Education Comes First
by Jim Johnston (Email: jimj12@comcast.net)
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This synopsis of my article, "Education Comes First," was written as a news release by North American Precis Syndicate and published in over 600 newspapers:
Parents can help their children to be self-taught, "God"-taught, by actual intuition. Education should be a method to draw out and develop from the child the character, the faculties, the qualities, the aptitudes, and other potentialities that are latent in the child. The method of accomplishing this was first proposed by Harold W. Percival, a writer on educational and philosophical subjects.
Early in the life of a new, growing body, the conscious Self begins to make psychic adjustments to thinking, feeling, and desiring, the story explains. Influenced by physical senses, the child gradually identifies him or herself completely with the body and loses touch with true, eternal identity.
Percival shows how parents can use this opportunity to help their children keep open the channel of communication with the "higher Self" and draw out inherent Self-knowledge. By this method, the parent is prepared to give proper answers to significant questions (e.g., "Where did I come from?") and to put special questions to the child.
If the conscious Self is helped by parents in early childhood to revive the child's memory of "where I came from," the child's thinking will be centered on his or her self instead of on the body.
That conscious Self in any human who can discover the inner Light, especially from childhood, will open to the world the source of knowledge great beyond the most exalted dreams of humans.
"Education Comes First" is an article that gives an introductory, paraphrased summary of Percival's view on educating children. The article was published in the Spring 1993 issue of "The Word" magazine and is now on the web and available to be read online for free (click on "Article: Education Comes First" at the top of this page on the right). Or the article may be purchased directly from The Word Foundation's order page (http://www.thewordfoundation.com/a-order.htm) and buy The Word Series II Volume II for $35, which contains the article in the Spring 1993 issue as mentioned above.
For a complete description of Percival's method, please refer to his book, Man and Woman and Child, which may be purchased from The Word Foundation (http://www.thewordfoundation.com/b-Man_and_Woman_and_Child.htm) for $14.00. It can also be read online for free on The Word Foundation's website.