There was a time when we had fewer resources with more sense. Back when people had kind hearts and skilled hands. In the old days when children were taught to honor parents, and Grandparents. These were the days when the home served as dress rehearsal for life.
Students of Old School Teaching are not students of ignorance. Sons are taught to help their fathers in their old age. Daughters watch and learn from their mothers the art of overseeing the home/family. In both word and deed, help your parents. Being a good son and daughter to your parents is preparation for becoming good men and women of the world.
A good woman has been shown the power in not diminishing her husband’s manhood. She instead, exalts his manhood and demonstrates her honor of him in her words and deeds. On the other hand, a good man has probably had love demonstrated to him through the way his father loved his mother. Being always kind, encouraging one another in love and humility. Each realizing that we are greater, the more humble we become.
The old school teaching methods are needed more than ever in society. The assembly line of human multiplication is failing in its production of good men and women. This generation, with all of its resources and technology, is failing to arm our offspring with the tools necessary to navigate life. In the most basic education such as hygiene and household chores, this generation lacks knowledge. It doesn’t matter whether rich or poor, our children are overindulged and under qualified.
Those children spoiled and entitled based on family wealth, lack basic human empathy, humility towards, and/or respect for others. A Person deprived of opportunity can also lack in these fundamental human sentiments. The overindulged can develop many of the same characteristics as the under indulged. Not all times are these characteristics bad. When old school teaching has been a part of your upbringing, identifying with other people that is different from yourself, is easy when done with kindness, love, and humility.
The days of intimate marriage relations are under attack. The more money people earn, the less time they make for one another. Women are not kissed or hugged for years and become accustomed to that way of living. The wives do not honor men in their own homes, and the cycle continues through the example demonstrated to their children. Love in marriage is a lifestyle that displays how Christ loved His children.
The richest nations of the world are becoming bankrupted in the most basic of human affections. Children are being taught by the world and are more rebellious, manipulative, and disrespectful than ever, lovers of superficial, temporary, monetary stuff. Treating nothing with a sense of value, even their spouse, once old enough to marry. Are their parents demonstrating this behavior, or is this the result of worldly teaching? Either way, human society is doomed unless old school teaching returns.
Many people of rich nations are seeking companionship outside of the boarders of their native countries. Wealthy people are searching for kindness, humility, and good upbringing that can be found in poorer societies. While poor people are searching for love, kindness, opportunity, and a humble partner that will not control, degrade, or misuse them with their wealth. When these two diverse ways of existing meet by chance, one needing what the other can offer, there in-lies a great possibility for true love. The smallest of acts can bring happiness and joy to the one who benefits from gentle, priceless, yet free of charge generosity.
For it has been proven time and time again that money cannot buy happiness. Many will try, but they soon find that their money is only an extension of their heart. How one uses money and influence is a clear illustration of their ability to love or lack thereof. It can be used to uplift and encourage, or control, dominate, and demean. We are not made in wealth, only revealed by it. What makes us is our upbringing. How we act, with or without wealth, is a well-defined model of our most influential teacher. If you can self evaluate with honesty, and you are not a good person, sorry if it happens to be your parents who taught you.
If you are a product off the assembly line of old school teachings, chances are, you’re an excellent human being, whether rich or poor. It is time for you to assume the role of teaching others what you’ve been taught by previous generations, whether you are young or old. You are the last of a dying breed.
Ephesians 6:1-6
King James Version
6 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;”
Sirach 3
Good News Translation
Duties to Parents
3 “Children, listen to me; I am your father. Do what I tell you and you will be safe, 2 for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers. 3 If you respect your father, you can make up for your sins, 4 and if you honor your mother, you are earning great wealth. 5 If you respect your father, one day your own children will make you happy; the Lord will hear your prayers. 6 If you obey the Lord by honoring your father and making your mother happy, you will live a long life. 7 Obey your parents as if you were their slave.8 Honor your father in everything you do and say, so that you may receive his blessing. 9 When parents give their blessing, they give strength to their children’s homes, but when they curse their children, they destroy the very foundations.
10 Never seek honor for yourself at your father’s expense; it is not to your credit if he is dishonored. 11 Your own honor comes from the respect that you show to your father. If children do not honor their mothers, it is their own disgrace. 12 My child, take care of your father when he grows old; give him no cause for worry as long as he lives. 13 Be sympathetic even if his mind fails him; don’t look down on him just because you are strong and healthy. 14 The Lord will not forget the kindness you show to your father; it will help you make up for your sins. 15 When you are in trouble, the Lord will remember your kindness and will help you; your sins will melt away like frost in warm sunshine. 16 Those who abandon their parents or give them cause for anger may as well be cursing the Lord; they are already under the Lord’s curse.
Humility
17 My child, be humble in everything you do, and people will appreciate it more than gifts.[a] 18 The greater you become, the more humble you should be; then the Lord will be pleased with you.[b] 20 The Lord’s power is great, and he is honored by those who are humble. 21 Don’t try to understand things that are too hard for you, or investigate matters that are beyond your power to know. 22 Concentrate on the Law, which has been given to you. You do not need to know about things which the Lord has not revealed, 23 so don’t concern yourself with them. After all, what has been shown to you is beyond human power to understand. 24 Many people have been misled by their own opinions; their wrong ideas have warped their judgment.[c]
26 Stubbornness will get you into trouble at the end. If you live dangerously, it will kill you. 27 A stubborn person will be burdened down with troubles. Sinners go on adding one sin to another. 28 There is no cure for the troubles that arrogant people have; wickedness has taken deep root in them. 29 Intelligent people will learn from proverbs and parables. They listen well because they want to learn.
Giving to the Poor
30 Giving to the poor can make up for sin, just as water can put out a blazing fire. 31 Anyone who responds to others with acts of kindness is thinking of the future, because he will find help if he ever falls on hard times.”