Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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History I IS Experience the best teacher — or orily the costliest? Does a two-year old child learn better from experience, or from teaching with proper discipline, the danger of running headlong Into a traffic-heavy boulevard in front of on- rushing automobiles? Man, allowed free moral agency, has chosen to learn how to live and organ- ize his civilization by his own ideas and experience— rejecting his Maker ' s re- vealed instruction. So listen, first, to the VOICE OF EX- PERIENCE. IF human ideas, theories, desires tried by experience is the better way, the chronicle of 6,000 years of man ' s efforts to find peace, comforts, pleasures, happiness, ought to teach the present generation THE WAY to these desired ends. But we meet only disillusionment here. True, the lesson of experience has been written— in human pain and anguish, in failures and frustrations, in human blood and death. It has brought us to our present hopeless plight. But the lesson has not been learned! Experience has been a most costly teacher. But humanity, paying exces- sively for the instruction, refuses to learn. Human nature always has resented RIGHT WAYS, even when experience has demonstrated the evil y Tl results of wrong ways. v 2

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Education Next we must examine EDUCATION. For it is the Mother which spawned the Scientists, Captains of In- dustry and Business, Politi- cians and Rulers, Leaders in Modern Society, and the Theologians. Today ' s sick, chaotic world of vio- lence is the product of its leaders. They, in turn are the product of modern Education. Education is de- fined (Encyclopaedia Britannica) as a system by which adult leaders of a So- ciety inject their philosophies, Ideas, customs and culture into the minds of the growing generation. Education is, and has been through the centuries, es- sentially pagan in origin and character. The 19th and 20th centuries have witnessed the absorption of German Rationalism into the educational blood-stream. There has been a dan- gerous drift into materialism and col- lectivism. God is ignored. Revelation is rejected. The ancient fad of Gnosticism —meaning we know — has been suc- ceeded by Agnosticism— meaning we don ' t know; we are ignorant. This IGNORANCE is glorified as KNOWL- EDGE. Professing themselves to be wise, have the educated become fools? (Romans 1:22) Modern Education trains students to earn a living in the professions, occupa- tions and vocations— but fails to teach them how to live! In modern Education we find perpet- uation of FALSE VALUES, the teaching of distorted history, warped phychol- ogy, perverted arts and sciences, worthless knowledge. Atree is known by its fruits. A mixed-up unhappy and fearful world in chaos, divided against itself, filled with heart-aches, frustra- tions, broken homes, juvenile delin- quents, crime, insanity and violence; devoid of honesty, truth and justice; now facing extinction by cosmocide, is the fruitage of modern education. This decadent yet highly organized system will be replaced by the educational sys- tem of The WORLD TOMORROW. This already has been introduced, and, like the grain of mustard seed, already is beginning to spread around the world. Aristotle teaching his pupil Alexander.