What's so great about the truth?

Great question?  Why does it matter if anyone tells the truth?  In fact, isn't truth in the eye of the beholder? 

I beleve truth to be fundamental and absolute.  There is a right and a wrong. 

I have always prided myself in having no grey area.  In our relationships with co-workers, professors, family, and even ourselves, truth has to be concrete and certain.  Otherwise, you make up the rules as you go along, and soon you no longer see a society of law and order.  Instead you see chaos, and people struggling to figure out what they believe. So...what am I getting at? 

Recently, I have gone back to school to get my teacher certification.  That involves going back to the (cue scary music) the University.  How much untruth will I have to endure before I have that little piece of paper telling the world that I am certified to teach.  Well, lets find out. 

You're invited as I, once again hit the books and debate professors.  Throughout my, or our journey, if you decide to follow, you will hear me share the stuff that I think is interesting, infuriating, and the stuff that I flat out reject because I do not believe it to be true.  Also, for those of you not interested in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, I will be commenting on a little bit of everything.  My favorites include politics, politics, history, and...politics.  I can't promise that you will agree, in fact I have found that most people don't.  In fact, my poor, wonderful wife doesn't always agree.   I will promise however, that I will tell the truth.  I will have facts and examples to back up why I believe what I believe.  Those of you who knew me years ago can thank my wife for tempering my arrogance.  I not here to pick fights.  What's going on in society right now is going to change America for the next 100 years and I don't like it. 

Tonight in class we discussed what our views of school were.  Should a school be a tool for changing society or a tool for transmitting society? I beleive that it should be a tool for transmitting society and reminding use where we have come from.  America has done many good things.  America has done many evil things.  If we lose track of where we have been, and what we have done, good or bad; we won't know where we are going.  That is why I want to be a teacher.  

vincit omnia veritas- truth conquers all things.