Anger is probably the most dangerous habit to form so early in life. Count your blessings to be practicing forbearance with many brothers and sisters and people stepping on your toes and elbowing you. This will knock you down much and you will have to learn to get up much.
Self-anger is far more stubborn. Do not get into the habit of name calling and degrading. Wars are started from just such feeble beginnings. It seems, from watching Goodbye Mr. Chipps that I see that the English had a vision of beating their swords to plowshears far earlier than I had seen. "The heart of England" is what the headmaster called their school. Those who learn the controls carry the day. When we neglect these disciplines in education as a nation we are deteriorating the body. The heart is sick. The heart is collapsed and the body is moving without one. Deathly silent, is the place where children have no place to bring their folly and have it corrected or directed.
Education has been seen in rebellious Americas as the place where the mind is filled up like a gas tank and the rich have the information to lord it over the poor and ignorant. I like the heart analogy, far better. Whatever we are as a nation and whatever we agree to be together, we become in the schools. We feed into the progress of the world or the deterioration of the world in school.
What do we do with our anger? Where do we place it and to what purpose is it to serve? We find that out in school. I see now that the SAT's were designed to melt the knowledge of people's histories out of them to try to create a utopian amalgamation with only the distinctions placed upon you by the school. God gave us our distinctions. Rather than root them out through selective means such as SAT's, we should find the effectiveness and usefulness of the child and train them to use their skills for the good of the whole.
One might say "Your anger makes me angry." Their burdens of history need to be rooted out, so that we have one nation. Is that so? One history is God's history and He is the God of truth. Not only the God of the dominant culture. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Grace teaches you and grace molds you into a person who can affect your culture in spite of your inability to forget the sad state that the world is in because of sin. Anger does not accomplish God's will. Grow up a people who can engage in discussions on these points.
I love the Presidential debates, where we see the verbal interaction of great men and how they deal with things which would cause others to be rumbling in the street. It instructs the young men on what to do when this happens to them. Young men need to see men engaged in verbal discussion, even on what makes them angry.
This recent discussion made it clear that young black men can learn from Obama self control as they deal with their conflicts in their spheres.
Attacks come and the other men will taunt you and call you an opportunist for being in a position of leadership and having such that that affords and the temptation is to strike blows at their character for doing so. Self control says that is unimportant. Stick to the topic.
Do NOT Give YOUR STRENGTH to that which destroys kings.
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