Development of the State

71:7.1The en­dur­ing state is founded on cul­ture, dom­i­nated by ide­als, and mo­ti­vated by ser­vice. The pur­pose of ed­u­ca­tion should be ac­quire­ment of skill, pur­suit of wis­dom, re­al­iza­tion of self­hood, and at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual val­ues.

71:7.2In the ideal state, ed­u­ca­tion con­tin­ues through­out life, and phi­los­o­phy some­time be­comes the chief pur­suit of its cit­i­zens. The cit­i­zens of such a com­mon­wealth pur­sue wis­dom as an en­hance­ment of in­sight into the sig­nif­i­cance of hu­man re­la­tions, the mean­ings of re­al­ity, the no­bil­ity of val­ues, the goals of liv­ing, and the glo­ries of cos­mic des­tiny.

71:7.3Uran­tians should get a vi­sion of a new and higher cul­tural so­ci­ety. Ed­u­ca­tion will jump to new lev­els of value with the pass­ing of the purely profit-mo­ti­vated sys­tem of eco­nomics. Ed­u­ca­tion has too long been lo­cal­is­tic, mil­i­taris­tic, ego ex­alt­ing, and suc­cess seek­ing; it must even­tu­ally be­come world-wide, ide­al­is­tic, self-re­al­iz­ing, and cos­mic grasp­ing.

71:7.4Ed­u­ca­tion re­cently passed from the con­trol of the clergy to that of lawyers and busi­ness­men. Even­tu­ally it must be given over to the philoso­phers and the sci­en­tists. Teach­ers must be free be­ings, real lead­ers, to the end that phi­los­o­phy, the search for wis­dom, may be­come the chief ed­u­ca­tional pur­suit.

71:7.5Ed­u­ca­tion is the busi­ness of liv­ing; it must con­tinue through­out a life­time so that man­kind may grad­u­ally ex­pe­ri­ence the as­cend­ing lev­els of mor­tal wis­dom, which are:

71:7.61. The knowl­edge of things.

71:7.72. The re­al­iza­tion of mean­ings.

71:7.83. The ap­pre­ci­a­tion of val­ues.

71:7.94. The no­bil­ity of work—duty.

71:7.105. The mo­ti­va­tion of goals—moral­ity.

71:7.116. The love of ser­vice—char­ac­ter.

71:7.127. Cos­mic in­sight—spir­i­tual dis­cern­ment.

71:7.13And then, by means of these achieve­ments, many will as­cend to the mor­tal ul­ti­mate of mind at­tain­ment, God-con­scious­ness.