IS EDUCATION THE ANSWER?
If I had to choose which topic has captured the headlines for the last few years, I would plump for Education. There isn’t a week that goes by without a Government minister bringing up this topic at every opportunity revealing how the system is failing youngsters and needs to be overhauled.
Within weeks of a new Minister for Education being appointed, there are threats of strike action by unions representing teachers and ancillary staff. The media are quick to pick up on these emotive issues and people from all walks of life are invited to take part in debates and panel discussions during which, everyone has a go at the supposed failings of schools.
The behaviour of children, both in and out of school, is high on the agenda with violence in classrooms taking the number one position. Reports have flooded in regarding assaults on Teachers with one particular incident hitting the headlines recently in which a child wielding a knife murdered his teacher. There was the usual hand-wringing and self-flagellation by the left-wing and do-gooders who insisted that better education was the answer.
One prominent government minister said that he had made it his business to ensure that from now on every school in the land would have lessons to teach students right from wrong! I am not sure which planet he was from because if this is the type of thinking that is going on in high places, we will have to face up to the fact that our leaders and the education system have lost the plot! Those who insist that children need to be better educated need to think again.
Bold headlines in a well-known newspaper tell us of 16-year-old twins from Manchester who, having 28 GCSE’s between them, ran away to join the Islamic warlords. They ran away from a normal life to join the fight which is plunging large parts of the world into anarchy. So much for education!
- A society that has said in a loud voice that it can and will get along fine without reference to God is now finding that it cannot.
- A society that has done away with Biblical Christianity and the teaching of Scripture in schools and colleges is now reaping what it has sown.
- A society that has ignored the Message of the Cross finds life has been replaced with hatred and anger.
- A society that has no fear of God and the concept of eternal punishment finds it has traded the truth for a lie and embraced great deception in its place.
- A society whose mothers and fathers have ignored Biblical injunctions on how to raise their children find they are at a loss to know what to do or how to cope.
- A society that has torn up the rule book of life now lives by rules of its own making.
- A society that has embraced the new tolerance, which includes behaviour and lifestyles that, up until recently would have been soundly condemned, has brought absolute truth, honesty and integrity crashing down around our heads. They have thrown it into a pot, a cauldron if you like, to be stirred up and mixed together with every conceivable crackpot theory imaginable and then it has, to thunderous applause, dished up this toxic mixture to those professing to be wise and to all who do not want to know, see or hear the truth.
We should hang our heads in shame. We have been given the Rule Book of life by our Creator and we don’t even bother to open it.