Article August 31, 1974 Issue

The Healing of Our Classrooms

RICHARD C. BERGENHEIM

If you are a teacher, why not establish a new concept of the classroom with an awareness of your place within God's creation? A reawakening to and focus on spiritual good inspire an elevated view of the students who enter our schoolrooms. An appreciation of God's completeness supplies all needs. The perception of the competence of divine Mind brings purpose, hope, and fruition to the work done in the schools.

The classroom, indeed, is made up of more than a teacher and students, more than books and a room. Many feel that the classroom is challenging; to others it is boring, irrelevant, or simply a place where one must spend a certain number of hours each day. Educational ideas, methods, and fads abound. But are they the answer? Aren't the people who make up the classroom the elements we need to understand before education becomes viable and useful? But can sociology or the psychology of human behavior or theories of education solve the problems?

Christian Science explains that an understanding of God reveals the truth of man and clarifies the laws governing his life. It reveals man as complete, whole, unified in the expression of good. There is only one kind of man, the man God created, as the Bible reveals and Christ Jesus exemplified. This man is not fragmented into groups and races—deprived, ignorant, arrogant, disturbed, affluent, intelligent, peaceful, talented. In its first chapter the Bible declares that man was created and directed by God, and given dominion "over all the earth."^{Gen. 1:26;} He is therefore God's idea, pure, spiritual, and perfect. Being an idea of God, divine Mind, the true man is governed by God's laws; and his life demonstrates the divine impetus.

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