NEW AGE EDUCATION

How does an adult come into being? He does not spring into life by a miracle! He is the result of years of hard work, of patient care, of study and practice. And who labors so patiently to create a man? It is the child. 

The adult is a procreator but the child is a creator. If the child is raised in a conducive atmosphere under good conditions he will create a being that is good, healthy and fine. However, if the child encounters difficulties and obstacles, the being he creates may be distorted.

As parents and teachers we have to understand that children are active rather than passive learners. Too much direct teaching and training from an adult can be an obstacle rather than a help to a child’s development.  

The child has real constructive energy and unknown powers of development within him. A child’s mind can be likened to the vast galaxy of planets in the Milky Way. Every new scientific discovery made in the planetary system has always been there all the time, but no one recognized its existence until it is discovered by the latest technology. The same goes to a child. The children’s constructive energy has existed all the time. Realizing the constructive forces in the child’s nature will make us see him in a new light.

As parents and educators we have to realize that we have a great role in the development of young children. Sometimes as parents or educators we tend to devote more of our attention to the mistakes that our children make. All of a child’s great achievements get hidden behind a few small errors! And those errors are often the result of adult interference and failure to understand! So, we must change this attitude about errors. “To err is Human.” We shall never understand the child by focusing on mistakes and errors. We as parents and educators must see the great achievement, the miracle. Then only we can understand how we can help, and not hinder, the work of the child. Our educational system will then be planned to give this help so that the potential powers of the child at birth may be developed to the fullest. 

The New Age Education must aim at understanding and helping natural development, not on imparting information and enforcing morality. This approach is embodied in the Montessori Method of Education. It is not based on the preconceived theories of an educator. It is based on scientific methods of observation and experimentation on the study of young children. The results were so entirely unexpected, so sensational, that the whole world was amazed—all ideas about children and the right way to teach them were turned upside down.

At Young Genius Readers, we adopt such an approach so as to develop the fullest potential in every child. It is not the method of teaching that results in great achievements in a child. Rather, it is observation in the absence of direct teaching that reveals the nature of the child and his astonishing potentials. 

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