Real educational growth is indicated by enhancement of ideals, increased appreciation of values, new meanings of values, and augmented loyalty to supreme values. [1] The mortal career, the soul’s evolution, is not so much a probation as an education. [2] Unless a free people are educated—taught to think intelligently and plan wisely—freedom usually does more harm than good. [3] It is not so much what we learn in this first life; it is the experience of living this life that is important. [4] Education of public opinion is the only safe and true method of accelerating civilization. [5]
A personality can look before it leaps and can therefore learn from looking as well as from leaping. A nonpersonal animal ordinarily learns only by leaping. [6] Intellectual deficiency or educational poverty unavoidably handicaps higher religious attainment. [7]
Spiritual progress dependent on mental expansion and unfailingly delayed by intellectual retardation. But this does not mean that spiritual evolution is dependent on education, culture, or wisdom. [8]
In a progressive civilization education must be compulsory. [9] The household fire, which was attended by the mother or eldest daughter, was the first educator, requiring watchfulness and dependability. [10] First schools were clubs of unmarried men, women. [11] The schools of the Planetary Prince contained: [12]
Adam and Eve children attended their own schools during four years until they were sixteen, the younger being taught by the elder. The schools, in fact every activity of the Garden, were always open to visitors. [13] The entire purpose of the western school system of the Garden was socialization. [14] Educational methods of Sethites have never since been surpassed. [15] Chinese of even 6,000 years ago were keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth. [16]
Jesus began his formal education in the synagogue schools at the age of seven. For three years—until he was ten—he attended the elementary school of the Nazareth synagogue. [17] Jesus’ earliest training, aside from that of the home hearth, had to do with a reverent and sympathetic contact with nature. [18] The most valuable part of Jesus’ early education was secured from his parents in answer to his thoughtful and searching inquiries. [19]
But his real education—that equipment of mind and heart for the actual test of grappling with the difficult problems of life—he obtained by mingling with his fellow men. [20] At the Capernaum synagogue he found many new books in the library chests, and he spent at least five evenings a week at intense study. [21]
Education was compulsory for Jews in Jesus times. [22] Pharisees believed untaught people accursed. [23] Jew’s custom was to sit while teaching. [24] The apostles had not been put through the same educational curriculum. [25] The apostles spent a period in which they studied the hebrew scriptures for 3 hours every night in the synagogue. [26] John Mark was wisely sent to public school. [27]
Education is compulsory in the most developed continental nation in a neighbor planet. [28] In this nation exists ten regional schools of statesmanship, concerning responsibilities in administration. [29]
In continental nation it is expected that the most valuable part of a child’s education and character training will be secured from his parents and at home, and fathers devote almost as much attention to child culture as do mothers. [30]
The effective technique in all forms and phases of teaching is saying “Come”—“come with me; I will show you the way.”. [31] Home building should be the center and essence of all educational effort. [32] Experience gives conceptual capacity to comprehend many-sided problems. [33]
Education has too long been localistic, militaristic, ego exalting, and success seeking; it must eventually become world-wide, idealistic, self-realizing, and cosmic grasping. [34]
Education is the business of living; it must continue throughout a lifetime so that mankind may gradually experience the ascending levels of mortal wisdom. [35] Educational pressure is only negatively helpful in that it may aid in the prevention of disastrous experiences. [36] The spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the material memory mold. [37] The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner. [38] Teachers must be free beings, real leaders, to the end that philosophy, the search for wisdom, may become the chief educational pursuit. [39] Before training citizens in the highly specialized techniques of earning a living, they should be trained in one or more methods of commonplace labor. [40] There is great educational value in mingling with diverse groups of personalities, orders very different from one’s own fellows. [41] Wise fathers carefully plan for the education and adequate training of their sons and daughters. [42]
Jesus recognized that it was necessary for most men to devote themselves to the mastery of some vocation, but he deplored all tendency toward overspecialization, toward becoming narrow-minded and circumscribed in life’s activities. [43] Jesus' method of child training was the positive injunction to do good in the place of the older Jewish method of forbidding to do evil. [44]
Universe is one vast school. [45]
The entire ascendant plan of mortal progression is characterized by the practice of giving out to other beings new truth and experience just as soon as acquired. [46] Each unit of the ascendant life is a veritable training school for the stage of existence just ahead. [47] The superuniverse regime is not the same for all ascending mortals. They receive the same general education, but special groups and classes. [48] Morontia progressors learn languages much as we do here. [49]
On the first mansion world it is the practice to teach the less advanced students by the parallel technique; that is, in one column are presented the more simple concepts of mota meanings, and in the opposite column citation is made of analogous statements of mortal philosophy. [50]
The Nebadon educational system provides for your assignment to a task and then affords you opportunity to receive instruction as to the ideal and divine method of best performing that task. [51]
All the way in to Havona you enact the role of a pupil-teacher, constantly acquiring added knowledge and continuously giving out to others the wisdom and experience. [52]
All the way in to Paradise we the ascending pilgrims pursue our studies in the practical schools of applied knowledge—actual training in really doing the things we are being taught. [53] The glorified mortals of the Paradise Corps of Finality are ascendant beings trained to limits of capacity. [54]
Paradise philosophers teach by every possible method of instruction, including the higher graph technique of Havona and certain Paradise methods of communicating information, a high speed method. [55] Inspired Trinity Spirits teach superconsciously. [56]
The keynote of the whole educational system should be character acquired by enlightened experience. [57] Education should be a technique of learning and discovering the better methods of gratifying our natural and inherited urges. [58] Eternal adventure should be supreme study. [59] We are offered a graduated opportunity to master the details of the operation and administration of the grand universe. [60] Good social environment and proper education are indispensable soil and atmosphere for getting the most out of a good inheritance. [61] The purpose of education should be acquirement of skill, pursuit of wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual values. [62] The purpose of all education should be to foster and further the supreme purpose of life, the development of a majestic and well-balanced personality. [63] The higher a creature’s education, the more respect he has for the knowledge, experience, and opinions of others. [64]
The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. [65] The chief object of education is to make every pupil a self-supporting citizen. [66] The purpose is to seek truth as well as fact, expand soul as well as mind. [67]
Blindness by confusion of complex learning. [73] Mankind precipitated to confusion by overteaching. [74] The improvement in education has not kept pace with the expanding social structure. [75] Caligastia an Lucifer, with a maximum of intelligence and a vast experience in universe affairs, went astray—embraced sin. [76] What we fail to learn here we must learn hereafter. [77] Without e., freedom usually does more harm than good. [78]
See also: UB 71:7.