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Title: The New Ideal In Education

Author: Nicholai Velimirovic

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

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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