormitian Abbey is home today to German Catholic monks.
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So until next week.......
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOU BLESS GOD!
His servant and yours
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