A Book called All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten pointed out that the basic lessons in civility and common sense we learn in Kindergarten are the ones we really need to use in later life.
In our terms, a college “education” is aimed at destroying those lessons.
I did not receive a Kindergarten education (pity and donations accepted). But I did go to Bible School, where a guy was quoted as saying, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven” He then added a comment that, in our terms, come Judgment Day the Mommy Professors of this world would wish they had never been born.
The main lesson we kept being taught in Bible School was how Jesus could not explain to the Jews that he was not here for their proposed Israeli Kingdom. He could not be their Messiah, they said, because he did not claim he could get rid of the Roman Occupation and lead the Jews to a New Age of Power like the one they never had when Israel was between the superpowers of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
To Israeli nationalists, “My kingdom is not of this earth” and “Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” reflected exactly what the Messiah was NOT.
Which makes it particularly funny for me when I watch Pat Robertson and the rest shouting that Christianity is All About Israel. I think it was Robertson who said that Sharon had his stroke because he wanted to compromise on Jewish settlements.
All I REALLY needed to know about Christianity was available to me in Sunday School.
#1 by Dave on 06/09/2008 - 11:53 am
We need to generalize from Robertson’s scam to Political Correctness as a whole.
Robertson’s operation is premised on the propensity of people to be encouraged to want things that don’t make sense. This is what Wordism thrives on. And his absurd politics is entirely consistent with his entire operation from the bottom of the dam to the top.
But this is American society in general.
Just listen to “our” presidential candidates. Nothing they say makes sense because “what they stand for” doesn’t make sense. Everything is all premised on wanting things that don’t make sense.
It is like the absurd wage slave husband out “house shopping” with his wife who signs a 6% debt agreement for a property $200K in excess of what he wanted to spend based upon his wife’s demand for a kitchen with granite counter tops and top of the line gas appliances.
You cannot be that lost and survive. You have to want things that make sense.
And making basic fundamental sense is something people do very badly. This is what gives the Robertsons and Political Correctness in general its opening.
#2 by shari on 06/09/2008 - 12:27 pm
This isn’t quite the point you make, but I think that it’s related.
Kindergarten is another project of big, hairy, mommy professor, too. I never went to kindergarten either. There wasn’t any in many places. But it was getting started. Totally voluntary, as usual starts go. By the late seveties early eighties, kindergarten teachers were 5yr. graduates of mommy professor, knowing all. Before we had “no child left behind” the flip side of put some children behind was in place. Now they start kindergarten at around six and they must be deemed “ready” preferably with 2 or 3 yrs. of pre-school. But I am impressed at seeing some young mothers with bright children going right around that table leg. Wish I had known. Heck! Even ordinary children don’t need that bureaucracy, I think.