Allow children to question. Do not indoctrinate them with anything, most certainly not principles of religion. Let them think. Let them reject what they think contradicts reason and let them accept what conduces to it.
Let the creativity of children be not stifled. Let them flower into fine specimens of the human species instead of turning out into machines programmed to thinking along the line of ancient or medieval scriptural injunctions or modern-day political ideologies that are totalitarian in approach and crush the freedom of the individual person.
Let democracy of the political system truly extend to democracy in human thinking such that the best of human resource be available to solving life's problems. That is called proper child-care. The abilities that Nature has endowed a child, let them flourish in an atmosphere free of indoctrination, in a field of free play of the faculties. Teach the child only how to concentrate his mind best without in any way imposing on his or her mind any of the theological principles that come traditionally in its wake. Let freedom be for freedom to arrive at.
Written by Sugata Bose
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