Neighborhood Ministries

I was reading an article which described education as a product of its environment. The author contended that it is inherently political and changes with the changing political scene. That isn’t education, that is indoctrination. Education is teaching facts and exploring various viewpoints about those facts to help the students draw their own conclusions, which is something that is disappearing from our schools. Facts don’t change, though the way they are viewed does. That is the problem with modern “education”. Many textbooks are heavily political and are designed to indoctrinate the student so they will become politically correct but often factually wrong. They claim to be based on facts but appeal to emotions rather than facts. When I taught sociology in college, I ended up writing my own curriculum because the textbooks contained so many errors. The material in the lectures has been printed in “Truly in the World But Not Of It” parts A & B, both published by LULU Press.