Category:Education of Children
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that childhood education determines the future of both the individual and society. Because early life is highly impressionable, children must be trained from the very beginning in Kṛṣṇa consciousness through devotion, discipline, and loving care. Such education protects children from material confusion and sense gratification, while nurturing responsible, sober, and spiritually awakened human beings. When children are properly trained in devotional life, they become the strongest hope for a healthy and spiritually progressive society.
- Childhood as the Foundation of Spiritual Life: The earliest years of life shape lifelong values. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes training children in chanting, Deity worship, and devotional practices rather than material technology, so that spiritual habits become natural and joyful.
- Parental Responsibility and Proper Care: Genuine parental affection includes ensuring a child’s physical health, moral conduct, and spiritual development. Without proper nourishment, care, and responsibility for education, spiritual training cannot be effectively sustained.
- Gurukula as the Heart of Spiritual Society: Gurukula education, centered on Kṛṣṇa consciousness from early childhood, is essential for producing responsible and disciplined individuals. Śrīla Prabhupāda viewed gurukula as the most important project for securing the future of the world.
- Discipline Guided by Love: True discipline inspires obedience through affection rather than fear. Śrīla Prabhupāda advises gentle guidance, patience, and intelligence in training children, ensuring that devotion and character develop naturally.
- Safeguarding the Future of Society: Education in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not merely for personal benefit but is society’s greatest protection against moral decline, confusion, and material bondage.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Educating Children in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Protecting the Health and Innocence of Children.
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "Education of Children"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- Although he (the great devotee of God) has no attraction for his children, he cares for them and educates them to become devotees. Similarly, he speaks to his wife with affectionate words, but he is not attached to her
- As soon as they can read, that's education finished. They will understand, practical demonstration, arati, worship of the Deity, and they play mrdanga, they chant, they join Hare Krsna chanting. They are not meant for any technology
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- I am very glad to know that you have got the experience and talent as well as the desire to write Krsna conscious children's books
- I am very glad to learn that the children at Gurukula school are making good progress in their Krishna Consciousness education, that is very good news
- I am very much anxious to open schools for educating children of responsible leaders in our Krishna Consciousness way of life, especially also in India
- I have heard that there as been some beating with sticks on the children. Of course I do not know, but that should not be
- I wish to start a Gurukula Institution in Vrindaban for educating small children attached to my temple
- If a child is trained properly in Krishna Consciousness, he will never go away. That means he must have two things, love and education
- If they are not spoiled by an artificial standard of sense gratification at an early age, children will turn out very nicely as sober citizens, because they have learned the real meaning of life
- If we are able to make a whole generation of our children into fine Krsna Conscious preachers, that will be the glory of our movement and the glory of your country as well
- If we neglect somehow or other and if we lose even one Vaisnava, that is very great loss
- If we teach our children simply for sense enjoyment, how they can be spiritually advanced? The result will be confusion. Therefore in your country the hippies are there - confusion
- If we train children by developing and encouraging their propensity to love Krishna, then we shall be successful in educating them to the topmost standard. Then they shall always very happily agree to do whatever you ask them
- If you go back to Dallas school and demonstrate to the other teachers there just the proper way to instruct and discipline the students nicely, that will be a great service
- In my opinion all Gurukula students should be educated free of charge, but outside students may be charged
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- Sanskrit should be compulsory for all our children to learn, and anyone who has elementary knowledge of alphabet and grammar can begin to teach it
- So far geography and history are concerned, you may teach geography as it is, there is no harm to getting knowledge about our material earth planet
- So far history is concerned, we shall not teach the history as Darwin has given, but there is no harm to learn what is the history of your country, just like Washington was the first president, and after him came so-and-so, like that.
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- Take the children to the temple every day and bring them up in Krishna Consciousness, and when they are old enough you may send them to our new school in Dallas. There is no question of losing father, now they shall have dozens of fathers and mothers
- The father and mother should be so enlightened and educate the son in such a way that this is the last acceptance of material body. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti (BG 4.9), he may not accept again this material body
- The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has decided to introduce the gurukula system of education for the proper training of young boys in the traditional gurukula way laid down in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The modern educational institutions are different grades of slaughter houses. If you can open an ideal institution for the future children of our associates, it will be a great service
- There is no harm in coeducation in the schools and colleges, provided the boys and girls are duly married, and in case there is any intimate connection between a male and female student, they should be married properly without illicit relation
- These children are being educated from the very beginning of their life how to become responsible man. This is the idea of our gurukula. So these children should be taught
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- Yes, to make a KC coloring book for children is a very good idea for serving and for spreading KC to the young children. Please do it. It will be a great service
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not? Of course we do not always trust that these doctors maybe doing the right thing, but what can be done?
- You may show the stick, threaten, but better art is to somehow or other, even by tricking them, avoid this matter of force and induce them to obey out of loving spirit. That is success of disciplinary method
- Young children should be educated from the very beginning about God consciousness or the science of God. We had the opportunity in our childhood. My father taught
- Your study aids that you are using to help the children learn the meaning of Bhagavad-gita slokas fully seem to be alright. You must see that the meaning of the verse is in no way altered or changed. Simplification is alright but do not change anything