Bluetemplar
New Member
Perfection is unknowable, however we can all strive to be better than who we are. In my humble opinion Freemasonry's entire subject matter is grounds for masonic education. To say that certain aspects of the fraternity are and are not education is severely limiting, since each brother brings different knowledge and experience to the meeting which others may or may not have, that act of imparting ANY knowledge would be grounds for masonic education.
Some are great ritualists and bring a vast, competent, as well as patient teacher to the floor of a school of instruction. Others are able administrators and can be found wearing the collar of a Lodge Secretary or Master. They also can teach the same talents to up and coming officers of the line. Historians, hold the fraternities memory of both triumphs and mistakes made by those who came before us, imparting thier knowledge to an inquiring brother or brothers.
So is Masonic Education strictly the architectural alchemey we expect when we go to a meeting? I dont think so. Freemasonry as subject matter is so vast and published that all aspects of the fraterntiy should be considered education with no questions or answers being ridiculed or taboo.
When practiced it should be the total free exchange of ideas and knowledge inherent in the very fiber of the craft, Freemasonry is education, one need only avail himself of the lessons.
Some are great ritualists and bring a vast, competent, as well as patient teacher to the floor of a school of instruction. Others are able administrators and can be found wearing the collar of a Lodge Secretary or Master. They also can teach the same talents to up and coming officers of the line. Historians, hold the fraternities memory of both triumphs and mistakes made by those who came before us, imparting thier knowledge to an inquiring brother or brothers.
So is Masonic Education strictly the architectural alchemey we expect when we go to a meeting? I dont think so. Freemasonry as subject matter is so vast and published that all aspects of the fraterntiy should be considered education with no questions or answers being ridiculed or taboo.
When practiced it should be the total free exchange of ideas and knowledge inherent in the very fiber of the craft, Freemasonry is education, one need only avail himself of the lessons.