When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the difference between simply imparting knowledge to children and teaching them how to think for themselves.
Neale Donald Walsch's quote highlights the importance of nurturing wisdom in children rather than merely providing them with knowledge. Knowledge often involves rote learning or the transmission of facts, whereas wisdom empowers children to discern their own truths and make informed decisions based on their experiences and understanding. This approach fosters critical thinking and personal development, allowing children to grow into thoughtful individuals who can navigate the complexities of life.
In practice
In a parenting seminar discussing the importance of independent thinking.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
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