Mishpetei HaRav Kook / Parashat Yitro
„Simple education begins when the child comes to some awareness; scientific education begins when he comes out into the air of the world; and faith-based education begins from the moment of creation.”From Middot HaRe'iyah
When does the age of education begin? Rav Kook writes here that it depends on which... *Education of awareness:* Some will say it refers to emotions — anger, love, disappointment, and so on. Some will say it is the stage at which he distinguishes between himself and the other; some will say at actual speech and the beginning of conversation. *Scientific education:* the child's exposure to this world. From the moment the infant is born and is placed in the world, he becomes part of it — whether he is born in a time of peace or war, in a developed place or a backward one, in an optimistic or a pessimistic family. *Faith-based education:* it is primal, even before the forming of the fetus. The Chafetz Chaim says that the education of children begins in the childhood of the parents. Even if you are children now, you are educating your future offspring...
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