Who can you trust philosophically?--part 3

 

One thing for sure, public education will not directly teach the next generation of church musicians wrong things about God because they are not allowed to include God or biblical principles of musicing in their music knowledge.  Federal law in the USA  has mandated that public education can no longer retain God in  educational knowledge.  However, the fact that public schools and universities will not directly teach false concepts of God does not indicate that no false “God-education” will take place in the music classrooms of these educational institutions. 

 By eliminating God as the Creator and Lord of all music education, public education relays strong false messages about the nature and value of music to our young people.  Public education can no longer recognize God in the development of a philosophical basis for music education.  As a matter of fact, teaching God as the basis of all philosophical musical thought is forbidden.  The only safe path in public education is to omit the authority of God in any philosophical discussion of music.
  In public education, no sacred music concerts are legal and the sacred classics may only be taught or performed as music literature.  It is also most often mandated that there be no Christmas or Easter concerts.  The only time that it is totally legal to mention God in the music classroom is when the music instructor stubs his or her toe on the desk leg. 

Contemporary music educators are now so squeezed into the world’s mold that they do not seem to realize that the whole belief-system that music is amoral is the result of humanistic autonomous music philosophy.  It is no wonder that you can trust a humanist to conclude that all music endeavor begins and ends with man.  The philosophical bias of a humanist will always be that all meaning in life (if they even admit that there there is meaning in life) will be the result of self-actualization and the act of authentication of a  person’s free will.