Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1909 Book 05

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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ધર્મનીતિની કેળવણી.
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life; that Nature is the child's symbolic revealer of God as life in advancing evolution to higher life; that the evil in a child's action results from suppressed or misdirected good; that religion should not be associated with terrors of any kind; that the child's religious experiences should be joyous and happy; that God should be revealed as a loving father; that the child should not be made conscious of evil in its own motives in its early life; that the child's life should be kept free from formalism and hypocrisy; that no dogmatic theology should be given in words until the child has experiences that can give life and meaning to the words; that the child's mind should not be filled with meaningless maxims, mere ashes of dead virtues; that selfhood is the child's divinity and its development the great function of the home and the School; that self-hood should be made complete as a basis for the perfect unity with God and humanity; that self-activity is the process of growthi morally as well as intellectually; that right-doing not only demonstrates faith but in. creases it; and that religion cannot be communicated to or taken into the life of man as a completed thing, or by the intellectual acceptance of opinions or doctrines, but that it must be a progressive growth in feeling and thought in which community, love, life, law, reverence, gratitude, joyousness, renunciation, unselfishness, freedom, and creative activity are essential elements. *
Real Education.
A race of real children; not too wise, Too learned, or too good, . . . Simplicity in habit, truth in speech, Be these the daily strengtheners of their minds; May books and Nature be their early joy; And knowledge rightly honoured with that nameKnowledge not purchased by loss of power.
WORDSWORTH,
બેલના આ સિદ્ધાંતોને ગુજરાતીમાં ભાવાર્થે આવતા અંકમાં આપવામાં આવશે-સંજક.