The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Q. Could you give us a more definite idea, a way of development of children in speech and action? A. For instance, in speech there are two faults that a child makes without knowing of the fault. One fault is that it wants to speak sometimes in the way that a child must not speak, where there is no consideration of manner. And in that way it creates disharmony. When it has spoken something in the form that ought not to be spoken in. Well, the unknown fault is that from childhood they will get into a habit of saying something which is psychologically not right, without good results. Of course, this idea is very much considered in the East. But it is an idea that must be considered wherever humanity exists. For instance, there are many words which have power behind them, there are many words which cause a bad effect psychologically. And a child in play does not consider what it says. It simply says it. It does not feel backward to speak about death, or somebody's illness, which perhaps is psychologically wrong. Besides, it is suggestible. If one child says to another, "I shall cut your head," the other perhaps takes the knife and does it.


 
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