Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" But today, does anyone care? Mike Smith talks about historic changes in American education on today's Home School Heartbeat.

Mike:


If you study the history of American education, you can't help noticing that we have drastically changed the way we think about truth. Today, people are unsure, or afraid to say that truth is even knowable. In contrast, the man on the street in Puritan New England knew that God's Word was the source of truth.


With this common consensus, early American communities had no qualms about using God's Word to educate their children. What a dramatically different scenario we face today.


Public education in the 21st century would be unrecognizable to our forefathers. The pluralistic mish mash of tolerance curriculum offered to students considers God's truth to be irrelevant. In fact, it assumes there is no objective truth at all.


Teachers attempt to affirm every possible concept of reality on the planet, with Christianity as the one exception to the rule. Young people receive little guidance, and each person does what is right in his own eyes.


How did this happen? Our belief in knowable truth has faltered because we've bought the myth of tolerance, which claims that all ideas are created equal. 1 Timothy 2:3 says that God wants all men to come to the knowledge of the truth that they might be saved. When the nation cries like Pilate, "What is truth?" let's be ready with the answer. And until next time, I'm Mike Smith.