EDUCATION
1. Ideal education provides for association of instruction and work. (412.4) 37:6.4 [2]
2. The purpose of education:
- Acquirement of skill.
- Pursuit of wisdom.
- Realization of selfhood.
- Attainment of spiritual values. (806.1) 71:7.1 [3]
3. The goals of education are:
- Insight into human relations.
- Meanings of reality.
- Nobility of values.
- Goals of living.
- Cosmic destiny. (806.2) 71:7.2 [4]
4. Ideas originate in external stimuli; ideals are born in the inner life. (1220.9) 111:4.10 [5]
5. Civilizations are unstable because they are not cosmic. They must be nurtured by the constitutive factors of science, morality, and religion. (196.1) 16:9.5 [6]