The call for ethical and principled teaching and leadership seems ever more urgent and needed. This is in part because many of our most moral, ethical and principled educators and leaders have been silenced or terminated over the last 6-9 months.
“There is only one way to change the world, and that is by education. You have to teach children the importance of justice, righteousness, kindness and compassion. You have to teach them that freedom can only be sustained by the laws and habits of self-restraint.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
Freedom may be fought for and won, but it can never be kept without the foresight to educate the children of freedom about justice and compassion. And also about history and truth, and to supply them with critical thinking skills.
Without such a deep and broad education they will grow to falsely claim that communism or socialism offers them freedom; or that that fascism is good because those in power only have the best wishes of the masses at heart.
The kingdoms, empires and countries of the past all declare that freedom does not last, when a full and proper education is denied to the people.
Sadly, this is the reality here in Australia today and in many other countries including the USA. The education system has rejected the teaching of true justice, of righteousness and self-restraint, but just as significantly it has neglected developing in students the vital skills of discernment and critical thinking.
In one of the great speeches of the 20th century, a distinguished American justice, Judge Learned Hand, said:
‘I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.’
When children are well educated in the value of freedom and the power of the Almighty, as adults they are a lot more likely to recognize His hand at work in the most challenging of times.
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