The Brainiest of them all

Just a note to all teachers and NIE trainee-teachers reading this : I can feel your stress...

Watched "Singapore's Brainiest Kid" on Tuesday and man... scary. The amount of knowledge these top kids of our nation today possess is phenomenal. Congrats to the winner, Annabelle (I think... my memory's failing me). But I was most impressed by her reading speed. For most of the questions, even before I was halfway through reading the question, she had either passed the question or answered it correctly! (speed reading perhaps? I don't know!) Her specialist subject was Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and man... she certainly was a specialist in it! I betcha she could tell you the exact shade and colour of Gandalf's pipe if that information was in the book!

After all that, I was thinking that teachers and parents have a hard time in teaching and bringing up their children in the way of the Lord. This job can often be discouraging, energy-sapping(just read the comic "Baby Blues!") and it has immense responsibilities. (Round of applause for our own parents!) Tough.

Parents, parents-to-be, teachers and teachers-to-be... In truth, they are moulding the future of our nation. But from a more micro perspective, the main goal of these Christian leaders is to bring their child/student to a greater understanding of the Christian race, and not "top grades win". Tough, but with God's strength, it can be done :)

And as children and students ourselves, let's not give our parents, teachers, lecturers a hard time ya? ;)

So, who's the "brainiest" kid of them all?
Ans: a child brought up to love and fear the Lord :)