“We” Is Most Important
– How should this reshuffling occur? Can it happen as a game or a lottery?
– It should happen arbitrarily and constantly. It can be done through a lottery or with a computer by random selection like in a slot machine. We can throw out selections of ten people per group using a meter of random numbers.
The children should understand that it doesn’t matter who is in their group. On the contrary, the more unexpected and strange the person who ends up next to me, the greater my opportunity to attune myself differently through him, to sense things differently, and to ascend.
– What if the child doesn’t want to change the surrounding environment?
– It will change anyway. What can he do about it? The machine gave out the results, and now these ten people are being replaced with ten others, and then with another ten, so there will never be repetition.
But if there is a certain period when some specific training is held, such as if something happened yesterday and today you want to discern something about it, then of course it’s necessary to keep the same group. But a few days later the group still has to be changed. It’s best to change the groups around as often as possible, and that includes the educators. A child has to feel comfortable in any society and to be able to connect with it. And everyone must influence every person correctly.
– But children don’t always match one another in their qualities. Besides, even if we mingle them, they will still spend their free time with the people who are closest to them. How should we relate to that?
– Of course, we shouldn’t intervene because they are drawn to one another according to their hobbies or because they came from the same place. They are children after all.
But this requires a creative approach from the educators. We have to show the children that ideally, you have to have an absolutely equal attitude to everyone. The world is built in such a way that we have to reach the level of total balance with everyone.
Of course, we are still far from this ideal, but we have to lead them toward it. It’s clear that this specific person is your friend and you hang out with him in your free time. The two of you help each other and want to be together, sleep next to each other, go on a trip in the same group, and so on. But at the same time, we should help them detach from one another in some way.
To an extent, a person has to be like an individualist, feeling that he is not attached to anyone. He is attached to society, but to no one in particular. This is very important because one can eclipse the other. “We” is the most important thing. Not me, and not me with my buddy. “We” are just we, a certain common superstructure over all of humanity. In principle, it is faceless. This is one common image of man.
– What you just said fundamentally differs from psychology’s approach.
– Psychology is built on encouraging a person, on giving him the egoistic energy to change within. It tells him, “Love your city, care about keeping your street clean… Love what’s yours and yourself, and respect what’s mine” meaning, “Try to play along with egoism.” In this way, psychologists try to bring a person to something more social rather than individualistic. But that won’t help. Our objective is the opposite: We have to lift a person upwards entirely.
– Should children have free time? And if yes, what for?
– Children don’t need free time. They don’t need anything. On the contrary, they are always playing games and being connected with one other. If you leave a child alone, what would he do? He will still play with someone.
– Yes, I remember how bored I was during my free time. I had nothing to do.
– Of course. It’s horrible. What are you going to do—walk in the woods in some camp? There is absolutely nothing to do. A child shouldn’t have free time, nor does he want it. A child should always be playing.