Restudying the Field of Education

In the Western world, education became formal with scriptures such as the Old Testament. This education can be viewed as how- to, vocational, or practical teachings. Education became more formal in Greece with the writings of Plato and Aristotle. They focused on God and on the human mind. Following Plato and Aristotle, the highest level of human education on the subject of God appears through the teachings of Jesus Christ. Christ's method of teaching was unique and the content of His teachings was divine. Following the divine education of Christ, the education in the Western world was limited primarily to the teachings of the Christian schools. These schools were generalized and became known as Scholasticism. The early scholastic teachers recognized the need to solve many philosophical problems such faith and reason, reality and nominalism, will and intellect, and the provability of the existence of God. However, Scholasticism made a major error when it adopted Aristotle’s logical science as its method of thought. This error was detected in the 14th century, when the Italian Renaissance emerged. During the Renaissance, Aristotle’s science was challenged and Scholasticism began to fall. After this fall, the accepted method of thinking and the content of education was based primarily on the scientific method of proof. This method led to 'modern science' and those specific sciences we find in schools today.

However, the initial development of the scientific method of proof was limited by the physical sciences. This limit allows a scientist to apply the scientific method only to subjects of the universe. This limit caused many physical scientists to become atheists almost immediately. I argue that this limit is a major cause of atheism and its rise today. In ‘The First Scientific Proof on God,’ I overcome this limit and extend the scientific method to subjects of God. By eliminating this limit, God and the universe become eternal partners and panentheism is confirmed. Change is now necessary at all levels of education.

Using the initial version of the scientific method, the physical sciences developed many new technologies. Unfortunately, this success lured the nonphysical sciences (e.g., sociology, psychology, biology, medical science, political science, etc.) to the limited version of the scientific method. Even some theologians and religions followed the tunes of the physical scientists. Today, the tunes of the physical scientists will be found in the many biased and unproven teachings of the media and our elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities. The unproven and biased teachings of evolution theory is only one example.

Clearly, the educational systems throughout the world are in deep trouble. This means that humans are not getting the education they need to advance human life. In ‘The First Scientific Proof of God,’ I begin to fix some of the problems that I found in these systems.