Strategy In The Schools
The broad strategy of the attack being waged through education
is to alter the child’s general outlook on life. This
strategy is pursued by providing textbooks, literature, and other
teaching materials that promote the humanistic philosophy. Such
items permeate the educational system.
One of the main thrusts in this assault on the conscience of the
child is the “values clarification”
approach. This is a cleverly calculated scheme to get the child
to renounce the values he has learned at home and develop his own
values. To encourage the child to make the change, the humanistic
material tries to convince the child that all values are of equal
worth, that whatever values are right for him are right,period.
He is taught that there are no absolutes, no such thing as right
and wrong. In choosing his value system, the child is urged to
use a seven-step approach.
1. Choose the value freely, that is, without guidance from any
other source, whether parents, church or society.
2 Make the choice from a set of alternatives, including those
different from the values of parents, church or society.
3. Make the choice after considering consequences, again, from
the child’s own understanding and without the help of
parents, church or society.
4. Be proud of the value chosen because it is the child’s
very own, arrived at with the guidance of his own personal
feelings.
5. Make the choice public and stand by it, be courageous enough
to profess the value openly and influence peers to adopt it.
6. Act on the value, take steps to put the principle into
practice.
7. Act on the value regularly, make it a part of a lifestyle that
characterizes the child.
To even the semi-alert Christian, this approach waves a red
warning flag at every step.
First, it’s sheer nonsense to suggest that a child can
choose values without any help from anyone. Since the usual
sources of guidance are forbidden, parents, church and community,
the child is left at the mercy of the suggestions inherent in the
humanistic approach itself. And what are those suggestions?
Reject everything you’ve been taught by your parents,
anything you may have heard in the church or read in the Bible,
all that the traditions of your community hold to be proper
conduct, and “do your own thing.” Forget about right
and wrong. Whatever you “feel” to be right for you is
right.