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very clear), they should be given some first hints at the age of
seven, and a complete explanation at fourteen, of how to do it
and that it's the sole means of being in contact with the deeper
truth of things; that all the rest is a more or less clumsy mental
approximation of something you can know directly.
The conclusion is that the teachers themselves should have at
least a sincere beginning of discipline and experience: it is not a
question of piling up books and of repeating them like that. That's
not the way to be a teacher — the whole earth is like that, let it
be like that outside if it makes them happy! As for us, we aren't
propagandists, we simply want to show what can be done and try
to prove that it must be done.
When you begin with very small children, it's wonderful! With
them, there's so little you have to do: you just have to be.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, April 5, 1967

Teachers and children
Never make a mistake.
Never get angry.
Always understand.
Understand and see clearly why this movement took place,
why that impulse, what the child's inner constitution is, which
point needs to be strengthened and brought to the fore. That's all
you have to do, and then leave them: leave them free to blossom,
just give them the opportunity to see many things, touch many
things, do as many things as possible. It's great fun. And above
all, do not try to impose on them something you think you know.
Never scold, always understand, and, if the child is capable,
explain. If he isn't capable of understanding an explanation (if you
are yourself capable of it), replace the false vibration by a true one.
But that... that's asking of the teachers a perfection they rarely
have.
But it would be very interesting to draw up a program for the

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