Creativity Stands At The Center Of All

Parents Ought, Through Their Own Behavior And The Values By Which They Live, To Provide Direction For Their Children. But They Need To Rid Themselves Of The Idea That There Are Surefire Methods Which, When Well Applied, Will Produce Certain Predictable Results. Whatever We Do With And For Our Children Ought To Flow From Our Understanding Of And Our Feelings For The Particular Situation And The Relation We Wish To Exist Between Us And Our Child.

Fairy Tales Are Loved By The Child Not Because The Imagery He Finds In Them Conforms To What Goes On Within Him, But Because--despite All The Angry, Anxious Thoughts In His Mind To Which The Fairy Tale Gives Body And Specific Content--these Stories Always Result In A Happy Outcome, Which The Child Cannot Imagine On His Own.

Although We Like To Think Of Young Children's Lives As Free Of Troubles, They Are In Fact Filled With Disappointment And Frustration. Children Wish For So Much, But Can Arrange So Little Of Their Own Lives, Which Are So Often Dominated By Adults Without Sympathy For The Children's Priorities. That Is Why Children Have A Much Greater Need For Daydreams Than Adults Do. And Because Their Lives Have Been Relatively Limited They Have A Greater Need For Material From Which To Form Daydreams.

Television Captures The Mind But Does Not Liberate It. A Good Book At Once Stimulates And Frees The Mind.

No Longer Can We Be Satisfied With A Life Where The Heart Has Its Reasons Which Reason Cannot Know. Our Hearts Must Know The World Of Reason, And Reason Must Be Guided By An Informed Heart.