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What Parents Face Today
spirituality. Although this is an inner quality, it is
this inner quality that has the power to better all your
external affairs.
What Parents Face Today
Parents must come to understand that their children need
a double education – a professional education
as well as spiritual training.
nce when I was in California, in the USA, I
Ohappened to meet a senior Indian immigrant
with whom I had a conversation about education. I
remarked that it was the age of education and that the
greatest need of our generation was to be educated up
to the highest standard. But my interlocutor said that
his experience in this field had been very disappointing.
He had wanted to introduce young people to higher
learning, but the result had dashed his hopes. He
opined that what was needed now was a re-conditioning
of minds rather than learning.
I said that the fault lay with the parents. For the
parents, there were only two options: either accept
whatever was going to become of their children or try
to understand them and address their minds in such a
way that what they required of them was made clear to
them. This phenomenon can be seen in every country.
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