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The Concept of Emotional
Education
"He who does
not have attention in himself
and does not guard his mind,
cannot become pure in heart,
and so cannot see God.
He who does not have attention in himself
cannot be poor in spirit,
cannot weep and be contrite, nor be gentle and meek,
nor hunger and thirst after righteousness,
nor be merciful, nor a peacemaker,
nor suffer persecution for righteousness sake.”
(St. Symeon the New Theologian.)
This passage from Saint Symeon
represents an area of doctrine which can be traced back
before the time of Christ, and of which vestiges still
survive to this day. In the earlier centuries of the
Christian world, it was this which extended the range of the
Christian teaching to transform even people who had never
been directly exposed to the emotional force known as
glorification, which originally
brought the church to life,. So it was this that first gave
the institutional church its ancient role as the educator of
the emotions. Yet so much have the times changed that the
significance of these early church teachings which augmented
the gospel message is only now being rediscovered. The
historical sequence ran something like this:
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Early Greek educational methods or
paedaeia. (The
educational concerns of the time are met with, for
example, in Plato's Republic.)
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Spiritual training methods in the first millennium
of the Christian church, before its fragmentation.
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Formalised mediaeval methods of training in Western
monasticism.
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Methods used in church schools in the Second
Millennium.
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Methods used in schools such as the British public
schools and the US military academies.
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Emotional Page 2
Emotional Page 3
Emotional Page 4
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