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David Barton is an attorney who has taken cases before the Supreme Court. He heads up an organization called Wallbuilders that publishes books and videos every parent should read. Every American citizen should know the history of this country. A more complete background of America is presented in those publications than is presented in most public school courses.
David Barton has spoken in person locally at Fairway Baptist Church as recently as the Fall of 1996. Many members of WFISD school system were present to hear what David Barton had to say. Thankfully, most if not all of our school board were present.
Also see the book, Reclaiming a Nation at Risk by Brannon House.
The Rewriting of America's History by Catherine Millard is another excellent book. The author gives guided tours in Washington D.C. and is an expert on how traditional history is being removed and replaced with modern ideas.
Concerned Women of America have published an excellent booklet on OBE, also called Outcome Based Education.
Eagle Forum news letters have covered OBE in the state of Texas.
See the main index on our home page for a listing of recommended reading.
OUR CHILDREN NEED US
Their Foundational Understandings Deserve Our Full Protection
There is a reason why the libraries in public schools are filled with books on evolution and omit books on creation science. The bias of national organizations that drive the economics of schools and libraries wants your child to believe in a theory called evolution. Though many thousands of scientists have just as valid books on Creation Science, those books are ignored by current enconomic forces behind our schools.
Many other biased selections can be seen if you take time to look. Remember the GooseBumps series? Why is it so available to children today? Read on.
Children build their understandings in life much like the way a pyramid is built. First, a foundation is laid, then new blocks are put on top of the previously placed blocks. This is true whether you're speaking of blocks of stone as in a pyramid built from the ground up, or blocks of information accumulated from the beginning of life up through the rest of life.
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The tilt and orientation of the foundation blocks will have great influence on what can subsequently be built upon them. In the physics of building a pyramid, a square and level foundation is required. If the foundation is tilted too much, the building will topple. If the foundation is not square, there are great problems with the sides and the top being in harmony and balance.
Much like the physical foundation, a child's first understandings also affect the growth of his later understandings. Ideas laid down early in life are the sieve, the filter, for new ideas. Like a filter being built by accumulation of ideas, the mind analyzes and the heart accepts or rejects each idea. That which is accepted becomes a condition for which any new ideas must also fit. If a new idea does not fit the previously laid foundation, then that misfit idea is usually rejected.
Just like builders of a pyramid accept or reject each new stone by whether or not it fits with what has previously been laid, so the child does with ideas. So it is with utmost care that we should guard the rightness of ideas given to a child. The child is like a sponge, absorbing nearly anything presented to him. Until that child has accumulated a few layers of ideas built upon the preceding ideas, he has little ability to discriminate. It requires at least two points for a line to be determined. Some direction must be apparent to that child before he can tell whether or not a new point fits into the pattern or must be rejected. The more layers of similar information a child is given, the more able he is to decide whether any new information fits or should be rejected.
A child can better see the direction of a line of thought after he has accumulated many points in the same line. Then, when there are many points close together, he can easily see whether a new point fits in that same line or not.
During the early years that child wants acceptance and praise from the authorities over him so he readily accepts that information given him by those authorities. If a stranger gives him points that do not fit the easily seen set of points already accumulated, the child will reject the new point because it does not fit the pattern.
Eventually that child will be able to accept and reject points that are only slightly off the true line given by those he sees as the authority in his life. That is when the child is mature enough to judge on his own, just as an adult, to tell what points fit the same line and which points are out of line. When he can still make the same good decisions even under pressure, then he is strong.
The Bible says that Jesus was raised up on butter and honey so he could know to reject the evil and choose the good (Isaiah 7:15 KJV). What can we learn from that?
First we see that He was not fed a bunch of junk under some modern education theory that by feeding Him junk He could learn to recognize it as junk. Instead He was fed the good. He was given so much good that He grew good. We become what we eat. We become like what we accept (take in to ourselves).
Second we can see that by having experienced a wealth of good, there is a pattern that comes to be understood; and we realize whatever does not fit the pattern must be rejected. The bigger the pattern, the easier it is to recognize what fits that pattern. Also, the easier it is to recognize anything that does not fit the pattern.
So if you want your child to grow up being able to choose the good and reject the evil, then feed him with good things. He will develop an appetite for what you feed him. But if you feed him junk food, be assured he will desire more junk food. Do not think that by early feeding of junk food you can teach him not to eat it. You will only be contradicting with your words what you are doing with your actions. He will respond to your actions more strongly than to your words.
Actions, pictures, stories, music and all forms of expression are a voice that speaks to the soul. Words are just one form of voice speaking to the soul of your child. You have voiced your ideas when you give anything to that child to consume. If you give him a good book, you have voiced to him "I approve this book as being a loving and helpful thing for you to have." If you give a rotten book you have voiced to him, "This is the kind of ideas that I want you to have."
He is being trained as to what you like him to be by every thing you give him. He is being shaped by everything you put in his mouth and he is being shaped by every thing you put in his mind. Whether for good or for evil, you are responsible for all that you feed that little sponge.
CLAY: The child is the clay. Parents and teachers are the physical the earthlly potter.
God is the Master Potter. Touch the clay in the fear of God, for we are in the scales of judgment for every word and every idea we voice to the child. It is better that for a man that a mill-stone be hung around his neck and he be cast into the sea than that he should come into the judgment of God for corrupting the pure good growth of a child's heart.
Fear of God: The Bible says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and that we should perfect our own holiness in the phobia of God. Another words when you're not on solid truth of God for what you do with a child, let the fear of God keep you far away from the edge of doing something unscriptural. Don't go near a thing until you have proved by scripture that it is good and not death. When in doubt, don't be presumptuous, but stop and prove all things.
Consider how this child is affected. He may leave home at an early, hectic paced 6:30 a.m if he rides the bus. He spends 30 minutes to an hour and a half a day on the bus There's an urgency when he goes out the door. Mom and dad are both in a hurry, things must get done. We all have to get where we're going. The rush atmosphere, the hectic noise on the bus can be a strong influence on the day. Those things are himportant to the child growing up.
The child sees his parents take him to school. He hears them say the school is a good place. He is assured that they will teach him good and right things. He knows his parents love him and would not commit him to someone they did not trust. So he is set up to accept and believe whatever the new authorities at school tell him or show him or give him as good and acceptable for him.
A friend of mine said the big mistake he made was telling his children to do whatever the teachers taught him. Well his children got into a school system that taught the acceptability of various life styles. You've heard the phrases.
Going in the school door, he sees posters full of man's ideas that contradict Christian faith. Remember what the Morning Star must have thought when he rebelled against God Almight. Surely the Morning Star, also called Lucifer, also known as, the devil thought he could do anything he conceived. Such thoughts are not good foundations for our children's lives. An indepth study is available to show anyone more details of the Christian answer to this philosophy.
PROVIDENCE: Example: Don't you think the British generals believed and conceived they could beat the Colonial Army? The providence of God as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence puts a limit on the affairs of men. Thank God! Neither man nor his imagination is soverign, but God is sovereign. Let us teach our children the truth, then they won't be frustrated by reaching for things too high. The psalms of David have some good thoughts to read about reaching for things too high.
Written by Larry A. Rice in response to local, state, and national events.
Well, his daughter wound up pregnant. She was doing what made her feel good. She was doing what the teacher said was OK when the condom was handed out. This was not here in Wichita Falls, but it is the national tide which Christian parents should realize as a need to be active in education politics.