Tag: Education

How to Socially Engineer Secularism

· Hieromonk Gabriel
Apparently, using AI to learn how to socially engineer the secularization of vast numbers of Middle Eastern refugees really is a thing. It seems that, to paraphrase Turkey’s ErdoÄźan, “pluralism” is a train you get off once you have reached your destination. The goal of the project is to give politicians an empirical tool that will help them assess competing policy options so they can choose the most effective one. It’s a noble idea:…

Mental Illness and Childhood

· Hieromonk Gabriel
Matt Walsh has written a very insightful article about the recent meteoric rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses in school-aged children. Children are being diagnosed — and consequently are being prescribed powerful psychiatric medications — at ever higher rates and at ever younger ages. On what basis are these diagnoses being made? Walsh has a hypothesis: Well, the National Institute of Mental Health offers a clue (emphasis mine): People who have ADHD have combinations…

Making Saints: Toward Establishing Orthodox Schools

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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to form any conviction. -Hannah Arendt I’ve been writing a lot about Orthodoxy and education lately. However, I have as yet done little more than to point out the utter travesty which modern public education has become, as well as to emphasize the dire necessity of founding Orthodox schools for our children. Providentially, a friend forwarded me a…

Will Our Children Keep the Faith?

· Hieromonk Gabriel
The Catastrophe of Modern Education I have already written on multiple occasions of the urgent necessity of creating Orthodox parish schools in America. Our nation’s public schools have degenerated into prison-like institutions which have outlawed all mention of Truth (the Second Person of the Trinity), which forbid any public prayer to the Lord God, which teach sexual propaganda and promote infanticide to kindergarteners, which lead students to believe that they will likely be…

On Education and School Shootings

· Hieromonk Gabriel
May God have mercy on us. Yet another school shooting yesterday, with 10 dead and as many wounded. And this time the murderer came from an Orthodox family. And even some the students who survived are not really surprised that it happened: A video interview with one student, Paige Curry, spread across social media, an artifact of a moment when children have come to expect violence in their schools. “Was there a…

The Desert and the City

· Hieromonk Gabriel
The important conversation I have been having with a reader about finding Orthodox community in the modern world continues, and his most recent response is again so important that I thought that I should repost it from the comments section and reply to it here: Father, bless! Thank you for your responses. You’re right that I was referring in a glancing way to Dreher’s Benedict Option, and I appreciate your perspective and counsel.…

Public Schools and Antichristianity

· Hieromonk Gabriel
Matthew Cochran has just published an extremely important article exposing the subversive indoctrination tactics being used in current sex education programs in public schools today. According to its publisher, the specific curriculum which he investigates is being used (as of 2017) by over 50 school districts across the country, including 11 of the largest 25. As Cochran details in his article (please read it), the program adopts a tone of innocuous impartiality…