Education is the way truth is passed on from one generation to the next. Or, at least it should be. It is always performed under the auspices of doing so, even when the truth being transmitted is candy-coated lies. Education always presupposes itself to be leading its pupils toward some greater end. It assumes on the front end something the student needs and doesn't have as well as the teacher having both it and the ability to relay it.
Education, then, is always, an attempt to communicate something that is received as the truth, even when that something is a lie. It may be known to be a lie or it may be believed to be true, but it is taught a though it were Gospel truth and required to be believed with as much passion as an altar call. Please come to the front of the class and testify to what you have seen and heard and now believe to be true. That is the nature of religion and education and that is because education is always religious and religion is always educational/covenantal. It always involves generations, information, transformation, justification, and sanctification.
Schools and churches both concern themselves with feeding the sheep. The schools like to think of them as little lambs and the churches like to think of them as flocks of sheep, but both view their people as theirs and look to give them what they believe is best for them.
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