Parenting & Children's Education: Short Sayings

·      Ideally, a child should be brought up with close exposure to one or more animal as a family pet. They will then have greater chances of being spared the horrors of anthropocentrism and will also likely have greater concern for the Creation as a whole. A child who grows up with some or the other animal as a pet is specially blessed.

·      One should excel in at least one form of art or other such creative activity. Ideally, one should start this when one is still young.

·      Parenting is not just material provision.

·      Teach your child that each experience is for them a potential learning opportunity.

·      Encourage your child to dream. Listen to their dreams. Take a genuine and deep interest in their dreams. Dream along with them.

·      To expect schools to teach children things that their parents ought to teach them is to abdicate one’s parental responsibilities, with serious harm for children and for relations between children and their parents.

·      Not every person who is biologically capable of having a child is fit for being a good parent.

·      Only if you are willing to invest a good amount of your time, in addition to money, for your child should you seek to become a parent.

·      If you neglect your children when they need you, when they grow up and you become old and you need them, don’t complain or blame them if they neglect you in turn.

·      It is never too late to work consciously to overcome, or at least mitigate, the deleterious effects of unwholesome parenting.

·      Some parents take more interest in their pastimes and pets than their progeny.

·      Children should be reared on more music and less maths.

·      A good parent is not only a provider but also a guide.

·      If as an adult you still regard one or both of your parents as your best role model, you are possibly very blessed.

·      The quality time you give your children may be much more precious for them than the things you give them.

·      Praise your child every now and then if you want them to flourish.

·      Parents should begin to gradually groom their children for their future adult roles and not treat them as if they are going to be children forever.

·      How many practical life-skills has your child learnt from you?

·      If you still spoon-feed your child long after you ought to have stopped, as an adult they may find it very difficult to feed themselves—i.e., to navigate life.

·      To expect schools to do the work that only parents should do and are capable of doing is being very irresponsible.

·      Parents often cause the sins of their own parents to be visited upon their own children.

·      Elderly people possess a treasure-trove of wisdom, born from living years on this planet, which younger generations can gain immensely from if they care to access it and if the elderly care to share it with them.

·      An educational system that teaches you what to think, not how to think, is a recipe for stupidity.

·      Compelling a child to undergo 15-18 years of schooling, and then to go on to college and beyond for some more years, is, generally speaking, absurd, to put it mildly.

·      A schooling system that does not teach a child even to do simple practical and useful things like peeling an onion or treating a minor cough is more than just harmful.

·      A schooling system that trains you not to face life but simply to face a set of examinations, year after year, is perverse.

·      A schooling system wherein essentially what a student knows about their teachers is their ability to teach a fixed body of information in the form of a prescribed syllabus can be very debilitating, for both students and their teachers.

·      Artificial Intelligence may result in furthering Natural Stupidity in at least some cases.

·      Be a student life long.

·      You can’t be a good teacher if you aren’t an enthusiastic learner.

·      Know, and teach your children to know, that economy of words is a fine art.

·      Know, and teach your children to know, that work as such is ennobling. It is a blessing, not a drudgery.

·      Know, and teach your children to know, that thought is a powerful force.

·      Endless creativity is an attribute of the Creator. Be, and also encourage your children to be, creative, just as the Creator is.

·      By ‘creativity’ is meant what one can do to add to the stock of goodness in the world, including to the process of the evolution of Universal Consciousness. Know, and teach your children to know, that creativity, understood in this sense, is a defining feature of a life well lived.