How serious is our desire for our children to know Jesus and His words? While we are not advocating brainwashing, certainly there is something a Christian can learn from the North Korean about child-rearing:
While speaking of the original Kim dictatorship, Bradley K. Martin says in
his detailed treatise on the Kim dynasty, Under the Loving Care of the
Fatherly Leader:
" ‘As soon as you are born you are received by a nursery, then led
through a flowery gate to an eleven-year education.'
"Indeed, officials told me, mothers were entitled to seventy-seven days
of maternity leave before turning their babies over to public day nurseries, or
in some cases full-time nurseries. ‘Home education has an important meaning in
a society where private ownership of the means of production is predominant,'
Kim-Il-sung had said in a 1968 speech. ‘But it has no important meaning in a
different, socialist society.'
"The state, taking over much of the parental role, had been training
youngsters to worship Kim. ‘Our Great Leader is the Supreme Leader of
revolution, its heart and the only center,' said one official policy statement.
‘We have to inculcate in our future generations the absolute authority of the
Leader, the indisputable thoughts and instructions of the Leader, so that they
may accept them as faith and the law of the land.'
"Schoolbooks portrayed Kim in his heroic roles. Their illustrations
were drawings in the style of children's Biblical literature... Some pictured
Kim's exploits, whether real or imagined, as a child and as a young guerrilla
commander. Others depicted a mature Kim, sometimes surrounded by children in
tableaux reminiscent of the Sunday-school pictures that illustrate the words of
Jesus, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto Me.'
"The training and peer pressure that reinforced such images had
intensified over the years. Thus, the young people I met struck me as more
fanatical than North Koreans aged forty or older, whose indoctrination had not
been as thoroughgoing."
So much to think about in that piece... The elder Kim truly was
attempting to replace the Christ He heard about growing up in his parents'
church... The power of education!... Are we not following the Communist model
when we give our children over to state-run programs and schools just after
birth?... Can we complain about the product of so many years of
indoctrination?...What are American schools giving its children that has
greater worth than what Kim gives?... Are Christian parents devoted to having the
Life and Word and Way of our Dear Leader inculcated in their young ones?
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