Ima_Gyerekek-EN.doc
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This prayer requests blessings for children, including loving parents, security, a healthy environment, calm educators, and an education that encourages learning. It asks that children be granted free activity to learn about themselves, peers to learn from each other, and an open society that teaches cooperation rather than manipulation.
Ima_Gyerekek-EN.doc
- 1. A prayer for the children: Grant the childrenloving parents, because unconditionalacceptance and rationalrules give them integrity for life. Grant the childrensecurity, foodand a healthy environment, because bodily development is the basis of mentaldevelopment. Grant the childrengood-humouredandcalm adults, because harmony will double and triple one's spiritualstrength. Grant the childrenan educationthat encourages and supports learning, so that they come to like it, because it is throughlearning that humans can progress andascend. Grant the childrenautonomous educators,becauseit takes autonomous educators to raise autonomousindividuals who take responsibility for their ownactions. Grant the childrena lot of free activity, because that is how they learn about themselves, their environment andtheir possibilities. Grant the childrenpeers inlearning, because they canlearn better from eachother than from adults. Grant the childrenpeers ofdifferent ages, so that they may engage in activities together, becauseinnatural communitiesofchildren, the rules of society are acquiredinpractice. Grant the childrenan open, lie-free societywhichdoes not teachthem manipulation, servility and the violation of others' interests,but teaches them cooperationandfinding joint long-term interests.