My beliefs are entirely the opposite. What a wholly different world we might enjoy living in if children were taught the moral reasoning behind each of them, but instead, the mention of them in school could serve as your ticket out the door. While I agree that it is true that it is impossible to not break one or more of the commandments in a lifetime, a week, and even a day, I believe that if children were instructed in them in a disciplined environment, our world and our lives in general could be less destructive and so full of pain. Ponder the greatest mistakes and/or regrets of your life regarding something you did or said, then examine where you breaking a commandment in committing the act?
John Lennon wrote a pretty famous song, "Imagine." As I child, I listened and enjoyed the song without actually listening to the lyrics. As I grew older, I couldn't imagine a world without Heaven. The thought actually makes me grieve deeply for the plight of man if all there is after death is nothing. John might have fantasized about a Utopia here on Earth if humans were aloud to live free of a supreme being. Maybe his idea of rooting out Heaven, Hell, God, and religion might have seemed like a plausible solution to all that ails the world. Many atheists decry Christianity in this way. But one only has to examine the 20th century that Lennon lived in and face the facts that it was the bloodiest century in all of the history of mankind. Furthermore, the greatest number of atrocities inflicted upon a people were in China and Russia - both communist nations that strictly forbid religion and religious practices. Sorry to burst your bubble Mr. Lennon - but another Mr. Lenin began your experiment in putting human morality and ideology above God's moral law. Stalin, Khrushchev, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il and others rooted God out and what remained was the sad, miserable truth - human nature devoid of God leads to annihilation of the innocents. Toss in Hitler's Germany and you've topped roughly 100,000,000 lost souls in nations who abandoned God.
In the 21st century, in the land of the so-called free, the media continually puts forth the question, "Where was God?" in the wake of school shootings that take the lives of innocent children, but they aren't really seeking the truth. What they are seeking is to sew discord between God and humanity. The truth is of their own making, but as with another infamous example of Biblical history that I will revisit shortly - they asked the question with no intention of hearing the answer. God has been outlawed from schools with ever increasing clarity and with the greater backing of our nations government since the radical sixties. Children aren't allowed to pray in school, discuss or debate evolution versus creationism, read the Bible, etc, and yet when there is tragedy - it becomes God's fault because He didn't break down the walls we put before Him, go against our own free will, and save the children we forbid to know of His existence. Who is really to blame America?
Revisiting a very important Biblical example of the premise I have just mentioned. In the book of John, chapter 18, verses 37-38, Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate as a soon to be condemned man. Jumping into the context of the discussion with Pilate questioning the Jew's accusations of Jesus declaring himself a king (hoping Pilate would condemn him of starting a revolution against Rome). (17) "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." (18) "What is truth?" retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him." Pilate spoke the truth in stating there was no basis for a charge against Jesus. Just as there is no basis for charges against God today. But just as with the intellectual humanism of the present age, when the voice of God says, "Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." Those who follow the propaganda of the present age, with an an air of indifference, actually follow in Pilate's footsteps by halfheartedly and hardheartedly asking the question - "what is truth?" Only to turn and walk away with no intention of actually hearing it.