…….How then should we educate our young ?

First, treat them as spirits. They are spirits, entering a physical body. That is not an easy thing for a spirit to do; not an easy thing for a spirit to get used to. It is very confining, very limiting. So the child, will cry out at suddenly being so limited. Hear this cry. Understand it. And give your children as much of a sense of ‘ unlimitedness ‘ as you possibly can.

Next, introduce them to the world you have created with gentleness and care. Be full of care – that is to say, be careful – of what you put into their memory storage units. Children remember everything they see, everything they experience. Why do you spank your children the moment they exit the womb ? Do you really imagine this is the only way to get their engines going ? Why do you take your babies away from their mothers minutes after they have been separated from the only life – form they have known in all of their present existence ? Will not the measuring and weighing and the prodding and the poking wait for just a moment while the newly born experience the safety and the comfort of that which has given it life ?

Why do you allow some of the earliest images to which your child is exposed to be images of violence? Who told you this was good for your children ? And why do you hide images of love ?

Why do you teach your children to be ashamed and embarrassed of their own bodies and their functions by shielding your own body from them, and telling them not to touch themselves in ways which pleasure them ?

Why do you place your children in schools where competition is allowed and encouraged, where being the ‘best’ and learning the ‘most’ is rewarded, where ‘ performance ‘ is graded, and moving at one’s own pace is barely tolerated ? What does your child understand from this?

Why do you not teach your children of movement and music and the joy of art and the mystery of fairy tales and the wonder of life ? Why do you not bring out what is naturally found in the child, rather than seek to put in what is unnatural to the child ?

And why do you allow your young ones to learn logic, and critical thinking and problem solving and creation, using the tools of their own intuition and their deepest inner knowing, rather than the rules and the memorised systems and conclusions of a society which has already proven itself to be wholly unable to evolve by these methods, yet continues to use them ?

Finally, teach concepts, not subjects.

Devise a new curriculum, and build it around three Core Concepts:

Awareness

Honesty

Responsibility

Teach your children these concepts from the earliest age. Have them run through the curriculum until the final day. Base your entire educational model upon them. Birth all instruction deep within them.

……...can you explain how you would teach them the three R’s ?

From the earliest primers to your more sophisticated readers, all tales, stories, and subject matter would resolve around the core concepts. That is, they would be stories of awareness, stories dealing with honesty, stories about responsibility. Your children would be introduced to the concepts, injected into the concepts, immersed in the concepts………….

From 'Converstaions with God' by Neale Donald Walsch