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
endeavors begin and end with man. The
philosophical bias of a humanist will always be that all meaning in life (if
they even admit that there is meaning in life) will be the result of
self-actualization and the act of authentication of a person’s free will.
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