Monkey See, Monkey Do!

Haec studia adolescentiam alunt senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impdiunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, pergrinantur, rusticantur.
-Cicero

Now think about that for a second! Okay, time is up! If your like me, about all you got from that wisdom is, it's all Greek to me. So here's my point. We have available to us over 2500 years of Greek and Roman literature. It's a comprehensive study of the Homo sapien and how he thought and reacted throughout history. It's the longest record of poetry, drama, law, agriculture, philosophy, logic, politics, botany, zoology, medicine, geography, theology, and just about any subject you can imagine. I've always been told that experience is the best teacher, especially when it's someone else whose done the experiencing. Now to all of that add the wisdom of the Bible, meld the two and it's a how to handbook!

So it begs the question, why aren't we taught any of this in school? It sure seems to me, a great deal of this experience would come in handy when decision making. In 2500 years someone must have faced a similar dilemma, and we could gain their wisdom from it. Here's the short answer, we are not being educated, we are being trained. We are being taught to perform, not unlike the animals in a circus.

There is a vast difference between training and education. The educated are taught to think and reason, the trained are taught to perform. Pass a Comprehensive Test, or the SAT or ACT, so you can go to a higher level of training. It's difficult to educate people, not everyone can be educated, but everyone can be trained. This is the result of handing over our education system to the government. They took the path of least resistance, the cookie cutter conveyor belt training system produces the workers of the country. The thinkers are left to their own.

If you want to stretch your mind to be capable of reason, it's become your responsibility. You have to have the drive to read and search out the classic education, the Thomas Jefferson school of thought. Become a hungry student and thirst for knowledge. Your mind expands as you library does.

God Bless!
Capt. Bill