Master foundational knowledge through disciplined daily practice before advancing, keeping children constantly engaged and strictly accountable.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Teaching Children, Conversation — September 12, 1972, Dallas 720912R1-DALLAS [16:11 Minutes] Conv_720912R1-DALLAS Child: ‘A’ that’s a long ‘a’.
Prabhupāda: ‘O’ ‘a’ Child: ‘O’ ‘a’ Prabhupāda: Got it? Child: Yea I was learning it before with the Sanskrit teacher.
Prabhupāda: Now you do not know? Child: I know some of them now, ‘a’ ‘a’ Prabhupāda: Then write. Child: Here? It doesn’t...
Prabhupāda: You’re [indistinct]. Just write here. ‘ta’. By moving his hand, when it is perfect the next.
So you should practice for two or three hours daily and similarly each and every student should be [indistinct]. And the class will go on for three hours. Unless he’s perfect in writing the next letter should not be taught. This is the process.
So you will have to fill up this and see it to the teacher, show it to the teacher whether it is perfect or not. This is the way, similarly ABCD, 1 2 3, everything should be written and you must know this is 1, this is 2, and at the end of the class they should chant. Just like two multiplied by two equal to four, chant it. Everybody: Two multiplied by two is equal to four.
Prabhupāda: Two multiplied by three equal to six. Everybody: Two multiplied by three equal to six. Prabhupāda: Two multiplied by four equal to eight. Everybody: Two multiplied by four equal to eight. Child: Eight. Prabhupāda: Like that, up to 10. Two into two, two into three, two into four, they should learn, immediately they will say. So that when they multiply by practice immediately two and two is four. At the end of the class this should be, chant for half an hour.