Dear friends of Ananta,
We enclose in pdf and in Spanish and English the text on the childhood published by World Goodwill in its May Bulletin. We also upload it to the web page for which you want to copy or paste some text from it.
Yesterday we talked in seed thinking about the importance of prenatal and postnatal education until six, seven years. Some educational systems such as Waldorf-Steiner and Montessori have been influencing this aspect for years. Tagore, Krishnamurti, Yoganada, Djwahl Khul and Aëvanhov, among others, establish the education and training of the child as the capital axis for the regeneration of humanity.
We have chosen three quotes that reflect well the spirit of this text.
It has also been discovered that service is a natural moral impulse in children. Unfortunately, it is normal for children to learn to silence the voice of consciousness as they grow older. This usually occurs as a direct result of the role models parents and adults and the growing immersion of the child in the values of society. As soon as a child gets on the school bus, he starts to collect what other children have learned from their families and he stops using his moral compass. innate Under pressure to succeed, the ideal of doing the right thing is replaced by doing what is right for me. Frequently society encourages and fosters a mental state of self-interest, replacing the voice of consciousness with which the child is born.
Children are hungry for a spiritual life embraced, lived and modeled by parents and society. Adults have to nurture and encourage the moral and spiritual inclinations of children and become models of morality, good conscience and good will for them. Adults tend to underestimate the need to accept responsibility for the voices of society to which they respond, accept and copy as part of their community life, since children are very skilled at absorbing the messages, stimuli and limitations of the adult world . ”
“The child is the forgotten citizen and, nevertheless, if the rulers and the pedagogues came to understand the terrible force that resides in childhood for better or worse, I think they would give priority over everything else ... All problems on humanity they depend on man himself; If man is not contemplated in his construction, the problems will never be solved. No child is a Bolshevik or a fascist or a democrat; they will all become what circumstances or the environment return to them ... .. In our day, when despite the terrible lessons of two world wars the future looms as dark as ever, I firmly believe that we must explore another field, apart from those of the economy and ideology. It is the study of man - not of the adult man, in whom every appeal is wasted. He, economically insecure, remains baffled in the whirlwind of contradictory ideas and now throws himself to one side, now to the other. Man must be cultivated from the beginning of life, when the great powers of nature are active. That is when one can hope to plan a better international understanding. ”
With the usual affection.
ONE WORLD, ONE HUMANITY
ONE WORLD, ONE HUMANITY
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Childhood. May 2012
