Kabbalah on Education

Kabbalah comes to the rescue to today’s education and parenting crisis

Hyperactivity is a natural phenomenon in the new generation of children.

About 80% – 90% of children today are hyperactive. Many of them are prescribed Ritalin. Parents are told, “Don’t bring your child to school if you don’t give him Ritalin.” It has become almost a prerequisite at schools.

But this is certainly wrong. Kabbalah explains that people change from one generation to another because our desire constantly grows. People in the new generation have greater desires than those in the previous generation. Hence, they develop new technologies, society and thereby humanity advances. For this reason every generation is greater than the one preceding it.

Today we have reached a special generation where the ego has leapt to such a height that we are incapable of using it in the right way. We don’t understand children, so instead of understanding them, we want to calm them, as if to stop them, to chain them down with Ritalin. But it only stops a person and doesn’t let him develop.

It is not that a particular child is hyperactive. It would be one thing if it was one or two children, but today 80-90% of the children experience this phenomenon. So it isn’t an exception at all. This is what the generation is like, and we want to put it in shackles, to put it in prison.

A child has to run, a child has to jump, a child has to be “hyperactive.” He has to bring out his energy, his desire in order to develop. And if we put restrictions on him, if we medicate him, we will certainly harm him both physically and mentally.

If it is a prevalent phenomenon, we must approach it delicately, as something natural and necessary for development. We have to admit to ourselves that we don’t know how to deal with such children, how to calm them down, place them in schools and set limits. Regardless, Ritalin is not the correct approach to it.

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