Editorial December 31, 1949 Issue

SOME THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION

George Channing

Education is the process whereby the human so-called mind learns to yield to the divine Mind. Education goes on daily, hourly, momentarily, as a necessary consequence of every experience of every individual. It is not by any means confined to the activities of teachers and pupils in schoolrooms and college halls, although scholastic effort may contribute in varying degree to the desired result. Such contribution, it should be mentioned, depends largely on the emphasis in the thought of the teacher primarily and of the pupils secondarily upon a spiritual or a material interpretation of reality.

Human discord, frustration, defeat, would not appear formidable if the educational nature of experience were understood. If men and women recognized every inharmony as an exposure of some unspiritual concept hypnotically in consciousness and therefore as a signal to discover and use the opposing spiritual idea in the Mind of man, the educational process would be swiftly efficacious. A spiritual idea fully realized, that is, seen as real, destroys the opposite unspiritual concept and its manifestation. Since spiritual ideas are exclusively in divine Mind, or God, the discovery and utilization of them by any individual makes evident for him the spiritual fact that God is the Mind of his true selfhood.

This education is compulsory and inescapable for the individual who needs it. It is compulsory because the manifestation of unspiritual thought is so intolerable, either presently or ultimately, as to compel those who entertain it to seek the remedy. And that remedy lies in consciously embracing the spiritual truth which is the counterfact or antidote to specific unspiritual thought.

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