"The Best Thing Parents Can Do For Their Young Children"

As this writer has stated several times on this blog, the comments underneath an article are many times more informative than the information in the article itself. For example, take this American Thinker article, regarding the left's favorite pejorative being the word "uneducated" (someone without a college education).

Regarding education and just who is truly educated, in the comments section of the above article, Roadmaster commented :

"In my opinion, credits from the School of Hard Knocks and a degree in Real Life are a much better education than what is sold to young people today ...... The best thing parents can do for their young children is to teach them the love of reading and make them inquisitive, seekers of knowledge. This must be ingrained and re-enforced frequently throughout their school years, because if they aren't taught to be independent, critical thinkers the education system will leech it out of them and they'll become just another drone for the Leftists. If they don't know how to think, they'll be taught what to think."

This writer totally agrees with the above comments, crediting the School of Hard Knocks, a degree in Real Life, and a love of God's Word, for providing me the tools to get through life's difficult times (for over 70+ years - see here). Additionally, if parents want their children to be truly educated, they will "teach them the love of reading and make them inquisitive, seekers of knowledge" (see above comments). Becoming "independent, critical thinkers" is a "must" for success, not only in the secular world, but in the spiritual world as well (see here and here). Noah Webster once stated this truism: "Education is useless without the Bible" (see here).

Beloved, "the best thing parents can do for their young children" is to teach them, not only the love of reading, making them inquisitive seekers of knowledge, but that true education, i.e., the ability to make sound and wise decisions, demands not only intelligence (Isaiah 1:18), but "a heart totally devoted to God" (cf. Numbers 14:24; Deuteronomy 1:36; Joshua 14:14 - see article).

---Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets