Education from Before Birth to Maturity

Many parents over the years have found this elucidation of how a child develops of immense help. Inayat Khan, founder of the International Sufi Movement, writes beautifully of the child's soul being like a photographic plate which picks up impressions from all around him. His ideas about educating the child are directed at parents themselves, feeling as he does that no school, no matter how advanced, can usurp the parents' role.

Published 1989