There was a young man who set out to swim the Mississippi river.

 The water appeared so smooth on top he thought it would be easy to swim.

All he wanted to do was get to the other side.

In he jumped and swam out far from the river bank.

Then he noticed to his suprise, he was looking straight ahead, but the current was carrying him downstream.

Sometimes, rivers, lakes, and oceans can have undertows, currents that pull people in ways they didn't plan to go.  Sometimes the tide can carry a man out so far in the opposite direction from where he wants to go that he drowns exhausted in final efforts to survive.

SHIP CAPTAINS AND YOUNG MEN

To swim the ocean of affairs we call life, a man has got to know where the currents are.

Ship captains know the major currents, to use them or avoid them.

Young men too need to know just where the current pulls.

UNTAUGHT PRIMARY  CURRENTS

There are undercurrents in the affairs of men that are not taught in public school.

The major cultural battles are omitted while they teach about everything else but the basics.

Such war as has been defined between good and evil is no longer taught, except in a few books printed by a church hear and there.

HIDDEN WAR

These major cultural battles are the beginnings of confusion to a swimmer when he steps into what appeared to be smooth water.  The surface appearance is quite.  The battle is hidden, even buried under much disquise.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAVE TO PLEASE THE PUBLIC, ie EVERYBODY

The public schools do not want to have to deal with such issues because they have to please everybody.

Therefore they cannot teach the true issues of life, between light and darkness, life and death, good and evil.

ETERNAL WORDS

What does the Lord your God set before you?  This is what He says,

Behold, I set before you this day, life and blessing or death and cursing.  Choose life therefore that you may live.

God tells you the big issues, the eternal consequence questions and answers.

Start therefor with God and let His truth be the foundation for all else you study.

TREES AND LEAVES

Many students are sincerely and earnestly studying the leaves at the top of a forest of trees.

Their teachers point them to so many leaves as they walk across the top of that forest, and some of those leaves they examine in great detail.  But to what avail?  If they are not shown the difference from one tree's fruit to another, if all they are taught is a thousand isolated, digitized pieces of truth about the leaves, and shown how they all have so much in common, they all came from the same forest, they all use sunlight acting on cholorophyll to produce energy, they all use the same chemical processes, so the students are told, they are all the same in so many ways, how could there be any significant difference between them.  Trees of the forest are all lumped together.  Students are taught all the things the leaves have in common.  

DIFFERENT FRUIT

You shall know them by their fruit.  All green leaf trees use chlorophyll to produce energy.  They have many things in common.  But their fruit can be as different as life and death.  It is better to know the primary difference than to say look at all the things that don't matter which they have in common.

After all what matters most to you?  Does the traveler really want to know how the leaves work, or would he prefer to know whether or not it is safe to eat the fruit of a particular tree?

And who would be so foolish as to say, "Look! This tree has fruit that is acceptable and it makes its energy from the light of the sun with green leaves, so this other tree over here that also has green leaves must also be safe to eat?  Who would be so simple as to make such a comparison?

RIGHTLY DIVIDE YOUR KNOWLEDGE

In the issue of life and death choice for which food to eat, the knowledge that both fruits are supplied with energy by the same chemical process between sunlight and chlorophyll is an insignificant detail, like decimal points in the tenth position compared to which fruit gives life and which is poison.  The knowledge of which is life is your far left most significant digit of information.  Let it be your first inspection.

SLIDERULE SIGNIFICANT DIGITS

In the days of sliderules, students learned to appreciate what is meant by "significant digits".

It does not matter about the numbers to the right of your decimal if your left most digit in the thousands place is wrong.!  But many are lost in looking at the precision of their decimals, not noticing their whole number is wrong.

OFTEN TIMES SIGNIFICANT DIGITS OUT OF A RIGHT ANSWER ARE COPIED AND TRANSFERED TO ANOTHER CONTEXT THAT IS WRONG.  For example, the value of  pi is 3.141536875

Now say a student took great pride in how far he worked out the decimals and worked on them so long that he forgot the first number.  Then when he went to calculate a trajectory for going to the moon, he would get lost in space becasue he forgot the most significant digit of all, the first one.  That's the way it is with studying anything.  You must have a rightly divided curriculum.

When students are sent away from home without a clear understanding of the pulling undertow between nations and peoples, then they are left to confusion and most commonly ensnarement by that which they do not understand.

We must have a rightly divided curriculum. What person who desires to teach can deny this? Let us reason together with all involved as to what constitutes a rightly divided curriculum. The current curriculum is certainly not rightly divided. It is divided to be a compromise of pleasing all people.