I came across the unschooling movement for the first time today. These people believe in no formal education but that all is learned through everyday experiences. Don't teach your child to read they will learn how to do it themselves they say. Yeah right, all the kids I know just want to read, read, read all of the time. If my parents bought into this I'd be illiterate.
The scary thing is that Google returned 99,300 sites for unschooling. Yahoo returned 469,000.
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I guess all the illiterate people use Yahoo?
Lisen dud me wus ejucatud jest goowd on me owwn!!
I have always thought that Google was the "thinking man's" search engine.
So, who wants to sign up for the shuttle trip that these folks design?
Whee!
It is funny how some people think that wisdom is ALWAYS learned by osmosis! Even in the primitive cultures, they have 'wise men' or elders who pass on the knowledge gathered through many lifetimes...
I agree that not all knowledge is wisdom, but SOME of it is...
I too agree that not all knowledge is wisdom. This unschooling movement strikes me as irresponsible. We are supposed to train up our children are we not?
Absolutely irresponsible. And these are the same people who will want the government to step in and create programs for their children so they can 'compete' in the world... Let's dumb everything down to a common (dumb) denominator, rather than push every to aspire to something greater...
Look at sermons in the church today, or newscasts on TV... They are but the tip of the dumb iceberg! No one uses words that are above 3rd grade level, even when the CONCEPTS require that! Let's boil everything down to something that fits in a five-miinute time slice, using the most basic words we can, and even then, let's explain them...
Amazing how no one is responsible for their actions!
Notice how speeches are written as sound bytes and not as speeches anymore. I always enjoy watching W pause where there was supposed to be applause but there is none.
Wanna know what's really scary? Hagee, that pastor guy in San Antonio does the same thing!
I have not watched Hagee in years but he was always entertaining.
Try this on for size - “I talk about things for everyday life. I don’t get deep and theological.” Joel Osteen, pastor of the largest church in the country. How's that for dumbing down the "sheep?"
That comment alone might account for the size of his church.
Hey Ryan/Charles - on a separate note. I am doing the 100k Cat 5 race at Wichita Falls. First Cat 5 race for me. My brother and a couple other friends are doing it as well.
My goal is to finish in the front group. Right now, the longer I go, the better I feel. Rode 86 miles on saturday. My brother and I are both real strong right now, so we should be able to maybe work together.
Charles- hope to see you there, we ran into each other last yr.
Jon
Well, regarding Joel Osteen, when a pastor writes a book called 'Your Best Life Now', then I have a hard time with him anyway...
I can't imagine this being my best life; that certainly puts a pall over heaven, doesn't it?
I agree, these are the reasons for the size of his church...
TIME called Osteen the most influential evangelical in America. That is a stunning endorsement of the Evangelical movement in America.
Time...? Hmmm, the same magazine who called T.D. Jakes (a Oneness Pentecostal) the next Billy Graham... Interesting....
Sad part, most people who call themselves evangelical would agree on both fronts...
I agree with you that sadly most evangelicals would agree on both fronts.
Why do black pastors call themselves Bishops?
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