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Fcbruary,
1970
Rcsidcnce Halls at Cornell, where jun–
ior and senior girls have virtually no
curfew, says:
"U?'e don't ask what they
do and don'! u ·ant lo know.
We don't
ask because the girls are presumed to
be responsible." But she added that,
"we know that al! are not responsible."
The rcsult of all this supposed cn–
lightenment is
110t
happiness. The result
is the
alienated
student who feels
"washed up" at
25,
who takes drugs or
smokes pot and is
bored, apathetic
and
1111happ;.
He does not know
why
he is
alive,
whel'e
he is going, or if there is
any purpose to life.
An increasing number of these pitiful
types are
rommitting micide.
Dr. Mat–
thew Ross, an associate professor of
psychiatry at Harvard's medica! school,
warns only auto accidents take the lives
of more college studeots than suiciJes.
The suicide rate for college students is
50
percent higher than for Americans
in general of a comparable age.
What kind of "education" are thesc
young people receiviog?
W
rong
KIND
of Education
The root
CAUSE
of the frighten ing
wave of crime, violence aod alienation
among young people is the
wrong kiud
of edNcation.
But the problem is not new. The
early Greek and Roman rntellectuals, as
one learned Roman citizen phrased it,
"did not like to retain God
in
their
know/edge."
Neither do their counter–
parts today. They are very intent
on learning how to make a living, or
how to build weapons to
destroy
human
life, or at best, how to feed
rtltJ
sci–
entifically. They are very busy with
these "important'' matters! But where
are the answers to the big questions of
life?- (
l)
ho111
the earth and all l ife
carne into being,
(2)
what
man is, (3)
the great
PURPOSE
of human existence,
(4) the immutable
laws of life
which
- if understood and obeyed - pro–
duce
hetdth, happiness,
and continuing
petlre
with your fellowman, and (5) the
Ipi,•itlltd tmths
which bring man into an
intimate relationship with his Creator.
No, these are too often the ''incon–
sequentials"! They are not worthy of
the "educatcd" man's attention and
study!
Or
ARE
THEY? What do
yo11
think?
The
PLAlN TRUTH
19
AmbcwadCH'
College
Pholo
Ambossodor students enjoy o short break between closses neor the
librory, Posodeno campus.
The DANGER of a Completely
Materialistic Educadon
America and the Westero powers had
better wake up to one fact. Total
neglect of spiritual values and truths
in order to engage in a race with atheis–
tic Soviet Russia to produce more hor–
rifying weapons of
DESTRUCTION
is
plunging us toward
uational micide!
History teaches that when any nation or
people neglects the spiri tual and moral
education of its children, its
DOOM
is
sealed.
In his historie address before the as–
sembled Congress of the United States,
General Douglas M.tcArthur laid bare
the utter futility of
war
and
materiaiistic
ed11cation
in constant preparation for
war.
He said: "I know war as few other
meo now living know lt, and nothing to
me -
and nothing lo me-
is more re-
volting.... Men since the beginning of
time have sought peace.... Mi litary al–
liances, balances of power, League of
Nations; all in turn failed, 1eaving the
only path to be by way of the crucible
of war.
The Nller destmctiveneJJ of
war
now blocks this altemative.
We
HAVE
H.AD
OUR LAST CHJ\NCE.
lf
we wiJI not
devise sorne greater and more equitable
system, our
Armageddon u·ili be
at
our
door.
The
problem basicaJly
is
TH EO–
LOGICAL
tmd i11voives
a spirit of recru–
descence and
!MPROVEMENT OF HUMAN
CHARACTER
that will synchronize with
our almost matchless advances in sci–
ence, art, literature and all the material
and cultural developments of the past
2000
years."
He concluded:
"lt
m11st be of the
SPIRIT
if we are lo save
the
flesh."
We had better
WAKE UP
to the
dan–
ge,•s
and
e·vi/s
of a false education.
If