WORDS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S INTELLIGENCE

Having very intelligent children is the dream of every parent, but be aware, intelligence is appreciated by one’s ability to realize concrete connections between the tone of words (language) and its meaningful representation.

Teaching our children to communicate by using clear and meaningful words is a prime necessity to ensure an accurate development of their intelligence. The ability to express thoughts and feelings in words that are meaningful and coherent is a good measure of a child’s intelligence.

To master a language is to have a natural aptitude in connecting the tone of the “Word” with its meaningful representation as registered in the cerebral file, if not, be assured that the assimilation process is incomplete.

The child confronts a language dilemma that over time if constantly repeated can burn his cerebral aptitudes to assimilate. One may say he becomes unintelligent. Unfortunately this is the condition imposed on our children by the French system of education, a total disregard for the child’s natural language.

Parents, educators and teachers primary concern in educating children is to ensure that the teaching language permits the child to be always capable of associating the sounds or tone of the words with their physical image or concept as registered in her or his cerebral file.

Children's intelligence can be appreciated from the clarity of their language, their ability to connect and express their thoughts in truthful and concrete words, well fitted in context.


Church Greetings

Transcending regular school’s teaching, Church training is to play a prime role in developing children and young people knowledge and sense of the “Word”, for as Christians our belief in God is grounded on the “Word”. Our original curse is the price we pay for our disregard to the meaning of the “Word”, and subsequently disobedience to God commands.

When we teach our children to stand on a pulpit, eyes to eyes with mother, father, grand parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, neighbors, elders, school friends etc, and greets all in terms of “Good morning Church”, we are teaching them to ‘depersonalize’ their close surroundings.

It is incoherent to have a methodical attitude regarding “Words” of the Holy Scriptures and a scatterbrained attitude regarding words we use in our daily and brotherly relations.

Greeting one another is keeping alive the flame of our friendly, brotherly and family affection, and this can only be achieved in an exaltation of personal feelings one towards each other and not by evoking impersonal concept and closing eyes to our close and natural relation.

By hailing the congregation “Church” from the pulpit, our close circle suddenly becomes impersonal and anonymous. It is teaching children to embrace an abstract and impersonal language against the affectionate language in which they have identified their surroundings from childhood and expressed but love and affection.

Be assured this behavior can only have a counter-intelligent impact on our children.

Greeting the congregation from the pulpit in terms of “Church” may be of ‘no problem’ for some but it can be very heartbreaking for others sensitive to the fact that language reflects attitude and attitude reflects quality of godly and brotherhood relations within the CHURCH.

Greeting a composite assembly or television viewers in terms of “Church” finds its sense in its particular context. Here the targeted are individuals that by irony, belongs to no Church, generally the victims of society exclusion. The sense in hailing them Church may instill them with a sense of belonging or being part of a whole.

But greeting the congregation of an organized Church in terms of “Church” has the opposite sense. Because it dashes our sense of close and intimate links and in the place, instills a sense of anonymity or impersonality one in regards of the other, obviously contrary to the multiple natural links that can attach in the reality one to the other mostly in little local churches as St-Martin’s Methodist Churches.

When coming from children addressing a congregation including parents and grand parents aunts and uncles, hailing them “Church” even takes a blasphemous tone in the ears of people concerned over the right way to educate children.

As a matter of fact, Church is not an emanation of relationship one with another but more of a spiritual relationship with God through the spiritual body of his Son Jesus Christ risen from the dead.

Likely as a corporate created by its associates, gains its own moral personality distinct from its associates, so should be considered a Church as a Christian body. The Congregation constitutes the associates of the Church, but it is pretentious to take Church as synonymous with congregation.

In the context of an organized Church, to hail the congregation ‘Church’ seems also pejorative because if the physical congregation constitutes the Church on the other hand Church is not defined as a physical congregation but as the people of God, destined to inherit the kingdom of God and this include physical bodies as well as spiritual bodies, primary the risen Jesus Christ and God’s Angels.

All through the Holy Scriptures we note that a clear distinction is observed between the Church and its physical congregation, the former is perfect the latter is potentially imperfect.

Brotherhood feelings are primarily observed and maintained in personalized warm and hearty greeting.



There is power in the “Word”. A Nation that overlooks the true sense of the “word” or disregards the need to fit words in their meaningful context is like a people that light a lamp and put it under a bowl.

Words are like a lighted lamp on its stand, it gives light to everyone in the house.

Culture is not a nostalgic grip on our ancestral manners and customs. A great writer once said: “Culture is what remains when all is forgotten”. That should be our attitude.

People ought to progress in their culture and the contribution of foreign civilization can be very fruitful but in this perspective it must be contextually fitted and contributes to an intelligible enrichment culture and not adopted in the manner of a blunt substitution.