Educations in the mode of passion, ignorance and impersonal educations are wrongs ways of education. They take place because parents consider the child their own belonging. Which means - parents consider a child as their own part, child does not belong to himself but to us. When person thinks like this he won’t be able to educate a child properly, he has no chance. False ego of a child will go against the will of parents. This happens automatically whether we want it or not.

Now, let’s see which the results of each type of education are:

 Education in passion appears when parents sincerely think that creating interest for material things in their child will make him to do many things but if they do not interest him in material things then he won’t do anything. In whole such conceptions comes out when there is no desire of communication with the child, keeping contact with him and the main thing is to get something back from him. The personality of a child is not so important for parents but only the thing which will child do or do not do. For example, there is goal to make the child to perform his homework. How to make him to do that? The easiest way is to say to him that he will get this and that if he does his homework. Isn’t it? In this case parents are not interested in the personality of a child but in those thing which will child do. This education is in the mode of passion.

Education in ignorance is possible when parents think that they can overpower the personality of a child. The conception itself – I can force other one to obey to me – is ignorance. Usually such parents do as like the next: “Because you are my son you belong to me and you won’t run away from me as like my wife cannot do so. These are all mine. Because of that I can do whatever I want with these people. If for example, son does not understand something then one can beat him, say cruel words, or punish in some other ways because he did not yet grew up yet so that be able to answer to me.” This is simple ignorance about the spiritual nature of living beings. But each child mine or yours is a separate personality who somehow came to us by the force of karma – fate. And we have particular duties before him. If we do not perform those duties then we will also get the similar fate which we created for a child. In which situation we keep a child in that situation we will live ourselves in next life. For parents a child is a representative of God but he is yet small who is not able to protect himself. As how we behave with child in present day similarly we will live in the future. But rarely do we think of this. Usually different thoughts come to our mind: why my husband is so bad with me, why everyone dislikes me. We have to look of how we take care of those who depend on us. And then result will be seen. We will see why things happen so.

Translated from a Russian book written by Devotees.