We see this kind of clarity at work in the world today in the rising tide of fundamentalism affecting many of the world's religious communities. Those who claim to have the "fundamentals" operate out of a sense of clarity that says that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Any who choose to question, doubt, or raise another perspective are accused of false belief and are excluded from the community.
The danger for education is that we stop learning. If we already know the truth, if we are already clear about it, we don't need to bother with more knowledge or information. We take what Paulo Freire calls a "banking" approach to education. Our task is simply to "deposit" our clarity in others, and they will be just fine. There is no longer room for doubts and questions, for alternative perspectives through which God might speak a new word to us.
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False clarity hinders our work of renewing and transforming educational ministry in the church. False clarity is at work when we refuse to look at curriculum materials and resources from a variety of places, insisting instead that only one source of materials is the correct and appropriate one for a church's use. False clarity is at work when we insist that there is only one right way to structure a church school (for example, along age-segregated lines) or only one translation of the Bible that can be used in Bible study.
"Basics of Christian Education", Karen B. Tye, Chalice Press, 2000, pp. 122-123.
中文翻譯：
我們看見這種虛假，透過所謂「原教旨主義」，正在不同的宗教團體中產生作用。那些自稱懂得「原教旨」的，會毫不猶豫指出自己是對的，也同時肯定別人是錯的。任何（人）選擇發出疑問、懷疑或指出其他觀點都會被斥責為假信仰，或被逐出該信仰群體。
（這種思維）對教育的禍害，就是它鼓勵人停止學習。如果我們都已經知道真理，如果我們都完全清晰，我們便不再覺得需要新的知識和資訊，巴西教育學家保羅．弗雷勒(Paulo Freire)形容這是一種「儲蓄式教育」，我們只需要把「清晰」存入人的賬戶，他們便會一切安好。這樣神便不再會有空間去透過懷疑或發問，或是其他觀點向人說新鮮的話。
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虛假的清晰阻礙我們更新或轉變教會中教育事工的工作。當我們拒絕從不同的來源尋找新的課程材料，而不斷堅持教會只用一個來源的材料，這便是虛假的清晰了。虛假的清晰也告訴我們教會的教育事工只有一個方式，譬如說以年齡為分界線，又或者只以一個聖經翻譯為唯一接受的聖經版本。
"Basics of Christian Education", Karen B. Tye, Chalice Press, 2000, pp. 122-123.
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