Telestial Education is the education is like the Light of the STARS (D&C 76:82)
Purpose: get a job!, to get gain! (see Helaman 7:21)
Method: competition pressure, stress, force, shame, grades and honors, fear, confusion, deception, job training, indoctrinated, little light/truth, entertainment centered.
Teaching Process: The Philosophies of men; It is the teaching the philosophies of men in pieces
Results/Dangers: Lack of self-esteem, materialism, greed, fear, “not my responsibility”, lust, power, dishonesty, compartmentalization (blunts the spirit), desensitization, job training. False pride: pride in their own accomplishments not in divine light
Responsibility: The school, the government, others.
Examples: The pioneers, “But behold, they have not learned to be obedient to the things which I required at their hands, but are full of all manner of evil, and do not impart of their substance, as becometh saints, to the poor and afflicted among them; And are not united according to the union required by the law of the celestial kingdom;” D&C 105:3-4