The New Ideal in Education / An Address Given Before the League of the Empire on July 16th, 1916

Reprinted from the FEDERAL MAGAZINE.
LONDON THE ELECTRICIAN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED. SALISBURY COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.


By Father Nicholai Velimirovic, Ph.D.
Nature takes sufficient care
of our individualistic sense,
leaving to Education the care
of our panhumanistic sense .
Ladies and Gentlemen,
If we do not want war we must look to the children. There is the only hope and the only wise starting point. It is not without a deep prophetic significance that Christ asked children to come unto Him. In all the world-calamities, in all wars, strifes, religious inquisitions and persecutions, in all the hours of human misery and helplessness, He has been asking, through centuries, the children to come unto Him. I am sure, if anybody has ears for His voice to-day, amidst the thunderings of guns and passions and revenges, one would hear the same call: Let the children come unto Me!—Not kings and politicians, not journalists and generals, not the grown-up people, but children. And so to-day also, when we ask for a way out of the present world-misery, when we in profundis of darkness to-day ask for light, and in sorrow for to-morrow ask for advice and comfort, we must look to the children and Christ.