Aware children learn better through observing than by studying. Study merely develops the intellect and conceited pride. But observing is different; it is a pro­cess of discovery.

This kind of “learning” awakens the observer to what he has “forgotten.” It reminds him of what is familiar, something he once knew in Paradise.

Conventional rote learning is a dangerous, dehu­manizing, mechanical process. The genius of Albert Einstein did not come out of learning; it was born through revelation. We all must rediscover how to dis­cover for ourselves.

Genuine discovery leads to new horizons of discovery. It is the root of independence; all else is “out-dependence.”

The moment they discover that they can literally teach themselves, there is no stopping children from growing and learning in leaps and bounds. Personally, I have learned more by “accident” in a few years than most people learn in a lifetime of effort.

Man was created to worship his Creator, to marvel at the wonder of his works. To wonder and appreciate everything in life in the special way the Good Lord intended, means to grow; to grasp the essence of God by being awakened, through His creations, to Him as the Creator.

It is imperative for you to teach your child to observe life, to stand back from being absorbed in a mere rote-learning system, so that he might realize for himself the very same thing others try to teach him. That is how understanding can also become intellectual knowledge.

With understanding, one develops a deep apprecia­tion of the principles of life and grasps the Creative Power behind creation. Such is the nature of wonder, awe, worship; and the reward of it is life. Developed to the highest degree, it becomes Eternal Life.

"Man was created to worship his Creator, to marvel at the wonder of his works."

Every ego-maniac God-imitator tries hard to create for the sole purpose of being looked to with awe and wonder. We all do things to bring attention to our­selves, as if to say, “Look at me! Look at what I did!” And from our stage we reward those “special” people we seduced, who think we are the great god, with our approval.

The imposter fears understanding. How can under­standing and appreciation of creation and Creator co­exist with egotism? They cannot, for immediately we would realize the folly of pride.

Most people are at war with understanding; they simply don’t want to realize for themselves—and neither do they want you to realize. For them, knowledge is a weapon against understand­ing; a way to deceive, mislead and confuse.

There is a secret war going on inside us all, and the appeal of knowledge lies at the root of it.

Pride rejects the simplicity of understanding. Without understanding, you see, we forget the Truth of God to think of our­selves as gods. But we are ignorant “gods,” devoid of natural, intuitive, living knowledge concerning our­selves and the true purpose of life.

To know ourselves as gods, we are drawn down into the pit of learning. All learning ever does is envelope our conceit with facts; for the more we learn in our pride, the more we think we really are.

Such learning is only a different form of ignorance, a way of escaping from understanding into the knowledge from which pride evolves.

Because rote learning is prideful, it is painful. Because it is painful, children must be coerced to learn. But true learning is always a pure joy because it is an adventure in discovering, in growing, and because a good teacher is a guide and a patient example.