Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet the Challenges (Continued)


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Chapter 11: Progressive Development (A simple but effective guide to determine a child's spiritual maturity and basic methods to increase a child's happiness)

This chapter introduces a simple but effective tool to determine the spiritual maturity of children: the specific gravity test. People 'sink or rise in their consciousness according their specific gravity. Some natures are naturally heavy; others, naturally light.' Here J. Donald Walters discusses how to assess the specific gravity of a child as well as how to lighten a child's nature thereby increasing their happiness. It is a must read for all parents and teachers and is best read in full:

How do educate children with all different specific gravities that all have different needs without depriving any of them of the best education they can absorb? All children have different potentials depending on their nature so the key to maximising that potential is to draw the best out of each one. In this chapter practical ideas and methods are offered to help organise children in a classroom setting so they all work together to bring the best out of each other under the teachers direction.

Chapter 12 in full can be found through this link.