to Parents of WFISD

Leonardo DaVinci looked at nature and saw the things of God. Robots "look" at a scene and digitize it (fragment it) and store it in a data base and fail to make the analog connections so necessary in understanding.

Which way do you want your child taught?

DaVinci saw a bird soaring on a current of air and wathed it spiral up and down in the vortex of wind.

Then he took time to look at a stream, and noticed the whirlpools there.

He recognized the pattern of a vortex in the air by the birds floating on it, and in the water by the leaves being carried down into the whirlpool. He made the connection in his understanding, and from there went on to discover and prove how the vortex operates in the human heart to close the aortic valve. Modern science rediscovered this only 15 years ago. DaVinci knew how to think.

He learned this from taking time to be still and reflect on what he had observed, not from being kept busy constantly with trivial activities.

Two approaches to learning.
1. The right way. Tell a child he can learn the foundations and from that build his understanding as needed to know whatever he desired. Tell him when he learns to recognize repeating patterns, and connections, he can faithfully build, construct, from his present knowledge to whatever he wants to learn. This way he is not overwhelmed with a sense of hoplessness in learning enough for what he needs; but instead he is given a sense of security in the foundational knowledge and is able to trust that for building any other he may choose. Everything that is taught should be connected back to the foundations and the path of that connection pointed out to the student. The beauty of this is seen when you consider what America's first Secretary of War said "Any law by any nation that is contrary to the laws of God is null and invalid." He was requiring anything new to conform to his established body of knowledge. This same principle is seen when you place a dot on a page as a starting point and from that dot extend a line down and to the left, then again starting from the same dot extend a line down and to the right. If those two lines and the space between them represent what you know to be true and good, then you know anything that is found within them is safe to accept, while anything outside those boundaries may be falling off the clift, unsafe. This is the beauty of heirarchial knowledge. Ordered in all things, as is God's covenant with us and all His word concerning our children.

When you start from the simple and work to the complex, due order and due process is clear. Cause and effect becomes evident. When you start from the beginning and work from there to the end, things fall into place. What is the Beginning and the End? Many problems come from missing this understanding.

2. The wrong way. Tell a child there's countless data bits he could learn, he'll never be able to learn them all, and oh, by the way, here's a few dozen isolated data bits for you to memorize today. And oh, all this you see came randomly through evolution out of chaos. The law of Entrophy broke down here and worked in reverse. When two of my own children were in junior high at Barwise they actually had a course called Chaos. And in some books the Law of Entrophy had been renamed to The Law of Chaos. And the school was teaching that to children for a while. They failed to teach a strongly connected concept called The Thresh-Hold Effect which is necessary to understanding the chaos theory of a butter fly wing. But that's just another example of teachers following the book because they're told to and ignoring their own wisdom so they can conform to whatever the newest fad of text books says they have to teach. Just let the teachers know it is safe for them to conform to what the parents desire for their children. Parents pay their salary. Let's not forget this basic fact. Don't let the government use your money to do things you don't want. That's what we need to learn again from early America. But it's also something they're not teaching in school like they did in 1850. See the 1850 school book "The Lives of the Signers" Remember. The phrase children learned in their Chaos class was "a beating butterfly wing can cause a storm on the other side of the world". The Thresh-Hold Effect explains how a rocket can't go into orbit unless it surpasses a certain thresh-hold. Incomplete teaching results from lack of respect for foundational understanding, or maybe just from lack of foundational understanding.

So, my question to you is, Do you want your child to be given random bits of fragmented facts and left with an impression of an endless ocean of data? Or instead wouldn't it be better to show him from the top down what he needs to know. To accomplish this, it is necessary to let him know the origin of all and all. So now you have to choose between Christ or Chaos. Modern education is teaching Chaos Theory, and children are led to believe we came out of chaos and all that goes with chaos. Is this what you want to allow with your child?

I tell you if you point them to the story of Daniel and the three Hebrew children in Babylon and how they excelled by their faith towards God, many will get the hint. To rob them of this is a terrible sin.

Please fight for the right in what your children learn or don't learn. Amen.