Just as some scholastic learning is obligatory in order that young people may become qualified to make their way in the world, so the learning of higher, more spiritual lessons is indispensable if we are to become truly fitted to play a more active and valuable part in our community and our world.
There can, however, be no schooling without a teacher, no true learning without a guide. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Human theories weighed in the balances of God are found wanting; and their highest endeavors are to Science what a child's love of pictures is to art. The school whose schoolmaster is not Christ, gets things wrong, and is ignorant thereof." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 365;
Had Christian Science not entered our lives and the Christ become our schoolmaster, many of us would doubtless 'have continued to get things wrong. But now that the right way—that is, the spiritual way—has been pointed out, there is no one to blame but ourselves if we fail to walk in it.
