The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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In helping the child to cultivate thought and imagination one may also make a mistake. Once I visited a school of thought culture. They had made a new system, and I went to see it. There were ten or twelve children standing, and the teacher said, "Look, what is there here?" There was nothing but a plain board before them. One child says, "A lily." The teacher says "All right." To another child he says, "Look, what is here?" The other child looks and says, "A red rose." The teacher is satisfied. And to the third child he says, "See, what is here?" The child says, "It is a pink rose", and again the teacher is satisfied. And then he asks another child to tell what is there, and the child says, "I do not see anything." I thought to myself, "He is the one who has some sense, for he did not tell a lie.'


 
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