Title:  The New Ideal In Education

Author:  Nicholai Velimirovic

Release Date:  August 27, 2004 [EBook #13301]

Language:  English

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THE NEW IDEAL IN EDUCATION

AN ADDRESS GIVEN BEFORE THE LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE

On July 16th, 1916.

By
Fr. Nicholai Velimirovic, Ph.D.

Reprinted from the “FEDERAL MAGAZINE."

London
“The electrician” Printing and publishing Co., Limited.
Salisbury court, Fleet Street, E.C.

THE NEW IDEAL IN EDUCATION.

By Father Nicholai Velimirovic, Ph.D.

“Nature takes sufficient care of our individualistic sense, leaving to Education the care of our panhumanistic sense.”

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If we do not want war we must look to the children.  There is the only hope and the only wise starting point.  It is not without a deep prophetic significance that Christ asked children to come unto Him.  In all the world-calamities, in all wars, strifes, religious inquisitions and persecutions, in all the hours of human misery and helplessness, He has been asking, through centuries, the children to come unto Him.  I am sure, if anybody has ears for His voice to-day, amidst the thunderings of guns and passions and revenges, one would hear the same call:  Let the children come unto Me!—­Not kings and politicians, not journalists and generals, not the grown-up people, but children.  And so to-day also, when we ask for a way out of the present world-misery, when we in profundis of darkness to-day ask for light, and in sorrow for to-morrow ask for advice and comfort, we must look to the children and Christ.

WHY NOT KINGS?

Why does Christ not ask the kings to come to Him—­the kings, and politicians, and journalists, and generals?  Because they are too much engaged in a wrong state of things, and because they are greatly responsible themselves for such a wrong state of things, and because consequently it is difficult for them to change their ways, their hearts and their minds.  It would be very hard for Napoleon and Pitt to kneel together down before Christ and to embrace each other.  It would be almost impossible for Bismarck and Gambetta to walk together.  Not less it would be impossible for the Pope and Monsieur Loisy or George Tyrrel to pray in the same bench.  Every generation is laden with sins and prejudices.  That is the reason why Christ goes only a little way with every generation, and then He becomes tired and asks for a new generation—­He calls for children.  Christ is always new and fresh as children are.  Every generation is spoiled and corrupted by long living and struggling.