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     On  many  occasions  religious leaders  have  trained
young  people  to  recite  standard  answers  to  standard
questions of doctrine.  Even  today money is paid to young
people who master the technique  of reciting long lists of
such  answers.    The  dominant  focus  is  upon  accurate
recitation  of the correct answer in much the same way  as
the   modern  computer  is  expected  to  retrieve  stored
information  without  failure.  With  such  a  focus  upon
doctrine it was natural that there will be a fragmentation
of   the   fellowship  of  those  who   live   by   faith;
fragmentation  into groups that recited different  answers
to  like  or different questions.   The test  of  personal
acceptability  naturally  came to depend upon the accurate
recitation  of  correct answers to correct questions.  The
natural consequence has been estrangement and alienation.

     The  scientific  experimental  way of  seeking  truth
introduced  a  challenge  to  the  way  of  recitation  of
authoritative  answers  to questions  regarding  hope  and
meaning  in  death  and life.    The  democratic  form  of
government  introduced  a challenge to the way of  royalty
and  dictators.   The  capitalist  economy  introduced   a
challenge  to  former ways of distributing rights  to  the
necessities of life.

     Yet, today we find in science courses that recitation
of theory,  with out familiarity with reality, to be quite
common.    We  find  leaders  at  the  highest  levels  of
government  reciting their commitment to  high ideals.  We
find businessmen  reciting  out-of-date capitalist theory,
as if it was eternal, rather than pragmatic.

     Education  is  not the training of  youth  to recite.
Education is the enabling of youth to become themselves in
their  own  unique  way  ---  with personal integrity  and
faithfulness to their own knowledge of their own emotional
responses to reality.  Recitation regarding that which has
in  no way touched one's life is  a deadly game,  a   game
which  can  do  great violence to the  self-image  of  the
players.    They may cease to live as they  lose  by touch
with their  deeper  natures---in   spending  their limited
time  on  recitations of that which they  know  not,   and
understand not.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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