Human Values Vanished

Occasionally you hear or read the saying “Life is wasted on the young.” A saying I believe began around 1960. However, it appears that the ‘young’ as referred to here nowadays means a great many people from around age 50 to the present (and as far into the future as can be seen). As I see it, the life wasted on the young deals with loss through disregard for human values now as virtually non-existent by the masses. Decide for yourself. To help you ponder on the truth of our sad loss of human values, I will relate a real, telling story from around 1960. As I pen this article, that equates to a clear 50 years ago. Many years ago, before losing our sense of decency, quality standards and human values, a teacher friend taught young students in a small village school in England. (You could also once apply this same story to any town or city in America.) This teacher had a rule that every student who told a lie in school would receive seven strokes on the palm with a strap. (By the way, this was not a parochial school.) One day a little girl told a lie and was called before the class to receive her punishment. She was a sensitive little thing, and the teacher was very sorry to have to strike her with the strap, but he must enforce the rule. When she received the first stroke her cry of pain went straight to his heart; he could not continue. Yet he could not pass by her punishment. This is what he did: He looked over to the young boys in class and asked, “Is there any boy here who will bear the rest of her strokes?” As soon as his words were spoken, a little fellow called Jim stood and said, “Please, sir, I will!” and Jim went up to the desk and received without a cry, the six remaining strokes of the strap. The teacher then had a vision of a Heart gentler still than that of this brave lad, but gentle with the same kind of gentleness, which filled the teacher’s eyes with tears, and made him close his books and asked his student-scholars to come round his desk. As they surrounded him, he told of the Gentle One who long ago bore the punishment of us all. The story he told them is ours today. This is a touching, human interest story from far gone days, now relished in memory only by those of us who remember America as she was, beautiful and full of human and Christian meaning, from sea to shining sea. How far we have strayed from normal human values is indicative of our gross degeneration, degrading our human race. It would not be possible today to punish a student without someone bringing in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to charge the teacher – and his institution – with some sort of wrong-doing. Nor would it be possible for the teacher to bring his students “round his desk, and tell them of the Gentle One Who long ago bore the punishment of us all.” Nor could the one telling the story, however correct, be able to say: “The story he told them is ours today,” without more charges of “forcing religion” by atheistic students taught by ignorant parents, with the aid of the ACLU and the support of the National Teachers Association and Union. Along with our arrogant Legislators in Washington, these entities are now a great part of our country’s degradation in our once quality values. They no longer are concerned with the decent development of our children as contributors to our society and possible future leaders. Teachers in their groups have been, and continue to be, a subversive element, determined to destroy the greatness of this country by their liberal stance on virtually everything we formerly held dear. Teachers have been engaged in intently causing deterioration in classrooms across this nation long enough for us to take notice of their affects on our society. Leading the way is eroding morals, promoting inordinate, Liberal lifestyles and acceptance of such, abandoning Patriotism, honest American History, World Geography, are but examples. Recent news reported that today’s young students could not even write, they no longer learn cursive writing – and do a terrible job of printing! That is out; text messaging is in. Parent Teachers Association (PTA) need to reenergize their group to care as they did many years ago. It will be no easy task. More and more, the human condition and morals go down the toilet with little to no concern by those who are most likely the ones who ought to care; if moved to care, it is usually too late. Most of the young of 50 years ago (the Woodstock generation) passed on their careless attitude to their young of today. The human values that have vanished leaves us without desirable quality leaders and future leaders. Our last election in 2008 was a strong indication of our lack of leadership; we had no one qualified with the right attitude to be president, selected by either political party. We ended up with a no-nothing, inexperienced president that is making a shambles of our economy, and ignores our country’s historical values, while continuously apologizing and bowing to foreign countries for our history of saving the world through human sacrifice. A president bent on reshaping America’s heritage, trading Freedom for Socialism. We all must face the fact that our elected officials are sent to Washington by our vote. All of those in Washington represent the attitude of the people that send them there. This weakened nationwide condition does not bode well for our beloved America. Unless we renew our purpose as an independent Government with individual liberty and freedom, with quality human values, the end for us as “one Nation under God” will soon be history. Thanks for visiting. - Bob Rom 13:12-14