Je viens de retrouver un cahier de notes en anglais de Swami ji, écrit en Inde en 81.
When a child asks for guidance, throw as much light as possible and allow the child to decide. The effort should be to encourage the child to find out, experiment. The child should be given the three "L" ; Love, Light and Liberty. Liberty is the most important of the three because adults generally impose themselves on the child and do not allow it to grow. The teacher or the parent should never impose himself on the child or try to make him conform. The child should not be made an automaton. Do not be afraid of the child making a mistake. It is only when you commit a mistake that you come into contact with reality.
If a child is prone to lying, let it die and understand what a lie is and where it leads to. The child should be free to experiment and convince itself. Better it makes a mistake than puts up an appearence. The function of the educator is, therefore, to encourage the child to experiment and to draw him out.
Once a child is convinced yhat you do not mean it harm and that you are for its interest and not against, it will confide in you. Explain as much as you like, that this will be the result if you do it this way, and that, if you do it the other way. Then allow the child to do as it pleases. Its choice must be honoured. Then it will be convinced that what you indicated was indeed true. When this experience is repeated, the child's confidence in you gets strengthened. It now knows that it can rely on you. It will, in future, more readily take your advice.
A suivre.
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