Are We Setting A Good Example?
March 23, 2009
Our good future is entirely dependent on education. The moment we reach a state where our children are being raised properly, we will no longer need to worry about the development of the human race, because we will surely be on the right track. Our decline from generation to generation is simply a result of our failure to provide our children with the proper education.
Children absorb everything from us, because a child learns through examples, by behavioral models that he or she picks up from their parents, and later on from the environment at large. If we knew how to give them the proper example from the day they were born, along with the ego growing in them from day to day, we would supply them with the means for correcting themselves above this ego and in that manner they would be in perpetual progression.
Education means giving children the means to be above their own nature, to control their own nature. This of course includes educating the parents to enable them to pass on to their kids the proper behavior.
We adults are quite lost nowadays. We were educated incorrectly and we need to correct ourselves. We will be the first generation to correct itself, but it is just as crucial for us to make sure the generation following ours is a corrected one. It is up to us to create a situation where our children recognize the solution to all the problems and troubles in this world. Even from a very tender age when they begin being capable of absorbing things. That they will know how to rise above it all and attain not only a disconnection from the troubles we have here, but to reach a happy, eternal, complete and satisfying existence full of all the fillings imaginable.
All this is in our hands, and it has never been done before. We are the first generation that must set the correct educational foundation for children.
Where Did We Go Wrong?
March 23, 2009
We are living in a world where parents work very hard and are often not with their kids for most of the day. Children spend much of their time in front of TV or computer screens and are essentially getting their values from society and not from their parents. Apparently, the kids are not too thrilled with this state of affairs.
How did we end up in this unpleasant situation? Fifty years ago we were taught in school that in fifty years parents will have much more time to spend with their children, because they will have so much spare time on their hands. In those days parents worked eight or nine hours a day and thought that they would eventually cut down to five or six hours a day; that more time would be devoted to the family, to education, to culture, and building the child’s personality.
They also spoke of a change in child education, that it would be more interesting, integrate more examples, that they would take groups of children to an airport for example and all sorts of interesting places and allow them to come face to face with the richness of society.
Those fifty years have gone by and what have we done? We work for longer hours, the family unit is disintegrating, the father does not want anything to do with the mother, there is no connection between parents, the children are disconnected from the parents and even their grandparents. The only means of communication they have, the internet and TV, completely isolate them from their parents, and they do not receive their education in school but rather from many other types of sources.
As we can see, school is not intended to provide a person with an education and build him. There is not some special character that we expect to see upon a child graduating, but simply that he received a basic education, to prepare him somewhat for a profession he will learn in the future. After completing their studies every child will make a living according to their character, and a lot is left to chance. No one is talking about the “person” that has to come straight out of the oven with a whole collection of values and tendencies.