Kindergarten
and first grade were bewildering to me. It seemed all the other kids knew what
the teacher was talking about, and I didn’t. I didn’t know the vocabulary. Why
did they? Or did they? In addition, I didn’t know anyone outside my own family.
My parents had four babies in four years and said it was “too much trouble” to
take us to church when we were young.
Four decades later, my mother told me the school had told the parents, “Don’t teach them anything; we will teach them everything.” My parents cooperated. Unfortunately, the advice was predicated on the assumptions that there was a body of information to be distributed, the school would assume that task, and we would be “educated,” as long as the parents did not interfere, none of which was entirely true. It was terrible advice.
We all know the Scriptures instructing us to teach children day and night, train them, bring them up in the knowledge of the Lord. In addition, the Bible tells believers to instruct, teach, and encourage other adults. King Solomon even asked God Himself to teach His people the right way to live. Teaching each other, adults as well as children, is God’s work, and it is commanded. Each of us knows or understands things another needs to know. Sisters, I guarantee that you know things about which I’m completely ignorant – just as I was in kindergarten.
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