Monday, December 1, 2025

‘Education’

The American Education Train

Saturday, February 2, 2013 16:36

. . The educational situation in America can be compared to a train, often with boxcars of learning standing still attached to no engine, or having continual changes with all types of different engines to pull them, or actually having them move in reverse in many ways. American public ...

Human Violence Is from the Inside Out

Tuesday, January 1, 2013 0:00

.  . The condemnation of God was against Cain when he killed Abel, and the type of weapon was not even mentioned. Human violence is from the inside out, not the other way around. It is a travesty to educate our society that the villainous murders at Newtown, ...

The Equation to Destruction

Sunday, December 2, 2012 23:10

. . The subtraction of God from the learning process uproots learning at its base, and in turn channels it toward no ultimate goal. Various movements have developed in the Western culture since the Protest Reformation in the 1500's that saw God as the center of learning, and ...

The Public Schools and Political Correctness

Thursday, November 1, 2012 0:00

. . The schools of today are basic in determining the world of tomorrow. One undeniable factor is that there is a strong current flowing toward the development and maintenance of political correctness. Textbooks are often slanted to give positive support to non-Christian religions and cultures, alternate life-styles, ...

Education and the Three Books

Sunday, September 30, 2012 21:11

. . by Dr. Joe Renfro . Three books stand out in contemporary education with each proposing different philosophies of education, and they are the Bible, the Koran, and The Origin of the Species. The problem develops as to how and whether these can become strange bedfellows. There ...

Education and Discrimination?

Saturday, September 1, 2012 0:00

. . by Dr. Joe Renfro . The word “discrimination” at one time was regarded with high esteem. To be a discriminating person was to be an individual who could make wise, discerning judgments. But things have now changed as one of the platforms of contemporary education and ...

Free Bibles or Free Condoms?

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 20:26

. . by Dr. Joe Renfro . Can you believe that our public schools are prohibiting the distribution of free Bibles, while at the same time many are providing free condoms to whoever wants them?  Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: ...

The Educational Stimulus?

Saturday, July 14, 2012 21:21

. . The two words, “educational” and “stimulus” positively, affirmatively, and emphatically seem to come together in the American political climate. But a sad fact is that two other words, “spirit” and “truth” have in various ways been subtracted from the dialogue of learning. Our nation outspends all ...

The Intellectual Explosion and the Moral Implosion

Friday, June 1, 2012 0:00

. . There is a force, a pattern that is altering the minds of masses of our youth to where the learning, learning that should be coupled with the capacity for true moral judgments, is fading. Without question we are seeing a situation in our nation where the ...

The Learning that Kills the Mind

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 0:00

. . The Bible says in the last days, man shall be “ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7). Our brains and in turn our minds are in a constant state of change. Much of that which we learn, ...