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EDUCATION

1. Ideal education provides for association of instruction and work. (412.4) 37:6.4

2. The purpose of education:

1. Acquirement of skill.
2. Pursuit of wisdom.
3. Realization of selfhood.
4. Attainment of spiritual values. (806.1) 71:7.1

3. The goals of education are:

1. Insight into human relations.
2. Meanings of reality.
3. Nobility of values.
4. Goals of living.
5. Cosmic destiny. (806.2) 71:7.2

4. Ideas originate in external stimuli; ideals are born in the inner life. (1220.9) 111:4.10

5. Civilizations are unstable because they are not cosmic. They must be nurtured by the constitutive factors of science, morality, and religion. (196.1) 16:9.5