This reminds me of a game show, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, that was called “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” This game show really drove the point home, and it’s still popular to watch to this day.
Coupled with other game shows, it shows that the general public knows more about pop and celebrity culture than they do about fundamental…
This reminds me of a game show, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, that was called “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” This game show really drove the point home, and it’s still popular to watch to this day.
Coupled with other game shows, it shows that the general public knows more about pop and celebrity culture than they do about fundamentals. This is what we’re up against when we’re giving consideration to membership in our Fraternity.
But this nugget of information also can start up another discussion, and that would be fine if it started here.
I think it very clear that when Preston and the others who worked so hard creating our ritual did it, they wanted to really push Masons towards learning, specifically the seven arts and sciences that in their time helped make a well rounded individual.
That is why so much of our Fellowcraft Degree is taken up by it. Unfortunately, I think that a great many Masons just let that part of our Lectures just wash over them without ever really sinking in.
The fact is that an educated man can not be easily enslaved. On the other hand, the uneducated man is very easily enslaved, even enslaved by his own passions. Without Logic, he can not think, without Rhetoric, he can not argue effectively, without Grammar, he can not write with impact. Such a man is very easily dominated and controlled both by his own ignorance, his own drives, and by others.
This reminds me of a game show, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, that was called “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” This game show really drove the point home, and it’s still popular to watch to this day.
Coupled with other game shows, it shows that the general public knows more about pop and celebrity culture than they do about fundamentals. This is what we’re up against when we’re giving consideration to membership in our Fraternity.
But this nugget of information also can start up another discussion, and that would be fine if it started here.
I think it very clear that when Preston and the others who worked so hard creating our ritual did it, they wanted to really push Masons towards learning, specifically the seven arts and sciences that in their time helped make a well rounded individual.
That is why so much of our Fellowcraft Degree is taken up by it. Unfortunately, I think that a great many Masons just let that part of our Lectures just wash over them without ever really sinking in.
The fact is that an educated man can not be easily enslaved. On the other hand, the uneducated man is very easily enslaved, even enslaved by his own passions. Without Logic, he can not think, without Rhetoric, he can not argue effectively, without Grammar, he can not write with impact. Such a man is very easily dominated and controlled both by his own ignorance, his own drives, and by others.