It's NOT For Humans to Understand?!

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Amish people are never taught anything to do with science. There is never any education in Amish school about science.

[00:00:08]The Amish are against science and they believe that people it's not possible for humans to even understand the process of things that can be explained scientifically. When I was a young girl, I would question about some things and I was always told that same answer, "Well, it's not for us humans to know and we're not allowed to question." And also, there's no way to find the the actual answers to understand some certain things if you're Amish because you have to look outside of the Amish to find the correct information. Imagine going your whole life without ever hearing any conversation, ever even knowing that some of these things exist, never ever hearing any such thing about the rain cycle, the periodic table, chemical reactions, Punnett squares, the food web, photosynthesis, nutrition and health that goes with science, the solar system, anatomy, just teaching about our own bodies, physics, gravity and magnetic fields. There's so much more information that is very helpful to understand things that goes with the subject of science that the Amish are never taught about. They might never hear any conversation about it, not even a word, their entire life. So, when I say that people who leave the Amish one of their biggest struggles is the education gap, then I mean that in a big way. There is a huge education gap. Just to have regular conversations with the people around you. Like someone might say something that might include something with our own anatomy. But if you're an Amish person and you haven't educated yourself after leaving the Amish, then you might have zero clue what they're talking about. So, you would feel like you don't fit in and you'd feel uncomfortable. I definitely do believe that one of the biggest reasons for the Amish having their own education system is so that their children will more likely stay Amish.

[00:02:13]Because if the Amish children would get the same amount of education that the public schools do, then a lot more of the Amish children would leave the Amish. And also, in public school you typically get taught how to think for yourself, critical thinking, and that is never taught in the Amish either, not ever. The reason for that is because all of our Amish life we are taught to we are not allowed to question. Like all the rules, you just have to obey, we're not allowed to question it. Most of the time there's never any explanation or there's not even real reasons for the rules. So, if they would be allowed to question, then they could understand why they're doing it and then you could go into the education as well and and explain it to them so that they can understand.