Well, if my three-way power structure is correct, the GB is shooting themselves in the foot by driving out the smart ones. The congregations feed the money machine which feeds the presses. You need the elder/MS arrangement to keep the congregations functioning. Cut off the leadership, beat the sheep, and they will scatter. Money dries up. Printing services slows, the mouthpiece of the GB will be shouting to an echoing cavern. No audience.
My Prediction: More Elders, Ministerial Servants & Pioneers Will Be Removed
by minimus 43 Replies latest jw friends
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daystar
I was thinking about this last night. I suspect that as the years have gone by, the level of general education in primary school has gotten more advanced.
I mean, my father, who is in his sixties, never took any advanced courses in high school. They simply were not available. I, on the hand, was taking advanced everything, from computer science, to physics, to psychology, course that many years ago were not generally available in the high schools. (I could be wrong, but I believe that I am correct.)
Perhaps part of the shift is due in no small part to the fact that kids are getting more advanced knowledge than they used to through high school?
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minimus
"For once Mini, I think you're right".....per Honesty. Blank you.
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pc
I guess the lawyers they use, and doctors they see, and wall street investment advisors they go to get thier expertise from the Watchtower. Who needs college!
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jgnat
THIS is why the WTBTS does not want their youth to get higher education:
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daystar
jgnat
On the nose.
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sir82
Daystar,
I think the point is not so much the content of the classes in high school vs. college.
The point is, so much more is expected of you in college. The teacher doesn't send you home with a note pinned to your shirt if you forget to turn in your homework--you just get an F, and those thousands of $ you spent on tuition go right down the drain. I.e., one of the most important things you learn is personal responsibility.
And, the other thing you learn is critical thinking. In high school everyone there grew up in the same community, and probably had a similar background. In college, you've got a bazillion new people, from radically different backgrounds, who all have different ideas. Throw them into a class where there is open dialogue, and you are exposed to all kinds of new thoughts. Who do you believe? Does what they say make sense? How do you decide?
That's what you learn in college, and that is what the Society doesn't want you to do.
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GoingGoingGone
Perhaps part of the shift is due in no small part to the fact that kids are getting more advanced knowledge than they used to through high school?
The reason that high schools are now offering advanced courses, is because the world today is so much more fast-moving and competitive than it was even 20 years ago.
The fact remains that without a good college education, you'll most likely be stuck in a low paying job. Although I'll be the first to admit that a college degree is no guarantee of a fantastic job, there are NO guarantees in life. But in not having a college education, the odds are stacked against you.
High schools have kept up with the changing world by offering advanced placement courses to qualified students. IMO, by banning college education, the WTS is going to create a generation of kids who will be in much more dire straits in 40 years than their counterparts are today. With no education, possibly no social security.... what are these kids going to do when they reach retirement age?? Oh... I forgot... Armageddon is just around the corner.
GGG
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daystar
sir82
You must have gone to a different HS than I did.
It was a public high school, but I was taking Advanced Placement courses, newly available, that counted as college credit. And we were not sent home with any notes pinned to our shirts. We were treated as adults.
Now, critical thinking skills... That is a class I'd like to see become a required course for all American high school students.
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garybuss
Brooklyn wants the Witnesses to be like Eve who hung out with naked men who, you might say, hung out with talking snakes.