How do young children acquire knowledge?

In educating with objects the minds of the young you can by explanation and reasoning unfold the faculties—the minds of those little ones. 

Keep them in the straight radii of your own effulgence. 

Remember they are like a piece of putty—you can mould their cast in form and principle just as you desire. 

Let it be the desire of everyone to mould them in the likeness of God, the Creator. 

The more intellectual the development the more moral the habits and the more godlike in nature they become. 

Never strive through compulsion to force any obtrusive idea upon their minds. 

Allow them perfect freedom to expand that they may take in that which is to their material and spiritual benefit. 

Care should be taken that they are not influenced by minds that do not stand upon an equal basis with your own foresightedness.

—B. H. In Spirit