Education

Let me write a nation’s history, I care not who writes it’s laws.

From inception to the grave, one thing differentiates humans from other creatures, the mind. It is important therefore that the development of the mind be of the greatest benefit to the individual and society. This development is none other than what is broadly termed ‘Education’. Education, simply put, is the training of a mind. From the mind, we conceive thoughts and manage our actions. Knowledge, experience and wisdom are handed down to succeeding generations through the precious medium of education.

This is a fact that both freedom and slavery understood early on in their struggle, and it is no small wonder that both have well developed their strategy in the sphere of education. As for freedom, she draws her might on this peculiar battlefield from the Absolute Being. The Infinite Mind is the rector and principle teacher to her students under her school-system. The book that contains the thoughts of that Infinite Mind is the all-consuming curriculum. In her school, men are taught to be free from all men, yet servants of all. “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” (Galatians 5:13)

Then, there is the school system under slavery. In it are students under the guidance of that wicked mind, in which first appeared rebellion and selfishness. Men are taught that they are free from all, and servants of none but themselves. In this illusion, they unfortunately become slaves to their passions and desires. If only they knew and understood that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17)

All through human history, we can see these two systems developing, competing for each and every mind. The history of education, is the story of the human mind, where it has been, where it is today and where it will go. Nations have either nobly saved or meanly lost, their strength and position, by the choice of education they have sought. In the book Of Thought and Its Freedom, we shall have much to say about Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the men that slavery used to set up the fantastic education that today towers the world, and destroys faith in God. Likewise we shall have a chance to also examine the Son of God, the finest teacher ever to walk this planet, and the revolution He unleashed that forced mighty paganism and a whole Roman empire to change form simply to survive.