19 June 2011

2011 Reading

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of your Child
by
Anthony Esolen

"We are, as I've said, the first generation of human beings who will spend most of their waking hours indoors. Whether this marks the next stage of our intellectual development as a species is doubtful."

"...the premise of our educational system is that children need to be socialized into a managed world. We talk a great deal about independence, but we loathe it..."

"Recall that the imagination is a natural faculty in man. Some people make the mistake of fostering it, but it is often so powerful on its own that it will assert itself if we simply allow people to live what used to pass for an ordinary life."

1 comment:

April said...

Do you realize that 90% of the world would fight over those words? We ponder the meaning and pray for God to enlighten those who "don't get it". I love your books. Gives me new ones to find and read. To bad the library here is small. :)