Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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Education Today’s chaotic world is the product of its leaders. If civilization is what its leaders have made it, the leaders are what modern education has made them. Where have they gone wrong? E must look first to the alma mater that produced the leaders: modern education. Education has been defined as a system by which an adult society injects its concepts, philosophies, customs and cul- ture into the minds of the growing generation. The academic system was founded by the Greek philosopher Plato. Education is therefore essentially pagan in origin and character. The 19th and 20th centuries have witnessed the absorption of German ration- alism into the Western educational blood- stream. Human reason is accepted as the chief source and test of all knowledge. There has been a dangerous drift into materialism. God is ignored. Revelation is rejected. The true values of life have become the missing dimension in knowledge. The ancient belief in gnosticism (meaning ‘‘we know’) has since been succeeded by agnosticism (meaning ‘‘we don’t know’ — ‘‘we are ignorant’)! And this spiritual ignorance is glorified in the guise of ‘“‘knowledge.”’ : Modern education trains students to earn a living, but fails to teach them how to live! Humanity’s problems are spiritual in nature. Yet modern education emphasizes only ‘‘material’’ knowledge. And then we wonder why we cannot solve problems! Listen to the voice of experience. The lessons of experience have been written in pain, anguish, failures, frustrations and human blood and death. Experience has been a most costly teacher — but mankind has not learned that lesson! In modern education we find the perpetu- ation of false values, the teaching of distorted history, warped psychology, per- verted arts and sciences, much worthless “knowledge.’’ A tree is known by its fruits. A mixed-up, unhappy and fearful world in chaos, divided against itself, filled with heartaches, frustrations, broken homes, juvenile delinquency, crime, insanity, racial hatreds, riots and violence, war — and now, the impending extinction of mankind. All that is the fruit of modern education. Let’s now look at government. Perhaps government is the “ultimate solution’?

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Governments The nation and the world are fraught with troubles — evils seemingly past human remedy. World leaders are alarmed! URVIVAL is now our No. 1 problem! ey: leaders of this world are certainly not without responsibility for the precarious position in which we find ourselves. Where has government gone wrong? We need government. The alternative would be anarchy. Some world leaders have said humanity’s only hopelies in a single world governmentwith only one military force. Yetin the same breath they admit the impossibility of man to produce it. But what can statesmen and politicians contribute to the solution of present escalating problems? Today, as of old, too many who run the governments of this world still promise grand solutions. They usually pose as public benefactors, while primarily fulfilling their own ambitions for power and personal glory. The governments of this world promise peace — but too often bring wars! Our politicians have grown up in a world addicted to the way of ‘‘get.’’ They are motivated by self-centeredness, vanity, envy, covetousness and hostility. Although some few heads of state sincerely seek peace and the betterment of their peoples, the majority are fully indoctrinated into a system which caters to self-gratification first. The political merry-go-round revolves on the motivation of people trying to get from government, with politicians pandering to the whims of the people in order to retain or get power! When will it stop? Can we reverse the process? The fundamental problem with govern- ment is that our politicians are not taught and do not practice the way of ‘‘give,’’ of outflowing love and concern for the well-being of others first. Business and industry offer an entirely new spectrum of achievement in modern civilization. Do the giant business conglom- erates and corporations offer any real hope to the world? After all, where would we be without money?