[ ] Make up a sport. Teach your family it, and enjoy it.
[ ] Write something on your own free will.
[ ] Make an original story, record it, and share the Story to inspire your family.
[ ] Direct a skit
[ ] Write a comedy, and make your family laugh.
[ ] choose and lead an activity in a family night.
[ ] Coordinate a big art project by leading your family
[ ] Make a multiple scene play.
[ ] teach like Christ. Maybe a parable
[ ] Lead a conversation. Shared from Google Keep
Friday, May 31, 2013
Lesson options for a child learning 2nd and 3rd stage of Erickson's psychosocial developmentalist Theory
Entertainment critic: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Today I have been running in a volunteer that I served with on my mission all day long, so we decided to go see the production "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." I have written critically of the BYUI theater department to my family and friends from my last experience, watching "The Poor of New York." Half way into the play my friend and I look at each other, wondering if we were bored, and we could not make it through the entire play. I have several arguments against the production. I don't think that it is the actors this time, but it is the play. I want this article to make clear that we can make better entertainment than a writer a few centuries ago. We need a new renaissance. This is my goal, and I have expressed it. I will now make my arguments.
1.) Entertainment should have integrity. Too many shows display no integrity at all.
2.) The audience of the play needed to obsessed with literature to enjoy the production.
3.) They were telling the same joke over and over. Playing with words is a shallow sense of humor with little appeal.
& I can probably think of more.
In the play, no one had any integrity. The second to last movie of Harry Potter was the same way. People barely hang on to morals, and there is no enlightenment. I watched Macbeth, and it was the same way. I likened the enlightenment of the production to having Satan be the instructor. He cares nothing for you, but he cares to destroy your life. There is no basis for trust. I should published my critic of my last play that I watched. I totally ripped it apart. We need to raise our standard of professionalism and integrity.
I could not enjoy it because I needed to be part of the play's audience to enjoy it. They fiddled around with words a lot as if they had no lives, but we needed to enjoy their nonsense like they were the center of the universe. I hope that Shakespeare did not write this, but it was written by someone obsessed with him because the nature of the author is shown in his work.
Their ideas had no merit to them. They rant on the about death, mocking it for minutes at the time. Playing with little things is not that funny. How can you enjoy someone that you can't trust? Everyone was mocking life as if life itself has no merit. I say that "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" has little merit in itself other than fiddling around with words. I want to raise the call for a higher of standard for professionalism in entertainment with morals and integrity. Some thing that we can relate to; not a bunch of people with no merit, trying to share their "wisdom" of what; nothing. Shakespeare is old. Our entertainment, passion, professions, and skill need to build on the centuries of learning. We need make a new renaissance of today. This is my goal.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
"Separation of Church & State:" a Root of Enmity Against Religion
There is an enmity in the world of politics against religion from the phrase "separation of church and state," saying that they should have no part in government. This is a false modern interpretation of the Constitution, when the original purpose was to have no state religion. As citizens of the United States of America, we have the right to vote according to our values, not being acted upon by the liberal movement. The religions around the world should respect their government.
Most religion are respectful of the rights of man, but there are some extremists that try to force their ways on government. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that the constitution is a blessing of God, and we are faithful to the government.
Most religion are respectful of the rights of man, but there are some extremists that try to force their ways on government. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that the constitution is a blessing of God, and we are faithful to the government.
The twelfth article of faith for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the flow."
In politics, there needs to be a two way tolerance. Religion tolerates the liberal movement, but the liberal movement has a weak tolerance towards the values of religion. Let us have respect for one another's beliefs.
For Time and all Eternity
The role of motherhood is being degraded and underrated continually, and I firmly belief that man and wife have needed roles in raising a child. I would not be who I am, if it would not have been for my mother. This talk is excellent. I recommend that you read it.
"This divine service of motherhood can be rendered only by mothers. It may not be passed to others. Nurses cannot do it; public nurseries cannot do it; hired help cannot do it - only mother, aided as much as may be by the loving hands of father, brothers, and sisters, can give the full needed measure of watchful care."
For Time and All Eternity
BOYD K. PACKER
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Dear brethren and sisters, the scriptures and the teachings of the Apostles and prophets speak of us in premortal life as sons and daughters, spirit children of God. 1 Gender existed before, and did not begin at mortal birth. 2
In the great council in heaven, 3 God’s plan was presented: 4 the plan of salvation, 5 the plan of redemption, 6 the great plan of happiness. 7 The plan provides for a proving; all must choose between good and evil. 8 His plan provides for a Redeemer, an atonement, the Resurrection, and, if we obey, our return to the presence of God.
The adversary rebelled and adopted a plan of his own. 9 Those who followed him were denied the right to a mortal body. 10 Our presence here confirms that we sanctioned our Father’s plan. 11
The single purpose of Lucifer is to oppose the great plan of happiness, to corrupt the purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. 12 The specters of heartbreak and guilt 13 follow him about. Only repentance can heal what he hurts.
The plan of happiness requires the righteous union of male and female, man and woman, husband and wife. 14 Doctrines teach us how to respond to the compelling natural impulses which too often dominate how we behave.
A body patterned after the image of God was created for Adam, 15 and he was introduced into the Garden. 16 At first, Adam was alone. He held the priesthood, 17 but alone, he could not fulfill the purposes of his creation. 18
No other man would do. Neither alone nor with other men could Adam progress. Nor could Eve with another woman. It was so then. It is so today.
Eve, an help meet, was created. Marriage was instituted, 19 for Adam was commanded to cleave unto his wife [not just to a woman] and “to none else.” 20
A choice, it might be said, was imposed upon Eve. 21 She should be praised for her decision. Then “Adam fell that men might be.” 22
Elder Orson F. Whitney described the Fall as having “a twofold direction—downward, yet forward. It brought man into the world and set his feet upon progression’s highway.” 23
God blessed Adam and Eve “and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply.” 24 And so the family was established.
There is nothing in the revelations which suggests that to be a man rather than to be a woman is preferred in the sight of God, or that He places a higher value on sons than on daughters.
All virtues listed in the scriptures—love, joy, peace, faith, godliness, charity—are shared by both men and women, 25 and the highest priesthood ordinance in mortality is given only to man and woman together. 26
After the Fall, natural law had far-reaching sovereignty over mortal birth. There are what President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., called “pranks” of nature, 27 which cause a variety of abnormalities, deficiencies, and deformities. However unfair they seem to man’s way of reasoning, they somehow suit the purposes of the Lord in the proving of mankind.
The following of every worthy instinct, the responding to every righteous urge, the consummating of every exalting human relationship are provided for and approved in the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ and protected by commandments revealed to His church.
Except Adam and Eve by nature be different from one another, they could not multiply and fill the earth. 28 The complementing differences are the very key to the plan of happiness.
Some roles are best suited to the masculine nature and others to the feminine nature. Both the scriptures and the patterns of nature place man as the protector, the provider. 29
Those responsibilities of the priesthood, which have to do with the administration of the Church, of necessity function outside the home. By divine decree, they have been entrusted to men. It has been that way since the beginning, for the Lord revealed that “the order of this priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son. … This order was instituted in the days of Adam.” 30
A man who holds the priesthood does not have an advantage over a woman in qualifying for exaltation. The woman, by her very nature, is also co-creator with God and the primary nurturer of the children. Virtues and attributes upon which perfection and exaltation depend come naturally to a woman and are refined through marriage and motherhood.
The priesthood is conferred only upon worthy men in order to conform to our Father’s plan of happiness. With the laws of nature and the revealed word of God working in harmony, it simply works best that way.
The priesthood carries with it awesome responsibility. “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; by kindness, and pure knowledge.” 31
Should a man “exercise control or dominion or compulsion … in any degree of unrighteousness,” 32 he violates “the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood.” 33 Then “the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved.” 34 Unless he repents he will lose his blessings.
While the different roles of man and woman are set forth in exalted celestial declarations, they are best demonstrated in the most practical, ordinary, down-to-earth experiences of family life.
Recently I heard a speaker in sacrament meeting complain that he could not understand why his grandchildren always spoke of going to Grandma’s house, never to Grandpa’s house. I solved that great mystery for him: Grandpas don’t bake pies!
Natural and spiritual laws which govern life were instituted from before the foundation of the world. 35 They are eternal, as are the consequences for either obeying or disobeying them. They are not based on social or political considerations. They cannot be changed. No pressure, no protest, no legislation can alter them.
Years ago I supervised the Indian seminaries. On a visit to a school at Albuquerque, the principal told me of an incident that happened in a first grade class.
During a lesson, a kitten wandered into the room and distracted the youngsters. It was brought to the front of the room so all could see it.
One youngster asked: “Is it a boy kitty or a girl kitty?”
The teacher, unprepared for that discussion, said, “It doesn’t matter; it’s just a kitten.”
But the children persisted, and one little boy said, “I know how we can tell if it is a boy kitty or a girl kitty.”
The teacher, cornered, said, “All right, you tell us how we can tell if it is a boy kitty or a girl kitty.”
The boy answered, “We can vote on it!”
Some things cannot be changed. Doctrine cannot be changed.
“Principles which have been revealed,” President Wilford Woodruff said, “for the salvation and exaltation of the children of men … are principles you cannot annihilate. They are principles that no combination of men [or women] can destroy. They are principles that can never die. … They are beyond the reach of man to handle or to destroy. … It is not in the power of the whole world put together to destroy those principles. … Not one jot or tittle of these principles will ever be destroyed.” 36
During World War II, men were called away to fight. In the emergency, wives and mothers worldwide were drawn into the workforce as never before. The most devastating effect of the war was on the family. It lingers to this generation.
In the October 1942 general conference, the First Presidency delivered a message to “the Saints in every land and clime,” in which they said, “By virtue of the authority in us vested as the First Presidency of the Church, we warn our people.”
And they said: “Amongst His earliest commands to Adam and Eve, the Lord said: ‘Multiply and replenish the earth.’ He has repeated that command in our day. He has again revealed in this, the last dispensation, the principle of the eternity of the marriage covenant. …
“The Lord has told us that it is the duty of every husband and wife to obey the command given to Adam to multiply and replenish the earth, so that the legions of choice spirits waiting for their tabernacles of flesh may come here and move forward under God’s great design to become perfect souls, for without these fleshly tabernacles they cannot progress to their God-planned destiny. Thus, every husband and wife should become a father and mother in Israel to children born under the holy, eternal covenant.
“By bringing these choice spirits to earth, each father and each mother assume towards the tabernacled spirit and towards the Lord Himself by having taken advantage of the opportunity He offered, an obligation of the most sacred kind, because the fate of that spirit in the eternities to come, the blessings or punishments which shall await it in the hereafter, depend, in great part, upon the care, the teachings, the training which the parents shall give to that spirit.
“No parent can escape that obligation and that responsibility, and for the proper meeting thereof, the Lord will hold us to a strict accountability. No loftier duty than this can be assumed by mortals.”
Speaking of mothers, the First Presidency said: “Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind, and spirit, of those who kept their first estate and who come to this earth for their second estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’ (Abr. 3:25) To lead them to keep their second estate is the work of motherhood, and ‘they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.’ (op. cit.) [Abr. 3:26]
“This divine service of motherhood can be rendered only by mothers. It may not be passed to others. Nurses cannot do it; public nurseries cannot do it; hired help cannot do it—only mother, aided as much as may be by the loving hands of father, brothers, and sisters, can give the full needed measure of watchful care.”
The First Presidency counseled that “the mother who entrusts her child to the care of others, that she may do non-motherly work, whether for gold, for fame, or for civic service, should remember that ‘a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.’ (Prov. 29:15) In our day the Lord has said that unless parents teach their children the doctrines of the Church ‘the sin be upon the heads of the parents.’ (D&C 68:25)
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” 37
That message and warning from the First Presidency is needed more, not less, today than when it was given. And no voice from any organization of the Church on any level of administration equals that of the First Presidency. 38
Any soul who by nature or circumstance is not afforded the blessing of marriage and parenthood, or who innocently must act alone in rearing children, working to support them, will not be denied in the eternities any blessing—provided they keep the commandments. 39 As President Lorenzo Snow promised: “That is sure and positive.” 40
I close with a parable.
Once a man received as his inheritance two keys. The first key, he was told, would open a vault which he must protect at all cost. The second key was to a safe within the vault which contained a priceless treasure. He was to open this safe and freely use the precious things which were stored therein. He was warned that many would seek to rob him of his inheritance. He was promised that if he used the treasure worthily, it would be replenished and never be diminished, not in all eternity. He would be tested. If he used it to benefit others, his own blessings and joy would increase.
The man went alone to the vault. His first key opened the door. He tried to unlock the treasure with the other key, but he could not, for there were two locks on the safe. His key alone would not open it. No matter how he tried, he could not open it. He was puzzled. He had been given the keys. He knew the treasure was rightfully his. He had obeyed instructions, but he could not open the safe.
In due time, there came a woman into the vault. She, too, held a key. It was noticeably different from the key he held. Her key fit the other lock. It humbled him to learn that he could not obtain his rightful inheritance without her.
They made a covenant that together they would open the treasure and, as instructed, he would watch over the vault and protect it; she would watch over the treasure. She was not concerned that, as guardian of the vault, he held two keys, for his full purpose was to see that she was safe as she watched over that which was most precious to them both. Together they opened the safe and partook of their inheritance. They rejoiced for, as promised, it replenished itself.
With great joy they found that they could pass the treasure on to their children; each could receive a full measure, undiminished to the last generation.
Perhaps some few of their posterity would not find a companion who possessed the complementary key, or one worthy and willing to keep the covenants relating to the treasure. Nevertheless, if they kept the commandments, they would not be denied even the smallest blessing.
Because some tempted them to misuse their treasure, they were careful to teach their children about keys and covenants.
There came, in due time, among their posterity some few who were deceived or jealous or selfish because one was given two keys and another only one. “Why,” the selfish ones reasoned, “cannot the treasure be mine alone to use as I desire?”
Some tried to reshape the key they had been given to resemble the other key. Perhaps, they thought, it would then fit both locks. And so it was that the safe was closed to them. Their reshaped keys were useless, and their inheritance was lost.
Those who received the treasure with gratitude and obeyed the laws concerning it knew joy without bounds through time and all eternity.
I bear witness of our Father’s plan for happiness, and bear testimony in the name of Him who wrought the Atonement, that it might be, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
"This divine service of motherhood can be rendered only by mothers. It may not be passed to others. Nurses cannot do it; public nurseries cannot do it; hired help cannot do it - only mother, aided as much as may be by the loving hands of father, brothers, and sisters, can give the full needed measure of watchful care."
For Time and All Eternity
BOYD K. PACKER
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Dear brethren and sisters, the scriptures and the teachings of the Apostles and prophets speak of us in premortal life as sons and daughters, spirit children of God. 1 Gender existed before, and did not begin at mortal birth. 2
In the great council in heaven, 3 God’s plan was presented: 4 the plan of salvation, 5 the plan of redemption, 6 the great plan of happiness. 7 The plan provides for a proving; all must choose between good and evil. 8 His plan provides for a Redeemer, an atonement, the Resurrection, and, if we obey, our return to the presence of God.
The adversary rebelled and adopted a plan of his own. 9 Those who followed him were denied the right to a mortal body. 10 Our presence here confirms that we sanctioned our Father’s plan. 11
The single purpose of Lucifer is to oppose the great plan of happiness, to corrupt the purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. 12 The specters of heartbreak and guilt 13 follow him about. Only repentance can heal what he hurts.
The plan of happiness requires the righteous union of male and female, man and woman, husband and wife. 14 Doctrines teach us how to respond to the compelling natural impulses which too often dominate how we behave.
A body patterned after the image of God was created for Adam, 15 and he was introduced into the Garden. 16 At first, Adam was alone. He held the priesthood, 17 but alone, he could not fulfill the purposes of his creation. 18
No other man would do. Neither alone nor with other men could Adam progress. Nor could Eve with another woman. It was so then. It is so today.
Eve, an help meet, was created. Marriage was instituted, 19 for Adam was commanded to cleave unto his wife [not just to a woman] and “to none else.” 20
A choice, it might be said, was imposed upon Eve. 21 She should be praised for her decision. Then “Adam fell that men might be.” 22
Elder Orson F. Whitney described the Fall as having “a twofold direction—downward, yet forward. It brought man into the world and set his feet upon progression’s highway.” 23
God blessed Adam and Eve “and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply.” 24 And so the family was established.
There is nothing in the revelations which suggests that to be a man rather than to be a woman is preferred in the sight of God, or that He places a higher value on sons than on daughters.
All virtues listed in the scriptures—love, joy, peace, faith, godliness, charity—are shared by both men and women, 25 and the highest priesthood ordinance in mortality is given only to man and woman together. 26
After the Fall, natural law had far-reaching sovereignty over mortal birth. There are what President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., called “pranks” of nature, 27 which cause a variety of abnormalities, deficiencies, and deformities. However unfair they seem to man’s way of reasoning, they somehow suit the purposes of the Lord in the proving of mankind.
The following of every worthy instinct, the responding to every righteous urge, the consummating of every exalting human relationship are provided for and approved in the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ and protected by commandments revealed to His church.
Except Adam and Eve by nature be different from one another, they could not multiply and fill the earth. 28 The complementing differences are the very key to the plan of happiness.
Some roles are best suited to the masculine nature and others to the feminine nature. Both the scriptures and the patterns of nature place man as the protector, the provider. 29
Those responsibilities of the priesthood, which have to do with the administration of the Church, of necessity function outside the home. By divine decree, they have been entrusted to men. It has been that way since the beginning, for the Lord revealed that “the order of this priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son. … This order was instituted in the days of Adam.” 30
A man who holds the priesthood does not have an advantage over a woman in qualifying for exaltation. The woman, by her very nature, is also co-creator with God and the primary nurturer of the children. Virtues and attributes upon which perfection and exaltation depend come naturally to a woman and are refined through marriage and motherhood.
The priesthood is conferred only upon worthy men in order to conform to our Father’s plan of happiness. With the laws of nature and the revealed word of God working in harmony, it simply works best that way.
The priesthood carries with it awesome responsibility. “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; by kindness, and pure knowledge.” 31
Should a man “exercise control or dominion or compulsion … in any degree of unrighteousness,” 32 he violates “the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood.” 33 Then “the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved.” 34 Unless he repents he will lose his blessings.
While the different roles of man and woman are set forth in exalted celestial declarations, they are best demonstrated in the most practical, ordinary, down-to-earth experiences of family life.
Recently I heard a speaker in sacrament meeting complain that he could not understand why his grandchildren always spoke of going to Grandma’s house, never to Grandpa’s house. I solved that great mystery for him: Grandpas don’t bake pies!
Natural and spiritual laws which govern life were instituted from before the foundation of the world. 35 They are eternal, as are the consequences for either obeying or disobeying them. They are not based on social or political considerations. They cannot be changed. No pressure, no protest, no legislation can alter them.
Years ago I supervised the Indian seminaries. On a visit to a school at Albuquerque, the principal told me of an incident that happened in a first grade class.
During a lesson, a kitten wandered into the room and distracted the youngsters. It was brought to the front of the room so all could see it.
One youngster asked: “Is it a boy kitty or a girl kitty?”
The teacher, unprepared for that discussion, said, “It doesn’t matter; it’s just a kitten.”
But the children persisted, and one little boy said, “I know how we can tell if it is a boy kitty or a girl kitty.”
The teacher, cornered, said, “All right, you tell us how we can tell if it is a boy kitty or a girl kitty.”
The boy answered, “We can vote on it!”
Some things cannot be changed. Doctrine cannot be changed.
“Principles which have been revealed,” President Wilford Woodruff said, “for the salvation and exaltation of the children of men … are principles you cannot annihilate. They are principles that no combination of men [or women] can destroy. They are principles that can never die. … They are beyond the reach of man to handle or to destroy. … It is not in the power of the whole world put together to destroy those principles. … Not one jot or tittle of these principles will ever be destroyed.” 36
During World War II, men were called away to fight. In the emergency, wives and mothers worldwide were drawn into the workforce as never before. The most devastating effect of the war was on the family. It lingers to this generation.
In the October 1942 general conference, the First Presidency delivered a message to “the Saints in every land and clime,” in which they said, “By virtue of the authority in us vested as the First Presidency of the Church, we warn our people.”
And they said: “Amongst His earliest commands to Adam and Eve, the Lord said: ‘Multiply and replenish the earth.’ He has repeated that command in our day. He has again revealed in this, the last dispensation, the principle of the eternity of the marriage covenant. …
“The Lord has told us that it is the duty of every husband and wife to obey the command given to Adam to multiply and replenish the earth, so that the legions of choice spirits waiting for their tabernacles of flesh may come here and move forward under God’s great design to become perfect souls, for without these fleshly tabernacles they cannot progress to their God-planned destiny. Thus, every husband and wife should become a father and mother in Israel to children born under the holy, eternal covenant.
“By bringing these choice spirits to earth, each father and each mother assume towards the tabernacled spirit and towards the Lord Himself by having taken advantage of the opportunity He offered, an obligation of the most sacred kind, because the fate of that spirit in the eternities to come, the blessings or punishments which shall await it in the hereafter, depend, in great part, upon the care, the teachings, the training which the parents shall give to that spirit.
“No parent can escape that obligation and that responsibility, and for the proper meeting thereof, the Lord will hold us to a strict accountability. No loftier duty than this can be assumed by mortals.”
Speaking of mothers, the First Presidency said: “Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind, and spirit, of those who kept their first estate and who come to this earth for their second estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’ (Abr. 3:25) To lead them to keep their second estate is the work of motherhood, and ‘they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.’ (op. cit.) [Abr. 3:26]
“This divine service of motherhood can be rendered only by mothers. It may not be passed to others. Nurses cannot do it; public nurseries cannot do it; hired help cannot do it—only mother, aided as much as may be by the loving hands of father, brothers, and sisters, can give the full needed measure of watchful care.”
The First Presidency counseled that “the mother who entrusts her child to the care of others, that she may do non-motherly work, whether for gold, for fame, or for civic service, should remember that ‘a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.’ (Prov. 29:15) In our day the Lord has said that unless parents teach their children the doctrines of the Church ‘the sin be upon the heads of the parents.’ (D&C 68:25)
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” 37
That message and warning from the First Presidency is needed more, not less, today than when it was given. And no voice from any organization of the Church on any level of administration equals that of the First Presidency. 38
Any soul who by nature or circumstance is not afforded the blessing of marriage and parenthood, or who innocently must act alone in rearing children, working to support them, will not be denied in the eternities any blessing—provided they keep the commandments. 39 As President Lorenzo Snow promised: “That is sure and positive.” 40
I close with a parable.
Once a man received as his inheritance two keys. The first key, he was told, would open a vault which he must protect at all cost. The second key was to a safe within the vault which contained a priceless treasure. He was to open this safe and freely use the precious things which were stored therein. He was warned that many would seek to rob him of his inheritance. He was promised that if he used the treasure worthily, it would be replenished and never be diminished, not in all eternity. He would be tested. If he used it to benefit others, his own blessings and joy would increase.
The man went alone to the vault. His first key opened the door. He tried to unlock the treasure with the other key, but he could not, for there were two locks on the safe. His key alone would not open it. No matter how he tried, he could not open it. He was puzzled. He had been given the keys. He knew the treasure was rightfully his. He had obeyed instructions, but he could not open the safe.
In due time, there came a woman into the vault. She, too, held a key. It was noticeably different from the key he held. Her key fit the other lock. It humbled him to learn that he could not obtain his rightful inheritance without her.
They made a covenant that together they would open the treasure and, as instructed, he would watch over the vault and protect it; she would watch over the treasure. She was not concerned that, as guardian of the vault, he held two keys, for his full purpose was to see that she was safe as she watched over that which was most precious to them both. Together they opened the safe and partook of their inheritance. They rejoiced for, as promised, it replenished itself.
With great joy they found that they could pass the treasure on to their children; each could receive a full measure, undiminished to the last generation.
Perhaps some few of their posterity would not find a companion who possessed the complementary key, or one worthy and willing to keep the covenants relating to the treasure. Nevertheless, if they kept the commandments, they would not be denied even the smallest blessing.
Because some tempted them to misuse their treasure, they were careful to teach their children about keys and covenants.
There came, in due time, among their posterity some few who were deceived or jealous or selfish because one was given two keys and another only one. “Why,” the selfish ones reasoned, “cannot the treasure be mine alone to use as I desire?”
Some tried to reshape the key they had been given to resemble the other key. Perhaps, they thought, it would then fit both locks. And so it was that the safe was closed to them. Their reshaped keys were useless, and their inheritance was lost.
Those who received the treasure with gratitude and obeyed the laws concerning it knew joy without bounds through time and all eternity.
I bear witness of our Father’s plan for happiness, and bear testimony in the name of Him who wrought the Atonement, that it might be, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
The Three Wolves of Marriage
In this talk by Elder Hafen talks about three wolves that each marriage has to face.
Marrying and raising children can yield the most valuable religious experiences of their lives. Covenant marriage requires a total leap of faith: they must keep their covenants without knowing what risks that may require of them. They must surrender unconditionally, obeying God and sacrificing for each other. Then they will discover what Alma called "incomprehensible joy."
Covenant Marriage
BRUCE C. HAFEN
Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/10/covenant-marriage?lang=eng
Three summers ago, I watched a new bride and groom, Tracy and Tom, emerge from a sacred temple. They laughed and held hands as family and friends gathered to take pictures. I saw happiness and promise in their faces as they greeted their reception guests, who celebrated publicly the creation of a new family. I wondered that night how long it would be until these two faced the opposition that tests every marriage. Only then would they discover whether their marriage was based on a contract or a covenant.
Another bride sighed blissfully on her wedding day, “Mom, I’m at the end of all my troubles!” “Yes,” replied her mother, “but at which end?” When troubles come, the parties to a contractual marriage seek happiness by walking away. They marry to obtain benefits and will stay only as long as they’re receiving what they bargained for. But when troubles come to a covenant marriage, the husband and wife work them through. They marry to give and to grow, bound by covenants to each other, to the community, and to God. Contract companions each give 50 percent; covenant companions each give 100 percent. 1
Marriage is by nature a covenant, not just a private contract one may cancel at will. Jesus taught about contractual attitudes when he described the “hireling,” who performs his conditional promise of care only when he receives something in return. When the hireling “seeth the wolf coming,” he “leaveth the sheep, and fleeth … because he … careth not for the sheep.” By contrast, the Savior said, “I am the good shepherd, … and I lay down my life for the sheep.” 2 Many people today marry as hirelings. And when the wolf comes, they flee. This idea is wrong. It curses the earth, turning parents’ hearts away from their children and from each other. 3
Before their marriage, Tom and Tracy received an eternal perspective on covenants and wolves. They learned through the story of Adam and Eve about life’s purpose and how to return to God’s presence through obedience and the Atonement. Christ’s life is the story of giving the Atonement. The life of Adam and Eve is the story of receiving the Atonement, which empowered them to overcome their separation from God and all opposition until they were eternally “at one,” with the Lord, and with each other.
Without the Fall, Lehi taught, Adam and Eve would never have known opposition. And “they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” 4 Astute parents will see a little connection here—no children, no misery! But left in the garden, they could never know joy. So the Lord taught them they would live and bear children in sorrow, sweat, and thorns.
Still, the ground was cursed for their sake: 5 their path of affliction also led to the joy of both redemption and comprehension. 6 That is why the husband and wife in a covenant marriage sustain and lift each other when the wolf comes. If Tom and Tracy had understood all this, perhaps they would have walked more slowly from the gardenlike temple grounds, like Adam and Eve, arm in arm, into a harsh and lonely world.
And yet—marrying and raising children can yield the most valuable religious experiences of their lives. Covenant marriage requires a total leap of faith: they must keep their covenants without knowing what risks that may require of them. They must surrender unconditionally, obeying God and sacrificing for each other. Then they will discover what Alma called “incomprehensible joy.” 7
Of course, some have no opportunity to marry. And some divorces are unavoidable. But the Lord will ultimately compensate those faithful ones who are denied mortal fulfillment.
Every marriage is tested repeatedly by three kinds of wolves. The first wolf is natural adversity. After asking God for years to give them a first child, David and Fran had a baby with a serious heart defect. Following a three-week struggle, they buried their newborn son. Like Adam and Eve before them, they mourned together, brokenhearted, in faith before the Lord. 8
Second, the wolf of their own imperfections will test them. One woman told me through her tears how her husband’s constant criticism finally destroyed not only their marriage but her entire sense of self-worth. He first complained about her cooking and housecleaning, and then about how she used her time, how she talked, looked, and reasoned. Eventually she felt utterly inept and dysfunctional. My heart ached for her, and for him.
Contrast her with a young woman who had little self-confidence when she first married. Then her husband found so much to praise in her that she gradually began to believe she was a good person and that her opinions mattered. His belief in her rekindled her innate self-worth.
The third wolf is the excessive individualism that has spawned today’s contractual attitudes. A seven-year-old girl came home from school crying, “Mom, don’t I belong to you? Our teacher said today that nobody belongs to anybody—children don’t belong to parents, husbands don’t belong to wives. I am yours, aren’t I, Mom?” Her mother held her close and whispered, “Of course you’re mine—and I’m yours, too.” Surely marriage partners must respect one another’s individual identity, and family members are neither slaves nor inanimate objects. But this teacher’s fear, shared today by many, is that the bonds of kinship and marriage are not valuable ties that bind, but are, instead, sheer bondage. Ours is the age of the waning of belonging.
The adversary has long cultivated this overemphasis on personal autonomy, and now he feverishly exploits it. Our deepest God-given instinct is to run to the arms of those who need us and sustain us. But he drives us away from each other today with wedges of distrust and suspicion. He exaggerates the need for having space, getting out, and being left alone. Some people believe him—and then they wonder why they feel left alone. And despite admirable exceptions, children in America’s growing number of single-parent families are clearly more at risk than children in two-parent families. 9 Further, the rates of divorce and births outside marriage are now so high that we may be witnessing “the collapse of marriage.” 10
Many people even wonder these days what marriage is. Should we prohibit same-sex marriage? Should we make divorce more difficult to obtain? Some say these questions are not society’s business, because marriage is a private contract. But as the modern prophets recently proclaimed, “marriage … is ordained of God.” 11 Even secular marriage was historically a three-party covenant among a man, a woman, and the state. Society has a huge interest in the outcome and the offspring of every marriage. So the public nature of marriage distinguishes it from all other relationships. Guests come to weddings because, as Wendell Berry said, sweethearts “say their vows to the community as much as to one another,” giving themselves not only to each other, but also to the common good “as no contract could ever join them.” 12
When we observe the covenants we make at the altar of sacrifice, we discover hidden reservoirs of strength. I once said in exasperation to my wife, Marie, “The Lord placed Adam and Eve on the earth as full-grown people. Why couldn’t he have done that with this boy of ours, the one with the freckles and the unruly hair?” She replied, “The Lord gave us that child to make Christians out of us.”
One night Marie exhausted herself for hours encouraging that child to finish a school assignment to build his own diorama of a Native American village on a cookie sheet. It was a test no hireling would have endured. At first he fought her efforts, but by bedtime, I saw him lay “his” diorama proudly on a counter. He started for his bed, then turned around, raced back across the room, and hugged his mother, grinning with his fourth-grade teeth. Later I asked Marie in complete awe, “How did you do it?” She said, “I just made up my mind that I couldn’t leave him, no matter what.” Then she added, “I didn’t know I had it in me.” She discovered deep, internal wellsprings of compassion because the bonds of her covenants gave her strength to lay down her life for her sheep, even an hour at a time.
Now I return to Tom and Tracy, who this year discovered wellsprings of their own. Their second baby threatened to come too early to live. They might have made a hireling’s convenient choice and gone on with their lives, letting a miscarriage occur. But because they tried to observe their covenants by sacrifice, 13 active, energetic Tracy lay almost motionless at home for five weeks, then in a hospital bed for another five. Tom was with her virtually every hour when he was not working or sleeping. They prayed their child to earth. Then the baby required 11 more weeks in the hospital. But she is here, and she is theirs.
One night as Tracy waited patiently upon the Lord in the hospital, she sensed that perhaps her willingness to sacrifice herself for her baby was in some small way like the Good Shepherd’s sacrifice for her. She said, “I had expected that trying to give so much would be really difficult, but somehow this felt more like a privilege.” As many other parents in Zion have done, she and Tom gave their hearts to God by giving them to their child. In the process, they learned that theirs is a covenant marriage, one that binds them to each other and to the Lord.
May we restore the concept of marriage as a covenant, even the new and everlasting covenant of marriage. 14 And when the wolf comes, may we be as shepherds, not hirelings, willing to lay down our lives, a day at a time, for the sheep of our covenant. Then, like Adam and Eve, we will have joy. 15 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Marrying and raising children can yield the most valuable religious experiences of their lives. Covenant marriage requires a total leap of faith: they must keep their covenants without knowing what risks that may require of them. They must surrender unconditionally, obeying God and sacrificing for each other. Then they will discover what Alma called "incomprehensible joy."
Covenant Marriage
BRUCE C. HAFEN
Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/10/covenant-marriage?lang=eng
Three summers ago, I watched a new bride and groom, Tracy and Tom, emerge from a sacred temple. They laughed and held hands as family and friends gathered to take pictures. I saw happiness and promise in their faces as they greeted their reception guests, who celebrated publicly the creation of a new family. I wondered that night how long it would be until these two faced the opposition that tests every marriage. Only then would they discover whether their marriage was based on a contract or a covenant.
Another bride sighed blissfully on her wedding day, “Mom, I’m at the end of all my troubles!” “Yes,” replied her mother, “but at which end?” When troubles come, the parties to a contractual marriage seek happiness by walking away. They marry to obtain benefits and will stay only as long as they’re receiving what they bargained for. But when troubles come to a covenant marriage, the husband and wife work them through. They marry to give and to grow, bound by covenants to each other, to the community, and to God. Contract companions each give 50 percent; covenant companions each give 100 percent. 1
Marriage is by nature a covenant, not just a private contract one may cancel at will. Jesus taught about contractual attitudes when he described the “hireling,” who performs his conditional promise of care only when he receives something in return. When the hireling “seeth the wolf coming,” he “leaveth the sheep, and fleeth … because he … careth not for the sheep.” By contrast, the Savior said, “I am the good shepherd, … and I lay down my life for the sheep.” 2 Many people today marry as hirelings. And when the wolf comes, they flee. This idea is wrong. It curses the earth, turning parents’ hearts away from their children and from each other. 3
Before their marriage, Tom and Tracy received an eternal perspective on covenants and wolves. They learned through the story of Adam and Eve about life’s purpose and how to return to God’s presence through obedience and the Atonement. Christ’s life is the story of giving the Atonement. The life of Adam and Eve is the story of receiving the Atonement, which empowered them to overcome their separation from God and all opposition until they were eternally “at one,” with the Lord, and with each other.
Without the Fall, Lehi taught, Adam and Eve would never have known opposition. And “they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.” 4 Astute parents will see a little connection here—no children, no misery! But left in the garden, they could never know joy. So the Lord taught them they would live and bear children in sorrow, sweat, and thorns.
Still, the ground was cursed for their sake: 5 their path of affliction also led to the joy of both redemption and comprehension. 6 That is why the husband and wife in a covenant marriage sustain and lift each other when the wolf comes. If Tom and Tracy had understood all this, perhaps they would have walked more slowly from the gardenlike temple grounds, like Adam and Eve, arm in arm, into a harsh and lonely world.
And yet—marrying and raising children can yield the most valuable religious experiences of their lives. Covenant marriage requires a total leap of faith: they must keep their covenants without knowing what risks that may require of them. They must surrender unconditionally, obeying God and sacrificing for each other. Then they will discover what Alma called “incomprehensible joy.” 7
Of course, some have no opportunity to marry. And some divorces are unavoidable. But the Lord will ultimately compensate those faithful ones who are denied mortal fulfillment.
Every marriage is tested repeatedly by three kinds of wolves. The first wolf is natural adversity. After asking God for years to give them a first child, David and Fran had a baby with a serious heart defect. Following a three-week struggle, they buried their newborn son. Like Adam and Eve before them, they mourned together, brokenhearted, in faith before the Lord. 8
Second, the wolf of their own imperfections will test them. One woman told me through her tears how her husband’s constant criticism finally destroyed not only their marriage but her entire sense of self-worth. He first complained about her cooking and housecleaning, and then about how she used her time, how she talked, looked, and reasoned. Eventually she felt utterly inept and dysfunctional. My heart ached for her, and for him.
Contrast her with a young woman who had little self-confidence when she first married. Then her husband found so much to praise in her that she gradually began to believe she was a good person and that her opinions mattered. His belief in her rekindled her innate self-worth.
The third wolf is the excessive individualism that has spawned today’s contractual attitudes. A seven-year-old girl came home from school crying, “Mom, don’t I belong to you? Our teacher said today that nobody belongs to anybody—children don’t belong to parents, husbands don’t belong to wives. I am yours, aren’t I, Mom?” Her mother held her close and whispered, “Of course you’re mine—and I’m yours, too.” Surely marriage partners must respect one another’s individual identity, and family members are neither slaves nor inanimate objects. But this teacher’s fear, shared today by many, is that the bonds of kinship and marriage are not valuable ties that bind, but are, instead, sheer bondage. Ours is the age of the waning of belonging.
The adversary has long cultivated this overemphasis on personal autonomy, and now he feverishly exploits it. Our deepest God-given instinct is to run to the arms of those who need us and sustain us. But he drives us away from each other today with wedges of distrust and suspicion. He exaggerates the need for having space, getting out, and being left alone. Some people believe him—and then they wonder why they feel left alone. And despite admirable exceptions, children in America’s growing number of single-parent families are clearly more at risk than children in two-parent families. 9 Further, the rates of divorce and births outside marriage are now so high that we may be witnessing “the collapse of marriage.” 10
Many people even wonder these days what marriage is. Should we prohibit same-sex marriage? Should we make divorce more difficult to obtain? Some say these questions are not society’s business, because marriage is a private contract. But as the modern prophets recently proclaimed, “marriage … is ordained of God.” 11 Even secular marriage was historically a three-party covenant among a man, a woman, and the state. Society has a huge interest in the outcome and the offspring of every marriage. So the public nature of marriage distinguishes it from all other relationships. Guests come to weddings because, as Wendell Berry said, sweethearts “say their vows to the community as much as to one another,” giving themselves not only to each other, but also to the common good “as no contract could ever join them.” 12
When we observe the covenants we make at the altar of sacrifice, we discover hidden reservoirs of strength. I once said in exasperation to my wife, Marie, “The Lord placed Adam and Eve on the earth as full-grown people. Why couldn’t he have done that with this boy of ours, the one with the freckles and the unruly hair?” She replied, “The Lord gave us that child to make Christians out of us.”
One night Marie exhausted herself for hours encouraging that child to finish a school assignment to build his own diorama of a Native American village on a cookie sheet. It was a test no hireling would have endured. At first he fought her efforts, but by bedtime, I saw him lay “his” diorama proudly on a counter. He started for his bed, then turned around, raced back across the room, and hugged his mother, grinning with his fourth-grade teeth. Later I asked Marie in complete awe, “How did you do it?” She said, “I just made up my mind that I couldn’t leave him, no matter what.” Then she added, “I didn’t know I had it in me.” She discovered deep, internal wellsprings of compassion because the bonds of her covenants gave her strength to lay down her life for her sheep, even an hour at a time.
Now I return to Tom and Tracy, who this year discovered wellsprings of their own. Their second baby threatened to come too early to live. They might have made a hireling’s convenient choice and gone on with their lives, letting a miscarriage occur. But because they tried to observe their covenants by sacrifice, 13 active, energetic Tracy lay almost motionless at home for five weeks, then in a hospital bed for another five. Tom was with her virtually every hour when he was not working or sleeping. They prayed their child to earth. Then the baby required 11 more weeks in the hospital. But she is here, and she is theirs.
One night as Tracy waited patiently upon the Lord in the hospital, she sensed that perhaps her willingness to sacrifice herself for her baby was in some small way like the Good Shepherd’s sacrifice for her. She said, “I had expected that trying to give so much would be really difficult, but somehow this felt more like a privilege.” As many other parents in Zion have done, she and Tom gave their hearts to God by giving them to their child. In the process, they learned that theirs is a covenant marriage, one that binds them to each other and to the Lord.
May we restore the concept of marriage as a covenant, even the new and everlasting covenant of marriage. 14 And when the wolf comes, may we be as shepherds, not hirelings, willing to lay down our lives, a day at a time, for the sheep of our covenant. Then, like Adam and Eve, we will have joy. 15 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Evaluating essential teaching skills
These are my notes from a study of teaching skills.
Drew a line, a circle, and a line crossed several times
Flat worms
Round worms
Segmented worms
Symmetry
A sponge is a symmetrical. There is not uniform shape to a sponge an a-symmetric
Radial symmetry
The teacher has developed a great lesson plan, and his questioning and teaching skills were especial. The success to retrieve the lessons of the class was noticeable.
The skill that was impressive to me was the ability to have the children relate to the concept taught visually. He used it as a powerful tool to aid retention, drawing the shapes of the three phylum, and having them look outside, and ponder who is the real gardener.
CMAPs
CMAP is a free program that let you organize your ideas, linking them together.
http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
Here are my examples of CMAPs.
I have two main ones.
my second class is focused on Evaluating essential teaching skills and espousing them. There are several given, and I have created CMAPS to learn them.
My Seventh Upload of my Education Psychology CMap.
At Brigham Young University: Idaho the education students are taught to teach recognizing the gender differences
http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
Here are my examples of CMAPs.
I have two main ones.
my second class is focused on Evaluating essential teaching skills and espousing them. There are several given, and I have created CMAPS to learn them.
My Seventh Upload of my Education Psychology CMap.
At Brigham Young University: Idaho the education students are taught to teach recognizing the gender differences
Family Foundation Unit 2 Revelation
On the 9th of May, I recorded impressions concerning the principles of scripture study and prayer. I noted to “set interview appointments with the Lord.” I see that this is important with prayer and scripture study, for they are both communing with God. We are counseled to pray morning and night recounting our day and holding ourselves accountable to our actions. I remember days when I would commune with my dad, and we would both lay on my twin bed to talk. This action of recounting our day and holding ourselves accountable is good for both genders as we spoke of today. I am learning in my Education psychology class that communication between boys and girls are approached differently, yet there needs to be universality in principles or interviews especially in the counsel of general conferences. I makes sense know how their needs to be a priesthood and a relief society session. Setting up an interview with God implementing the principles of recounting our day and holding ourselves accountable in not more appropriate for a specific gender. God the Father would love to hear the intense ponderings that girls have comforting and counseling them. The approach of a guy may be different than a girl, but a guy may recount their day, telling of their lives, goals, and plans for the following days.
Some of the principles concerning our communion with God in his written word that impressed me are plan and be deliberate, and search for patterns, study for time rather than set amount of literature, and take the scripture study seriously looking for revelations to apply in our actions and understanding. Often times quizzes test for understanding, but there are a higher order of thinking that schools seek to ingrain in our habits. According to Blooms taxonomy knowledge and facts to remember is the lowest of the six levels. Understanding, application, analyze, evaluation, and creation are the other five in ascending from the lowest to the highest understood order of mental processes. In planning of deliberate approaches to the word of God, your interview with him will answer your soul’s necessities by the spirit. Setting apart time to ponder, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create will be more affective in our lives than casually snacking on the bread of life without feasting and digesting it, letting it strengthen our souls. I recall that this time set apart to pondering what we learned does not have to be long.
When reading “Marriage is Essential to his Eternal Plan” by Elder Bednar, the fruits of marriage was impressed on my mind. I set aside two quotes “By being married living by faith to follow the will of God we realize the depths of happiness that God the Father desires for his children;” secondly, “I had loved before, but I knew not why. But now I loved—with a pureness—an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. … In short, I could now love with the spirit and with the understanding also.” There is a purer live in marriage not only in the sanctity and sanctification of the Holy Spirit of Promise, but we live pure happiness in raising a family, obtaining a pure love for life, people, and kindred.
Learning the doctrine of family, gender, and alternative life styles has developed a greater understanding and conviction to be faithful to the true form of a family. Same-sex couples’ rights and the ‘human right’ of the liberal movement should abate. These movements are led by Satan as a dynamic attack against humanity, seeking to destroy the validity of man and wife. This is not only a political belief, but it is deep in the philosophy of man that everyone has the legal rights to love who they are attracted to and court to marry; therefore, these couples should be supported by the state for the equality and happiness of man. Legally, Satan is disqualifying the wisdom of religion making it illegal taking away the rights of people to worship, the freedom to and of religion, and the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We are far from this at this time, but Brother Butterfield, my teacher, mentioned a Catholic adoption agency or orphanage was shut down because they did not sustain the law to give children to Same-sex couples to raise the children, and they believe that this new culture is an adverse tradition to the progress of society. An example of the abating freedom of religion is that people may ask the bishops of my church to marry a same-sex couple. When we refuse, they may sue; then, we may withdraw from our right to marry the saints. There has been situations, when the government has tried to confiscate our property because the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not believe the new liberal laws set by man. Approving Same-sex marriage is a step forward in the fight against the freedom of religion. Satan is using the natural man, the spirit of entitlement, and several other evil tendencies such as over tolerance to fight against the stalwart ways of God, believing that there is only one true way to happiness. Man love to take the philosophies of man to apply them in society to take a partial stature of God, but their philosophies are false, believing that by the will of man anything is possible. All things can be made fair by the institutions of man, trusting their own wisdom and forsaking the wisdom of God. We need to return to virtue, integrity, and chastity.
Some of the principles concerning our communion with God in his written word that impressed me are plan and be deliberate, and search for patterns, study for time rather than set amount of literature, and take the scripture study seriously looking for revelations to apply in our actions and understanding. Often times quizzes test for understanding, but there are a higher order of thinking that schools seek to ingrain in our habits. According to Blooms taxonomy knowledge and facts to remember is the lowest of the six levels. Understanding, application, analyze, evaluation, and creation are the other five in ascending from the lowest to the highest understood order of mental processes. In planning of deliberate approaches to the word of God, your interview with him will answer your soul’s necessities by the spirit. Setting apart time to ponder, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create will be more affective in our lives than casually snacking on the bread of life without feasting and digesting it, letting it strengthen our souls. I recall that this time set apart to pondering what we learned does not have to be long.
When reading “Marriage is Essential to his Eternal Plan” by Elder Bednar, the fruits of marriage was impressed on my mind. I set aside two quotes “By being married living by faith to follow the will of God we realize the depths of happiness that God the Father desires for his children;” secondly, “I had loved before, but I knew not why. But now I loved—with a pureness—an intensity of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. … In short, I could now love with the spirit and with the understanding also.” There is a purer live in marriage not only in the sanctity and sanctification of the Holy Spirit of Promise, but we live pure happiness in raising a family, obtaining a pure love for life, people, and kindred.
Learning the doctrine of family, gender, and alternative life styles has developed a greater understanding and conviction to be faithful to the true form of a family. Same-sex couples’ rights and the ‘human right’ of the liberal movement should abate. These movements are led by Satan as a dynamic attack against humanity, seeking to destroy the validity of man and wife. This is not only a political belief, but it is deep in the philosophy of man that everyone has the legal rights to love who they are attracted to and court to marry; therefore, these couples should be supported by the state for the equality and happiness of man. Legally, Satan is disqualifying the wisdom of religion making it illegal taking away the rights of people to worship, the freedom to and of religion, and the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We are far from this at this time, but Brother Butterfield, my teacher, mentioned a Catholic adoption agency or orphanage was shut down because they did not sustain the law to give children to Same-sex couples to raise the children, and they believe that this new culture is an adverse tradition to the progress of society. An example of the abating freedom of religion is that people may ask the bishops of my church to marry a same-sex couple. When we refuse, they may sue; then, we may withdraw from our right to marry the saints. There has been situations, when the government has tried to confiscate our property because the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not believe the new liberal laws set by man. Approving Same-sex marriage is a step forward in the fight against the freedom of religion. Satan is using the natural man, the spirit of entitlement, and several other evil tendencies such as over tolerance to fight against the stalwart ways of God, believing that there is only one true way to happiness. Man love to take the philosophies of man to apply them in society to take a partial stature of God, but their philosophies are false, believing that by the will of man anything is possible. All things can be made fair by the institutions of man, trusting their own wisdom and forsaking the wisdom of God. We need to return to virtue, integrity, and chastity.
My Argument Against Gay Rights
This morning I listened to the declaration of the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Same-sex Attraction in an interview setting with public affairs corespondents. It is very professional. The apostle of Jesus Christ, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a candidate to be a Supreme Court Justice, and Elder Wickman, also a law professor, are the interviewees. I invite all the read this article to hear from a special witness of Christ of learn of his teachings.
The article "The Divine Institution of Marriage" is the article the explains more completely my view on Gay rights. The blog post that I wrote is very secular, so I recommend that you read the more complete description.
My Argument Against Gay Rights
There are many fundamental cases that are against gay rights, but the argument against gay rights that I will make is simple. Yesterday I saw a Supreme Court Justice Kennedy say that the children of gay couples have a right to living within matrimony, suffering "immediate legal injury," and I replied “How can there be children of same-sex couples?” Since they cannot naturally have children, this should not be a valid argument; furthermore, they should not have the right raise children. This disqualifies them from equality.
There is no discrimination because a same-sex couple cannot do what a straight couple. It's not like racism, claiming a white person has greater intelligence than black people, when they are the same. Discrimination demands that the two are equal. A same-sex couple can never produce children naturally; therefore, they are not equal.
I propose that gay people are to have no rights as couples; therefore, they cannot raise children, adopt, or impregnate themselves. Any of these practices should be banned; furthermore, gay people should not have the right artificial impregnate themselves.
My argument is simple. Same-sex couples are not the same as straight couples because same-sex couples cannot have children; therefore, they have no rights to raise children, marriage, or benefits. There is no discrimination because the couples are not equal. I believe in that which is natural.
The article "The Divine Institution of Marriage" is the article the explains more completely my view on Gay rights. The blog post that I wrote is very secular, so I recommend that you read the more complete description.
My Argument Against Gay Rights
There are many fundamental cases that are against gay rights, but the argument against gay rights that I will make is simple. Yesterday I saw a Supreme Court Justice Kennedy say that the children of gay couples have a right to living within matrimony, suffering "immediate legal injury," and I replied “How can there be children of same-sex couples?” Since they cannot naturally have children, this should not be a valid argument; furthermore, they should not have the right raise children. This disqualifies them from equality.
There is no discrimination because a same-sex couple cannot do what a straight couple. It's not like racism, claiming a white person has greater intelligence than black people, when they are the same. Discrimination demands that the two are equal. A same-sex couple can never produce children naturally; therefore, they are not equal.
I propose that gay people are to have no rights as couples; therefore, they cannot raise children, adopt, or impregnate themselves. Any of these practices should be banned; furthermore, gay people should not have the right artificial impregnate themselves.
My argument is simple. Same-sex couples are not the same as straight couples because same-sex couples cannot have children; therefore, they have no rights to raise children, marriage, or benefits. There is no discrimination because the couples are not equal. I believe in that which is natural.
The Correct Way to Run
People do not often think of running correctly because it should be like walking, but most people have learned an odd philosophy about running. Running should be painlessly natural as walking, and it is. In middle school I remember writing an essay about how running is bad, and swimming is better. although, I am a big advocate of running for exercise now after running all throughout high school. I have learned how to explain the correct way to run simply, but the understanding only came from my experience on my running teams and a dear friend, researching it. He found a book explaining the pose method of running. I do not have any crazy name for the method because it is natural. The United States at least is getting this messed up.
There is a phase in the history of running that we are departing from. Over the past several years, 'more natural' running shoes has been coming out of the running shoe market. There is a philosophy with a few parts to it, which is not logistical. One of which is that our bodies are too weak to run without external support such as the following: ankle braces, stable shoes, and knee braces. The world often underestimates the human body. The human body can strong enough to handle running on any surface without these supports. Running shoes have little to do with running bad; however, it shows another part of the philosophy of running that is we are to land on the heel of our foot.
The simple explanation to how to show how to run correctly is comparing it to doing jump rope. I would encourage you to get up and 'jump rope-less.' I use to do that when I could not run outside. Jump as if you would do jump rope without the rope. You see and feel how you land on your feet. It is definitely not on your heel. It is springing. There is a spring all throughout our beautiful legs that absorbs the forces from the calf, to the quads and the hamstring, the largest combinations of muscles. It is natural and there is a natural momentum; however, if you purposely land on your heel.
Everything natural about the 'jump rope-less' is gone. You hit the ground and the momentum hit straight into the feet and is absorbed unnaturally. The forces cause pain. This is how shin splints are formed. Do 'jump rope-less' on your heels for a hour for a couple weeks or so and your shins will feel like it is being ripped of the bone because it is. This is the same thing with running. When you run and land on your heels, your momentum is not natural.
Another thing that one needs to learn is that, when the earth is to go backward, so the main thrust of your legs should be pushing us forward and the earth backward. Many people have an odd idea that we need to lengthen our stride by putting our feet further ahead of us. The way we are to push ourselves forward and the earth backward is by using our butt muscles. This make more sense as a mean to lengthen our stride. The hip flexor, the muscle that pulls up our leg for the top, is not that big compared to the butt. The thrust should be backward from the butt and not forward from the hip flexor.
One may wonder how this makes sense how can my feet push me forward from my butt, if my foot is landing in front of me. Well you need to realize that is not natural. The feet will soon naturally land beneath you or behind you. Do you see how that momentum will be better? Running is a controlled fall. Can you imagine how your momentum will be pushed if your feet pushes your forward from behind you? The momentum is much more efficient. The habit of having your feet land behind you is really difficult to obtain, but having your feet land closely below your torso. It allows looks funny to me when someone is running, and the butt is not pulling the leg back very far. The further back the leg and the more force behind you the longer the stride.
This is the way to run naturally and more easily. You don't need fancy supportive shoes with a big thing on your heel. I recommend running for twenty minutes a day until you strengthened your leg muscles sufficiently. Be warn. If you run this way, the correct way, your muscles will be extremely sore for the first week or so. It may be painful walking down stairs. You may feel like your grandparents walking down the stairs. That is why I recommend only twenty minutes a day at first week until you feel comfortable running longer. Consistency is important. I had a roommate that would workout a different part of his body each day of the week, and he was sore like the very beginning each week. Consistency will get the body to get over being sore, and build stronger muscles. You may be extremely sore because the average person at least in the United States has extremely weak legs. After my first season of cross country my legs like doubled the size. My calves, my thighs, and my butt were bigger. Don't be afraid of being sore. Think of it as a feeling of growing, becoming stronger, progressing. I promise you that it will only last for a week or so; then, you can run pain free. No shin splints.
Don't get frustrated if you get injuries. Just relax if you get a injury. Take a week or two off of running. Do something different. Often times the reason that we get injured is because of the shoes that we have. You may need new shoes.
I will review the simple steps that will lead you to run more naturally. Run by pushing yourself forward from your leg with the thrust going backward from your butt, landing of the part of the foot that you feel when you do the 'jump rope-less'. You can practice this by standing on one foot and see how it is to pull your leg back with your butt, seeing the form of running come naturally.
There is a phase in the history of running that we are departing from. Over the past several years, 'more natural' running shoes has been coming out of the running shoe market. There is a philosophy with a few parts to it, which is not logistical. One of which is that our bodies are too weak to run without external support such as the following: ankle braces, stable shoes, and knee braces. The world often underestimates the human body. The human body can strong enough to handle running on any surface without these supports. Running shoes have little to do with running bad; however, it shows another part of the philosophy of running that is we are to land on the heel of our foot.
The simple explanation to how to show how to run correctly is comparing it to doing jump rope. I would encourage you to get up and 'jump rope-less.' I use to do that when I could not run outside. Jump as if you would do jump rope without the rope. You see and feel how you land on your feet. It is definitely not on your heel. It is springing. There is a spring all throughout our beautiful legs that absorbs the forces from the calf, to the quads and the hamstring, the largest combinations of muscles. It is natural and there is a natural momentum; however, if you purposely land on your heel.
Everything natural about the 'jump rope-less' is gone. You hit the ground and the momentum hit straight into the feet and is absorbed unnaturally. The forces cause pain. This is how shin splints are formed. Do 'jump rope-less' on your heels for a hour for a couple weeks or so and your shins will feel like it is being ripped of the bone because it is. This is the same thing with running. When you run and land on your heels, your momentum is not natural.
Another thing that one needs to learn is that, when the earth is to go backward, so the main thrust of your legs should be pushing us forward and the earth backward. Many people have an odd idea that we need to lengthen our stride by putting our feet further ahead of us. The way we are to push ourselves forward and the earth backward is by using our butt muscles. This make more sense as a mean to lengthen our stride. The hip flexor, the muscle that pulls up our leg for the top, is not that big compared to the butt. The thrust should be backward from the butt and not forward from the hip flexor.
One may wonder how this makes sense how can my feet push me forward from my butt, if my foot is landing in front of me. Well you need to realize that is not natural. The feet will soon naturally land beneath you or behind you. Do you see how that momentum will be better? Running is a controlled fall. Can you imagine how your momentum will be pushed if your feet pushes your forward from behind you? The momentum is much more efficient. The habit of having your feet land behind you is really difficult to obtain, but having your feet land closely below your torso. It allows looks funny to me when someone is running, and the butt is not pulling the leg back very far. The further back the leg and the more force behind you the longer the stride.
This is the way to run naturally and more easily. You don't need fancy supportive shoes with a big thing on your heel. I recommend running for twenty minutes a day until you strengthened your leg muscles sufficiently. Be warn. If you run this way, the correct way, your muscles will be extremely sore for the first week or so. It may be painful walking down stairs. You may feel like your grandparents walking down the stairs. That is why I recommend only twenty minutes a day at first week until you feel comfortable running longer. Consistency is important. I had a roommate that would workout a different part of his body each day of the week, and he was sore like the very beginning each week. Consistency will get the body to get over being sore, and build stronger muscles. You may be extremely sore because the average person at least in the United States has extremely weak legs. After my first season of cross country my legs like doubled the size. My calves, my thighs, and my butt were bigger. Don't be afraid of being sore. Think of it as a feeling of growing, becoming stronger, progressing. I promise you that it will only last for a week or so; then, you can run pain free. No shin splints.
Don't get frustrated if you get injuries. Just relax if you get a injury. Take a week or two off of running. Do something different. Often times the reason that we get injured is because of the shoes that we have. You may need new shoes.
I will review the simple steps that will lead you to run more naturally. Run by pushing yourself forward from your leg with the thrust going backward from your butt, landing of the part of the foot that you feel when you do the 'jump rope-less'. You can practice this by standing on one foot and see how it is to pull your leg back with your butt, seeing the form of running come naturally.
I could write more, but this is probably enough. Good Night. :)
My Suggestion to Combat the Modern Expectation of Beauty
I suggest to combat the modern expectation of beauty is the developing of testimony of the gospel as Jeffery R. Holland explained. The internalizing of doctrines and the word of God will strengthen the self-esteem.
I am annoyed when I see people walk around church with "modest clothing," and it is not even modest. They say that it is hard to find modest clothing. I don't think girls should settle with the most modest of the immodest clothing. These cloths are commercially designed to make them look attractive. There are materials that become the new standard of good, but what is good? I am an observing person, and I am not fooled by the world's standard that is continually lowering itself. People need to be careful of what their clothing is saying about them. Whether it is loose, soft, tight, firm, people see the weakness of the soul, seeking to remain on the top of societies trends.
I often think to myself "All these lovely people, where do they all come from?" Every person is glorious and beautiful. I recommend that people stop watching tv, reading popular magazines, and following after their lusts. Women just love to adorn their lives with things that they lust after. How can we not see this natural man tendency as not sin, justifying it because it is common? Some people think that giving into these lustful situations are amusing. Thou shalt not covet is one of the ten commandments.
The Whole Assignment of My Initial Metaphor
My Initial Metaphor
Introduction
Brother Magleby is my teacher for a foundational Education Class. He wants us to have a metaphor for us to not lose vision of what an educator is all about. His personal metaphor goes along with a parable. He told of a couple of students of his. One takes principles of learning from his class in a form of logs, filling a storage shed until he beginning his career. In his career, he lights these logs, sharing the light with his students with a burning fire; however, he finds that he runs out of logs.
The second student takes the principles of his class in a form of a tree, bidding them to take care of it. The tree grows as he approaches his profession. He learns to make the skill of his profession to be fruitful. In his classes he shares his fruits and the seeds to his students, and they find that it is tasty and desirable.
Guess what his metaphor is. http://seektruth.wikispaces.
He encouraged it to be a subject of a singular idea. This activity should have deep roots in our life as his metaphor has, so I will be adding to this post continually often for a long period of time at least for this semester. There are four parts to the metaphor. There will be an explanation of the metaphor, an example of teach by the pattern of teaching by doctrines, principles, and tools. In addition to an example, we are to answer seven fundamental question. Apply the teaching of the class to the Initial Metaphor, we will list doctrines and principles that our motivations are based on.
I will explain the pattern of teaching now with doctrines, principles, and application. Doctrines come from the description of the Godhead, Plan of Salvation, and the Atonement of Christ, and Principles are the expectations that are rooted in the knowledge of the doctrine.
One doctrine of the Atonement of Christ is that our Savior has atoned for sins of the whole family of Adam; therefore, we need to make it possible that all people can receive the covenants and ordinances of the Gospel. The salvation of all man is people through Christ. This is why God has restored his temples on the Earth that these ordinances can be performed for all man. We have a lot of work to do to map out our genealogy in order to find and let our ancestors chose to receive the ordinances of Salvation such as Baptism of Immersion and the receiving of the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the Laying on of Hands. People cannot be saved; unless, they receive these covenants of Faith and repentance. Children, who have died before the age of accountability, are saved by the grace of the atonement. A tool to help you receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ is Mormon.org, a place where many resources are found of curious people.
Faith, covenants, genealogy work, temple work, and repentance are examples of principles. If you say that you need to be baptized to someone in order to be saved as the only reason to teach concerning this necessary ordinance. People may do it, but they may not know the deep that it has in the Gospel. The immersion is symbolic of work the perfect man and a member of the Godhead, the Only Begotten of our Father in Heaven. God the Father raised all of us spiritually before we are born in the flesh. Since we were spirits, we could not enjoy eternal life as God the Father, for he in an immortal man. He called all of us together when it was most opportune to initiate the beginning of the Plan of Salvation, where we will need to live in mortality. In this life we will need to learn how to live the Gospel by our choice and find grace by living up to the expectations of God. Jehovah of the Old Testament was chosen in this gathering to be our savior by dying for us and performing the atonement that we may be forgiven and pure as we were born. The Baptism of immersion is symbolic of this because we are bared in the water and pulled out a new creature as Christ took up his life again after his death. Jesus Christ, the mortal name in the New Testament of Jehovah, is the only person which can accomplish this because of his purity in perfection, and he was blessed to be born of, the mortal, Mary and Heavenly Father as his literal father. Our Savior can take up his life upon his own well because of this blessing. Baptism of Immersion in the water can also be significant because the water symbolic of a cleansing, a promise of living the covenant. This is an example of teaching the principle of Baptism.
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My Initial Metaphor is a Professional Long-distance Endurance Runner.
The Doctrine is represented by the person and his mental strength.
The Principle is represented by his work and preparation to be the greatest.
The Application or Tools that he has are represented by the workout plans and the varies means to accomplish his goals.
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The Pattern
An example of using the teaching pattern will be shown hereafter. I will teach the principle of Enduring to the End. The doctrine is the Godhead. God is one, and his nature is eternal never-changing and perfection; therefore, we need to be enduring as his nature to life his lifestyle, which is perfect. God gives us many tools to endure to the end such as faith building commandments from paying tithing, communing with God with prayer and feasting on his word, and consistently being faithful to keep our covenants by partaking of the sacrament and attending the temple. With these tools and principles we can come to know God and prepare to live in his kingdom, for only those that are pure as he is can be attempted into his kingdom and presence.
Doctrines and Principles that I espouse:
(Doctrines are written in Arial, and Principles are written in Times)
Godhead
Follow the pattern of teaching of Doctrine, Principles, and Application - Elder Bednar
Understand the philosophies of Man
· I learned in the philosophy section of the class that most people have different philosophies; therefore, we should respect that especially when working at an individual level. You can run an organization by your own personal philosophy.
The following philosophies were exposed in the class..
These are applied to education
Social Reconstructionism
Solving the social questions of the day.
Theodore Brameld (1904-1987)
Behaviorism/Essentialism
The belief that there are common knowledge that is morally essential, and the learning is structured
Read, write, speak, and compute clearly and logically.
hard work, respect for authority
become valuable members
William Bagley (1934), James D. Koerner (1959), H. G. Rickover (1959), Paul Copperman (1978), and Theodore Sizer (1985).
Perennialism
The belief of teaching the unchanging truths of the foundation of civilization.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1963) and Mortimer Adler
Progressivism
Focuses on the child’s being, pushing his limits by the practice of the scientific method.
John Dewey
Existentialism
Figuring out what is best for the individual
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
These are the general origin of the philosophy
Idealism
Teaches the eternal truths of life
Plato
Realism
Studies the world, by the scientific method
Aristotle
Neo Thomism
Combines the practice of realism with the learning of the truths of idealism
St. Thomas Aquinas
Pragmatism
Does not value the learning of theory, but trusts the learning of real life experience.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
Work at a school that follows the same philosophy as yours
Discover your philosophy
Understand the psychology of man
· I learned from psychology is fundamental to education, for it makes learning natural from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
View people as not limited in potential
· Another value that I learned from Pestalozzi is to practice the cultivation of the inner capacity of a person.
o Practice the principle of multiple intelligences.
Both Jean Anyon and Imani Perry noticed a different attitude in lower class schools and affluent schools.
This attitude gave a self-reliant learning and problem solving
Don’t limit the opportunities of students
Expose them to a broad amount of perspectives and opportunities of the world.
The growth of intelligence is at a set pace for each individual. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Respect and work with IEPs
PL 94-142
“Social interaction are the first to be developed before academic basics
Don’t make accommodations for children with learning disabilities a fight
Appreciate the presence of special needs children. Let the school thrive of them.
Seek to understand the perspective of parents and students”
Wisdom from a special educational administrator.
Heavenly Father
· Foster belonging
o John Dewey
· Develop a Fatherly nature
o Pestalozzi also taught that the family should be obligated to teach their children
o Respect child develop theories, understanding their needs and perspectives
Imani Perry felt like she did not belong at either public or private school because she felt off racially.
Understand the isolation that can be felt by youth.
Instruct in the zone of proximal development
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Continually Seek a proper vision of education
Jean Anyon saw that the vision of education is inadequate, so I want to have the best vision of education
Teach social skills
John Dewey
Jesus Christ
· Abide the Law (LDS Article of Faith number twelve)
· Be an example and on the leading edge of my skill
o According to Imai Perry, the teachers were on the leading edge of their field of study, expounding it unto their students
· Have Problem Solving attitude/Problem posing education
Paulo Freire’s
· Sacrifice and Consecrate my life to teach
· Stand in defense of truth and virtue
Child Protection Act of 2012
Seek Christ-like Attributes.
Faith in Jesus Christ
The enabling power of the belief of Christ
Hope
A nature of faith that blessings will be fulfilled
Charity and Love
Obtain the pure love of Christ
Virtue
A nature of purity
Knowledge
An attitude of development by acquiring knowledge
Patience
“the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious”
Humility
“willingness to submit to the will of the Lord and to give the Lord the honor for what is accomplished.”
Diligence
“steady, consistent, earnest, and energetic effort in doing the Lord’s work.”
Obedience
“keep the commandments willingly… and to follow the counsel of your leaders.”
Chapter 6: Christlike Attributes of Preach My Gospel
Have a relationship as a teacher that is instructive at a personal level.
The nature of the parables of Christ.
Modify teaching to the each individual
Idaho Standards of Initial Certification of Professional School Personnel
Have leadership skills
Classroom Motivation and Management skills
Collaborate with Colleagues, Parents, Members of the Community
Idaho Standards of Initial Certification of Professional School Personnel
Holy Ghost
· Be Professional
o Seek not to declare my word, but first seek to obtain my word, and then shall your tongue be loosed; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my word, yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men. (D&C 11:21)
· Be Current
o 88:78 Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;
o 88:79 Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms. (Doctrine and Covenants)
· Teach for understanding (Isaiah 28: 9-10)
o A whole section of the class is devoted to this cause, saying this is the means by the following tools.
§ Generative Topics
They are interesting instructive subjects.
§ Through-lines/Understanding Goals
§ Performances of Understanding
§ Ongoing Assessment
· Continually improve my curriculum
o
o 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
o 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little - Isaiah
· Teach in the moment
Plan of Salvation
Pre-mortal Life
Creation
· Be knowledgeable of the world from the beginning learn all aspects of it in theory and application
· Education makes raw material into innovating industry.
Horace Mann
“Education creates or develops new treasures; treasures not before possessed or dreamed of by any one.”
Fall of Adam and the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
· Teach and live up to integrity's expectations
· practice, teach, make habit of the higher order of thinking
o Steven Wolk criticized heavily the worksheet education of many public schools, for they were teaching the students that learning revolved around completing.
Decide what is right. Moroni 7:19
Bloom’s Taxonomy unto higher order of thinking
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Don’t get boggled with the details and precision of expectations, but focus more on thought and idea processes.
Imani Perry
Socialized education saves children from this cruel world
Horace Mann
Forsake the natural man (Mosiah 3:19)
The natural man is the natural tendencies to be angry, jealous, hate, envy, lust, and so forth.
Mortality (imperfection and the imminent death)
· Be an example of remembering what is important
· Be connected with the community, teaching from real life experiences.
o I see that this is important to develop confidence and skill in social life exemplary in the organization of the Madison High School in Rexburg. They were highly professional. The community were greatly involved in the production insomuch that provided funds for cable in order to pick up the performers for the effect of flying or floating, and they also
Reforms would ultimately rely on teachers
Teachers are accountable for the learning of the student. - Jean Anyon
Seek higher education. Don’t be satisfied with skill, work, and money.
W.E.B. Du Bois
The common core standards:
Are aligned with college and workforce expectations;
Are clear, understandable, and consistent;
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills;
Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards;
Are informed by standards in other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and
Are evidence-based.
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· Respect the centralized standard and abilities of the nation’s education has been given by President Johnson.
Christ's Earthly Ministry
· Make new structures that education practices can improve (a corporate model)
Jean Anyon believes new structures are the means to change the foundation of education.
Work at a local level, making adaptations at a local level
Superintendents and principles should give up “absolute power”
Retain a role of instructional leadership and motivational role
Give children control of his work in education
John Dewey
Have a personal relationship with your students. Let student teacher contact abound.
Imani Perry felt this lack at a public school.
Education unites, stabilizes nations, raising the standard of living.
Horace Mann
Atonement
· Believe everyone can change by learning, if they will it
Resurrection, Second Coming of Christ and his millennial reign
· Don’t be a political teacher.
o Don’t play the politics, for it is a sign of weakness.
§ Jean Anyon
Judgment
· Be an instructor of Justice
o Amos, the bible prophet is famous for being an instructor of social justice,
Implement discipline
Jean Anynon
Justice and conciliation has a reforming influence.
Horace Mann
Kingdoms of Glory, Immortality, and Eternal Life
· Eternal Marriage
o Family units is a greatest opportunity for education with the father and mother
§ Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The Seven Questions
1. Who am I and what motivates me?
I am Alex Hicken, and human relationship with God, the eternal nature our siblings as the children of God, and our savior Jesus Christ inspires me. I want the best for the children of God, and there is so much depth to human relations. With this nature I often say that I seek to master communication skills as a tool to fulfill the will of God.
2. How do I view those I teach?
I view those that I teach has people with great potential. I want help people live according to their true desires. During this past summer, I helped two people live their dreams to riding a bicycle to working professionally with musicians. Finding ones true potential and passion is necessary to this cause, so I take interest in people’s passions.
3. What is my work as learner and teacher?
My work is to prepare my student to be effective citizens in society.
4. What is worth teaching?
The power of teaching is the true inspiration of the world. Teaching in its’ many forms changes the world making things happen.
5. How do I learn?
I try not to limit the ways that I learn, seeing my soul as very dynamic. I ponder a lot though. I learn intellectually based, analyzing as many parts of life that I am lead to.
6. Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
Public schools are built upon its curriculum. They seek to accomplish the missions of the school. Identifying the people who establish the curriculum or agenda of the schools are controversial.
7. What is the role of school in society?
School’s role in society is to raise and set the standard of knowledge and experience of the children therein.
The Seven Questions answered on the 11th of December 2012
1. Who am I and what motivates me?
I am a student at Brigham Young University in Idaho, studying special education. The exploration of different careers in education is my plan. I want to be influential in the world of education, since America is the land of opportunity. I want to be a reformer thereof. A BYU website indicated to be that it is a good foundation to enter administration in order to be a reformer of education.The role of a principal is a means to make change in the nation’s education system that I plan to seek. Receiving a vision, I can make this change, which will need to be tested theoretically and pondered before implementation during my education.
Over the Thanksgiving Break, pondering one night on this goal, since I could not sleep, my thought connected the concept of capitalism to socialized education. Socialism is a controversial means to accomplish our goals, but it is popular. As a principal I would develop a nature of a school that will have each department will be reliant on their own capital; therefore, an unprofitable subject may be cut, but a profitable subject can thrive. I look forward to the day, if this vision is fulfilled that competition among public schools will raise the standard of learning as it becomes a leading standard of business.
I envision that theory should be taught in school, but each department has a business and practicing teachers of the subject. An English teacher must practice a profitable practice therein as an example; then, we will not be forced to practice skills, which we are not interested in. I played in band; although, I was not interested in it, and I did not understand music theoretically. I learn to enjoy music as I learned the theory of music. Those that have the passion to apply these exciting principles should be employed in their practice, developing their talent, passion, and skill by the unlimited means of capitalism. I would not have applied to join the band to be employed, and I should not have been employed in the band in high school because I lacked the musical theorical understanding. Can someone master music without the understanding of theory, but we practice music without the teaching of theory? If my high school only has 4 masters of practicing musicians even one musician, they can be means for profit to run a program. What is the use of an unprofitable program?
I can go on with my vision, but I look forward to the day, when my high school will not beg for funding, but pay taxes, showing the world that education does not need to be socialized, and we can employ the great talent and passion of adolescence. This is my vision to reform education. I want my school to be a first to have an IPO.
2. How do I view those I teach?
I view my students and I am. We are learning to live in this world. All perspectives need to be understood. Education needs to be insightful for all individuals. Students are not an object of work as public education is not profitable. I see many youth lack parents a father, mother, or both.
Teachers are temporally guardians of a child; therefore, I see my position as fatherly. Parents need to be mentors until they are adults. When children are adults, they should be treated by a self-reliant adult as is the parent.
In my high school, a teacher will be an equal in the learning of their craft. Educators need to be practicing their subject. Math is a profitable subject in all practices. A teacher that cannot think the theoretical means of the purpose of their subject that it may be profitable; otherthan itself, he should not be teaching it, for they don’t understand the student, their role, or the role of math.
3. What is my work as a learner and a teacher?
My work as a learner and a teacher is the proper way reform education. I see that the role of a principal as a leader of a school; although, they can only lead perhaps a part of a city. I believe that he can lead a nation as company can be a leading developer of technology of the world. A profit of a singular high school cannot abide in its own residence, expecting to be profitable enough to be self-sustaining; therefore, this competition will have to spread. What if my high school is prospering enough to have composers of popular music for its own performers, when was the last time that a school or a teacher composed a song. Even if I have one masterful musician he can be a most profitable asset, he can go on alone, forsaking the employment of a department, a professional musician. We are all trying to prosper. We are all trying to figure out our way in the world; therefore, my school ought to have the same perspective.
4. What is worth teaching?
The things worth teaching are the things profitable unto man. The basic is literacy. This is the basics of man to explore theory. Things that are profitable do not need to be in a business setting as I have been writing of. Learning history is profitable in order to not suffer the same mistakes as the past. My university taught manners at the business dining situation because it is profitable. Learning sex education is profitable in order to have an informed relationship with the opposite sex, which lays a foundation for success in the family. Most subjects are profitable; therefore, my high school will when prospering will cut a program. It should be expanding as the courses in colleges and universities are expanding. Idea pitchs can be a means of expands and entrepreneurship. No student should ever endure a bad program, and they are not worth teaching because it is harmful to the field of study and the perspectives of the student and everyone involved.
5. How do I learn?
I learn by various means. I believe that learning comes by cognitive development. I say cognitive because there needs to be thinking in order to improve; therefore, I think a lot. Learning can come from pondering experience, human collaboration, literature, and so forth.
I believe that pondering is connected with idealism, the philosophy. In idealism there are truths in many varieties. I believe that God has a plan for his children on earth. Each aspect of that plan has many ideas of truths in the philosophy of idealism, and there are great depths to this. One ideal to ponder is the rights and wrongs of human relationships. When pondering these depths and ideals, Doctrines and principles are discovered. Doctrines are eternal truth. These ideas can address many questions of life. Principles are the ideals applied to life. The pondering of these things is important to me. A life based on doctrines and principles is based on truths. A life lived without the truths of doctrines and principles is lost. Things lose meaning without this process of understanding. I believe in a life of meaning this way.
6. Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
As you may have read, I believe that the principal is the leader of a school. I may be mistaken because I am young in the exploration of the education system. This leader has a guiding role for the teachers.
Teachers have an important role as part of the foundation of education because they are at the forefront, actually running the class applying the lesson plans. The teachers set the learning environment for every student in schools.
Another foundation of education is the philosophy and nature of the school. The philosophy and nature of the school sets the methodology of learning. The goals of a school are a key. These goals can focus on academic excellence and structure, college preparation, diploma and literacy, and learning of social skills.
The students are the foundation too because they have the needs in their development. A children’s development is a very individualized process especially with “disabled” students. Teaching for their needs is an important principle.
7. What is the role of school in society?
Schools are given too many responsibilities, and these roles can be seen as realistic. These tasks are unable to be accomplished; thus, they fail at all tasks. A list of roles that Diane Ravitch composed of the many roles that are sought after for public schools as follows: reduce inequality among individuals, improve economy, spread skill, improve the civilization, reduce alienation, and build more united communities. The preservation of creativity is a subject of much attention today as literacy is taken for granted in America. I don’t believe in the minimal standard to teaching only literacy.
With my vision of my high school, adolescence will see the purpose of writing, reading, and the practicing of skill, for it is not a far off to be practicing a profession and a career. This practice in not extracurricular, but it wil be professional. The high school years and adolescence is a time of learning new emotion and the exploration, and it is also the time of the discovery of abstract thought. An adolescent is full of the passion for life, and the normal high school kills it by studying preparing for college, accomplishing little. Some may work, and some may have practiced a hobby. A lot of adolescence are wasting away this age of discover with meaningless thrill-seeking activities. The standards of a high school diploma and college preparation will remain, but the classes explain the theory of life. These theories are shown to be directly applied in the department businesses by the practicing teachers on the leading edge of their profession.
A portfolio and creative activities were appreciated in school achievement in one of the literary zeniths of education in the class manual. This can be a means to prepare a resume to apply for department businesses; however, these businesses will have a high professional standard. Not any person that applies will be given a job of high demand and experience. They will need to show their talent, skill, and diligence, and they will be paid with a competitive wage.
I have no idea how this will change middle schools, but this establishment is a controversial situation. Perhaps middle school can be a beginning of the preparation of their portfolio of works, practicing skills; a more focused purpose of education, as they may be gave an entry level job their freshman year of high school.
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