Excerpt XXIV from Moral Goodness In Our Life-time, By Pastor Ajayi James B. C.
For example many parents ignore,or worse still,aid and abet their children’s unwholesome or tempting worldly activities that should be limited to mature adults who can reasonably control their personal emotions, feelings, thoughts and reactions that may likely bring them ruin.If parents keep thinking of material things,money,power and position at the expense of their children’s moral training,they have inadvertently left behind a vacuum for evil to fill.Evil conducts evil, evil radiates evil, evil transmits evil, evil propagates evil,sponsors evil, vomits evil.With the flow of the ocean of vice all over the world, not even the children of the king nor of the rich,nor of the powerful in any society will escape falling into the mire of the overwhelming evil.The only way to avoid avoid this evil is to replace the current vice in the mind of all children with the nursery of moral goodness.When men and women of good-will tend this nursery properly , when brave, selfless and upright people of this world capture this vision and make it a task and goal that must be achieved, it is then there will be hope for peace and happiness in this world.
2.2 THE ROLE OF TEACHERS.
“A builder builded a temple
He wrought with grace and skill
Pillars and grains and arches
All fashioned to work his will
Men said as they saw its beauty
‘It shall never know decay,
Great is thy skill,O builder
Thy game shall endure for aye’
A teacher builded a temple
With loving and infinite care
Planning each arch with patience
Laying each stone with prayer
None knew of his unceasing efforts,
None knew of his womderous plan,
For the temple the teacher builded
Was unseen by the eyes of man
Gone is the builder’s temple
Crumbled into dust.
Low lies each stately pillar
Food for consuming rust
But the the temple the teacher builded
Will last while the ages roll,
For that beautiful unseen temple
Is a child’s immortal soul.” – UNKNOWN (THE SPEAKER’S QUOTE BOOK, by Roy B.Zuck)
Formal education is a bridge linking the home with the government of the nation and therefore with the society. The builder of the bridge is ………(TO BE CONTINUED IN EXCERPT TWENTY-FOUR)
LEGENDARY QUOTE: “SOMEONE ASKED A FARMER, ‘HOW DO YOU HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL SHEEP?’ “I TAKE CARE OF THE LAMBS,” HE REPLIED – SPEAKER’S QUOTE BOOK BY Roy B. Zuck.
