Failing at learning

If you fail a grade in school, you get held back a year and have to repeat it.

What does it say about the church when you repeat the Sunday School curriculum every 4 years and never move past it?

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  1. djulcsi says:
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    I had a very similar conversation just two days ago. I compared the temple to driver’s ed. The purpose of the driver’s ed course ostensibly is to prepare people with the knowledge needed to drive so they can drive safely on their own. However, in order to fulfill that purpose long term (ie continue teaching people to drive), the organization providing the class needs to ensure its own survival first. It is simply a fact of nature that especially over time, the true objective of the class will take precedence: ensuring that there are always students. So regardless of the fact that the content of the course is all about how to drive successfully and safely on your own, the presentation of the material will encourage people to keep repeating the coursework, instead of moving on to actual solo driving.

    This does not make the organization inherently bad–it is just being itself, naturally. Any other organization would do exactly the same in this situation. It’s a fact of nature, and useless to place blame. Instead, I worry about the students. Why do the students put up with it? Why aren’t they seeing the true message of the course content? The principles being taught to them are clear enough that they should be able to get up, leave the classroom, and drive off on their own, yet somehow they don’t see it, and believe they still need to sit in the class, repeating the course material.

    There are only two things you can do about this: first, you solve the conundrum for yourself and finally learn to “drive” on your own. Second, the rest of the people still in class are happy there and will ignore any suggestions that they shouldn’t be there–instead, you can only pose them the question, “so when are you actually going out for a drive?”

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