Leading A Spiritual Life
English book, p. 51
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
What Parents Face Today spirituality. Although this is an inner quality, it is this inner quality that has the power to better all your external affairs. What Parents Face Today Parents must come to understand that their children need a double education – a professional education as wel as spiritual training. O nce when I was in California, in the USA, I happened to meet a senior Indian immigrant with whom I had a conversation about education. I remarked that it was the age of education and that the greatest need of our generation was to be educated up to the highest standard. But my interlocutor said that his experience in this field had been very disappointing. He had wanted to introduce young people to higher learning, but the result had dashed his hopes. He opined that what was needed now was a re-conditioning of minds rather than learning. I said that the fault lay with the parents. For the parents, there were only two options: either accept whatever was going to become of their children or try to understand them and address their minds in such a way that what they required of them was made clear to them. This phenomenon can be seen in every country.

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