Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
A Education, Nonfiction, Parenting book. If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as...
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9781935191889 / 0
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If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would love the wonder with which they behold the world, and would hope that some of it might open our own eyes a little. We would love their games, and would want to play them once in a while, stirring in ourselves those memories of play that no one regrets, and that are almost the only things an old man can look back on with complete satisfaction. We would want children tagging along after us, or if not, then only because we would understand that they had... The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there, never to change, and in its constancy it reflects the eternity of God. It presents to the young mind a vast field of fascination, of war and peace, loyalty and treason, invention and folly, bitter twists of fate and sweet poetic justice. When that past is the past of one's people or country or church, then the danger is terrible indeed, because then the past makes claims upon our honor and allegiance. Then it knocks at the door, saying softly, "I am still here." And then... The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it finds strange, half hidden, robed with inaccessible light. The familiar too can be an object of wonder, but not by its familiarity: as when the hills I looked upon every morning of my youth suddenly seemed to reveal the thousands of years they were building, long before any man ever left his traces on their slopes. Even the dog at my heels, then, like the dog who wagged his tail when Tobias and he finally came home, reveals itself the...
Esolen is a poet, in the best sense, and his thoughts are always worth reading. I had trouble deciding between 3--because the facetious tone does not best suit his quality of thought, and he seems to have to struggle to sustain it in a book-length piece--or 4, for the importance and clarity of the ideas. Still, despite the tone issues,... This book made me understand better how most of my own imagination was destroyed. I think I can get some of it back, and look forward to exploring the world a lot more. The only problem is that I'm now an "adult," when I should have been a man by now. That can be fixed, too. There are two main reasons to read this book. The first is... Reading this book made me wonder why I am reading this book. In other words, this was one of few books that makes one want to put it down and go outside and live life: to touch, taste, see, explore, imagine, play, work, construct, discover. Children need reality in all its dangers, mysteries, and emotions more than they need a factory-style...
