day no. 16,385: new ideas are often taught by those with no idea

"The trouble in too many of our modern schools is that the State, being controlled so specially by the few, allows cranks and experiments to go straight to the schoolroom when they have never passed through the Parliament, the public house, the private house, the church, or the marketplace. Obviously, it ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people; the assured and experienced truths that are put first to the baby. But in a school today the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself. The flopping infant of four actually has more experience, and has weathered the world longer, than the dogma to which he is made to submit. Many a school boasts of having the last ideas in education, when it has not even the first idea." — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

The problem of progressive education is that it insists on finding new ways to teach the oldest subjects. It only considers current views of older perspectives. As a result, the curriculum is often younger than the child. But children were not meant to be the subjects of experiments. They were not born into a place and time in history in order to be raised experimentally as if no other place and time had ever mattered until now. New ideas are often taught by those with no idea. Last things are taught by those who don't know the first thing.

"But this, as I say, is all due to the mere fact that we are managed by a little oligarchy; my system presupposes that men who govern themselves will govern their children." — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

Government begins with oneself. God has given each of us a self to govern. We are responsible for who we are and what we do. We all have a small realm to rule inside our chests, heads, and bodies. And God calls every square inch of them to love Him -- all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength.

The one who governs himself is qualified to govern others, but not a moment before.

The self-governed are then obligated to teach others to govern themselves. They lead others to lead themselves. The self-governing must take responsibility for others. 

All self-government must begin with God from whom we receive life, breath and everything else. Thus all government of others must also begin by reminding them of their duty to govern themselves before God who governs all governors and judges all jurisdictions.