day no. 16,615: eraducation

"The central point of Abolition had to do with the demolition job that a certain pernicious form of education accomplishes when consistently applied. When this form of education is set loose among the children of men, the end result is the eradication of men. Lewis is pointing to the difference between being educated and being erased. Nothing is more obvious at the end of the process and so hard to see at the beginning of it." — Doug Wilson, The Light from Behind the Sun

There is an education that is an eradication. It strip mines the mind rather than planting seeds in it. It holds its pencils pointed up. What it writes upon the hearts of men is emptiness. It is eraducation: eradicating what it educates. It is slaking thirst with salt water. At best, it is by accident, but at its worst, it is intentional. But either way, the end result of those who adopt it is abandonment. Those who feast on poison cannot be full for long. By the grace of God that kind of nonsense either dies or is vomited up. Either way, there will be a mess to clean up, but in any event, the ascended Son of God has proven He isn't too proud to stoop.