Good morning,
The letter was great, and the thoughts better. This is one of those
age-old issues, you know.....noble causes and all that. Don't feel alone
and don't give it up, it is going on in a lot of places as people awaken
to the realization of what we have created through our systems of
education. In fact, some time ago I was reading an old issue of another
Republic and a guy wrote this ---
"You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work,
especialy in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at
which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more
readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual
tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their
minds ideas for the most part very opposite of those which we should wish
them to have when they are grown up?"
"We cannot.....anything received into the mind at that age is likely to
become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that
the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous
thoughts....."
Then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and
sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of
fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze
from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from the earliest years
into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason."
"There can be no nobler training than that."
---- Plato
Keep the faith and Regards,
-- Bill BSCHRUM@lhl.gundluth.org