Course XLVII - Teaching 11: Children’s Education (March 4th, 1956)

Let us be prepared through prayer, and the Mother shall guide us to educate children this year Let us ask of Her: clean our minds and hearts of any preconceived idea referred to children: “if a child is good or bad, too grown up or little, or even repulsive; if those coming from the Juvenile Department or not, have such or such thing, or if of those from the Dam Village are better than those of Embalse”. All this can be true, but it does not matter in relation to our labor.
We must admit with a clean mind those that are coming, as if the Divine Mother had sent them.
We must clean us of any impurities, and our soul shall be a limpid mirror, in which the Mother may reflect Her image. So, all that a child receives shall be of Her.
We should ask of the Mother to fill us up with true love to children. It is not a love that one feels as we speak about children, or as we read a book, or as we listen to a lecture, but the real love, which is ever there, even in the presence of a dirty and rebellious boy, and sometimes even before a repulsive boy that may be shocking to us. We must be further devoted to the latter, since the Mother has sent them, and we must receive them and perform our task with them.
I tell all this not only in relation to school-teachers and principals, but also to all Daughters, because they take totally part in this task with children. In case they do not perform their tasks educating and teaching, then they work and pray for them; they take care of their clothes and of the house in which they stay, learn and are educated. All these women are Integral School-Teachers, or rather, only one Integral School-Teacher; the Mother expresses Herself through them on different phases of the work at school.
It is not only to educate the mind of a child, but also to soften his heart and soul, to give him a sense of life, and to lead him toward good.
They shall never forget these teachings. Apparently, their fruits are not visible, but the work remains there, and is made.
Let us not miss the absence of the past year, let us not think of those that shall not come next year. The point is to perform rightly our task this year, and to take all with love. We should say to ourselves: “This year I must be prepared to educate and instruct these children; this is my mission this year; next year, it is up to God”.
Let us pray. Let us ask of the Mother: Clean my mind and my heart, and prepare me for my task. Or rather: Be You my guiding power behind me. I shall be Your instrument: You shall be head and leader, and I shall be the worker. We ask of You light, understanding and love. We request Your blessing, a very especial blessing because even though my vocation is especial, I am human and nothing is of me. Give me patience, above all much patience to teach. Give me routine to be every day of the year the same Integral School-Teacher, and to be always with the same disposition, with no ups and downs. May the child close to us be able to perceive what is the God’s will in his life, to write indelibly this Will of God on his soul.