Saturday, June 8, 2002
Saturday, June 8, 2002
"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell you?
But what did Rousseau do when his five children needed education? He sent them away to an
orphanage. He knew they would receive an education there.
There are hypocrites everywhere. The sad part about hypocrisy is its destructiveness. We can't
be two people without tearing ourselves apart. That is the second reason this is such a
mystifying question--the destructiveness of saying one thing and doing another.
"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and do not do what I tell you?"
(Luke 6.46
NRSV)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great post-enlightenment thinker who has had such an impact on
so much of current thinking on education, wrote an influential book called CONFESSIONS. His
primary thesis, and his most influential theory, was that the best education is no education.
Self-expression was much more important.
Dear God, yes, I have failed you, but I am not giving up. Your grace and love for me in Jesus
Christ is sufficient. Amen.
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