Controlled Ignorance
As Noted by a Substitute Teacher
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When we eliminate the teachings of the Bible from the foundations of our lives we eliminate the roots of our moral guidelines. What follows is the collapse of the fairness and justice of the laws that govern our communities. Without faith in something far greater than us--God the Father--the purpose for our lives becomes self-centered. We become less motivated to explore learning and more interested in satisfying our ever shifting desires. We idolize people and possessions that represent those desires and turn away from the loving warnings of God who gave us Ten Commandments. The pride in our hearts decides that those Commandments squash our freedom to follow our selfish desires, but we actually close the doors on our freedoms because we allow our idols and other people to dictate what is good. With our ignorance controlled, we blindly follow the dictates of our chosen gods, but those gods don’t love us back, they only control us. They cannot love us back.
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Ignorance is not bliss.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall inside your local public school?
These are the notes of an unnoticed substitute teacher who goes into the classrooms of public schools and observes the conditions of American student's. Find out why many of our millennial students graduate from high school, ignorant.
• Discover the many ways ignorance is controlled by those who choose information for the populace to know.
• Media, peer groups, social web sites, and political correctness deeply fill our culture’s group think tank and have become the Bibles for the new age.
• Be encouraged to fight apathy toward discovery and learning--for yourself and future generations.
• Turn our country back to the hopes and dreams of our founding mothers and fathers.
About the Author
Paula May-Bliss has a ministry degree from California Baptist University and continued there with graduate classes in Education. She earned her teaching certifications in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Special Education, Cross Cultural Education, as well as Adult Education and Literacy. She believes the phrase, “Ignorance is bliss” could not have been written by an ignorant person living a life blissfully unexamined, and that it is ignorance that hinders individuals and cultures from flourishing.
She believes there are various reasons education in America falls short of encouraging a joy for learning, and liberty of individual expression. As a wife, mother, teacher, and a custodial grandmother, she faced many similar challenges children, parents, and teachers experience across the country.
Having recently retired from teaching and substitute teaching she leaves her Sub. Notes behind, as is common when leaving a substitute teaching assignment after the last bell rings. She addresses the task of furnishing students from all socioeconomic environments with an equal chance to flourish, and become positive influences in society.