45. Children are born intelligent

A small story:

One boy came back from school and told his mother, 'You said the school dentist would be painless but he was not!'

His mother became worried and asked him, 'Did he hurt you?'

The boy replied, 'No, but he screamed when I bit his finger!'

Children are born intelligent. They are so spontaneous and enthusiastic. But the family, society and conventional school destroy the natural intelligence within the child with the undue importance they pay to logic, memory and competition. The price the child pays for education is too heavy. He sacrifices his priceless creativity

Yoga - Literally means 'uniting' of body-mind-spirit.

and uniqueness, and he is not even aware of it.

The other day, I read a statement on a teenager's T-shirt, 'I was intelligent until education ruined me.'

If you look at the way children are educated today, it results in a distorted development of the child. Undue importance is given to logic and analysis which are activities related to the left side of the brain. Because of this, the right side of the brain, which is related to creativity and art, is less stimulated. Fifty percent of our potential, a complete half of our brain, a whole half of our body is just waiting to express itself. Education can do wonders if it awakens to this truth. Educating through the left part of the brain is completely okay, but the right part is also equally, if not more important.

Allow your complete being to simply express itself, and you will see your natural intelligence flowering beautifully. This is what I call being integrated and fulfilled.