Education

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EDUCATION

1. Ideal education provides for association of instruction and work. (412.4) 37:6.4

2. The purpose of education:

  1. Acquirement of skill.
  2. Pursuit of wisdom.
  3. Realization of selfhood.
  4. Attainment of spiritual values. (806.1) 71:7.1

3. The goals of education are:

  1. Insight into human relations.
  2. Meanings of reality.
  3. Nobility of values.
  4. Goals of living.
  5. Cosmic destiny. (806.2) 71:7.2

4. Ideas originate in external stimuli; ideals are born in the inner life. (1220.9) 111:4.10

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

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