day no. 16,097: education is the cultivation of just sentiments

Psalm 34:8

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good

Education is the cultivation of just sentiments.

“Famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.” — C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

If your affections are out of order, you don’t repent by becoming unaffectionate. You can’t live that way. You cannot refuse to care. You cannot not love. If you try, you will find that you are zealous about not caring or passionately committed to debunking the outlandish affections of others.

The solution to a wild heart is not a hard heart, but a heart transplant.

Ezekiel 36:26-27

I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

We don't need no loves, we need better ones. We don't need no heart, but new ones.

Ephesians 6:4 (ESV, KJV)

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord... And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Fathers are to nourish their children in the way of the Lord. They are to feed their children’s souls and fill them with good things. Discipline is not merely corrective, but instructive. It doesn't merely show you what you did wrong, but show you what's good and true and beautiful and works hard to steer your affections towards that which merits them and to provide as many examples as possible in persuading and training the palate. God deserves our love and it is our duty to teach our children to love Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.