I believe that common sense and education by mentoring/apprenticing--i.e. discipling and being discipled are intimately linked.
Common sense is dying because the way we educate our progeny has been changed by powerful forces that do satan's bidding. Like Gnostics of old, we worship at the feet of knowledge for knowledge's sake--the belief that the one who has taken a lot of classes, knows a lot of "stuff", and has college degrees is the one who should have authority.
Jesus said, "Go, make disciples..." He did not say, accumulate or collect students.
If you read "The Peter Principle", you begin to understand why you may be thoroughly frustrated in dealing with people who have 'power', but no sense. You get a real sense of this just by watching brief excerpts of Congressional hearings. I cringe to think that our governmental beauracracy is LOADED with these kinds of air-heads. And I know that the private sector has their share as well; how often we see examples of..."It doesn't make sense, but the 'rules' say we must......" or "this is a new product, and although we don't know how well it will sell, let's buy 3 years of it to get the best per-unit pricing." The people who make those decisions have not proven themselves to be successful in the business world, but they do have a degree, and friends who have money and power.
I have been taught enough history to know that the D-Day invasion succeeded, in part, due to German beauracratic thinking, and, in part, due to American ingenuity. The German Army was not sent from Pas de Calais to Normandy in time because of Hitler's predisposition, and military red tape. The Americans succeeded because they knew the goals, both overall and those specific to each group of fighting men. They had the liberty to improvise a Plan B if something went wrong. That 'America' almost doesn't exist anymore.
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