Education
Education is the spiritual connection with truth from the highest source and its consequent flow through each soul's communication system down to its earth personality for implementation. The true purpose of education is a spiritual process of unfoldment in which each person and the whole humanity gain.
New Teachings for an Awakening Humanity
You who are the parents of this new generation, listen to what this season's children have to say. They do not reject you or the principles that have guided your lives. But they know they must do what you have not yet done. Their destiny is to complete the achievement begun. Be gentle with them, these literal flowers of your love. Do not crush them beneath the ceilings of windowless schools that bury them in facts that they cannot understand without the natural light of spirit. Let them move beyond the established corridors of historical ways, into the sunlight and open air of new meaning and new experience.
Give your children the tools of your culture as you would give paint and canvas to an artist. But do not tell them what to draw. Help them learn to express themselves in terms meaningful to them and to those in the world around them. Offer them skills to help express themselves more fully. The self this generation expresses in uninhibited creativity is the Great Self, which seeks birth into your world.
The preservation of a child's native esteem is far more important than the acquisition of technical skills. Many of these little ones have not forgotten the Great Being who shines through the filter of their individuality. Your role is to help them grow in such a way that they do not forget. Assist in the incarnation of the eternal spirits who dance above their lives.
Starseed, The Third Millenium
It is the purpose of education to develop and sharpen the innate endowments of the human mind; of civilization to express them; of life experience to realize them; of religion to ennoble them; of personality to unify them.
The purpose of education should be acquirement of skill, pursuit of wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual values. Education is the business of living; it must continue throughout a lifetime so that mankind may gradually experience the ascending levels of mortal wisdom, which are:
Progress through an established educational regime does not necessarily mean intellectual progress, much less spiritual growth. Enlargement of vocabulary does not signify development of character. Growth is not truly indicated by mere products but rather by progress. Real educational growth is indicated by enhancement of values, new meanings of values, and augmented value to supreme values.
Education could help in this great spiritual renaissance if it would pay more attention to the work of teaching youth how to engage in life planning and character progression. The purpose of education should be to foster and further the supreme purpose of life, the development of a majestic and well-balanced personality. There is great need for the teaching of moral discipline in the place of so much self-gratification.
The Urantia Book
One of our immediate educational objectives must be the elimination of the competive spirit, and the substitution of cooperative consciousness. The damage done to children in the plastic and pliable years is often irremediable, and is responsible for much of the pain and suffering in later life. The effort shold be made to provide an atmosphere wherein certain qualities can flourish and emerge.
Education in the New Age
Sri Yukteswar, like many another sage, grieved at the trend of modern education. Few schools expound the spiritual laws for happiness or stress that wisdom consists in guiding one's life in awe of one's Maker. An educational system that does not present Spirit as the central Fact of man's existence is offering false knowledge.
Autobiography of a Yogi
Seek knowledge for sake of the service of the Divine.
In the Mother's Light