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Principles of Education and Ethics. 57
Karma into these unfavorable conditions as the result
of its own acts in a former life, would not only
put forth all of its energies to rise, but would be
forevermore repelled by such degrading influences
as now surround him, and flee from them as from a
pestilence.
Here we come face to face with the real problem
of education. How shall we educate? With the
children of the poor, and even with many of those
of the middle classes, the ordinary curriculum of
School and College often serves to inculcate ideas
of luxury and contempt for labor, and results, in
many instances, in idleness and dissipation. Many
parents are ambitious that their children should be
educated, in order that they may escape from, hard
work, and have an easier time in life than they have
had themselves. In morality, or ethics, the children
are taught certain precepts, or are required to recite
certain religious formula, such as the Creed or the
Catechism; they are very seldom, however, taught
unselfishness or self-conquest. The result is that
the innate perceptions of the child, which are naturally
far keener than most people are aware of,
and which invariably, unless cultivated, become
blunted with age and worldly experience, are utterly
disregarded, or they are blunted by the very system