The Growing Child Must Derive A Vitalizing

Someday, Maybe, There Will Exist A Well-informed, Well Considered And Yet Fervent Public Conviction That The Most Deadly Of All Possible Sins Is The Mutilation Of A Child’s Spirit; For Such Mutilation Undercuts The Life Principle Of Trust, Without Which Every Human Act, May It Feel Ever So Good And Seem Ever So Right Is Prone To Perversion By Destructive Forms Of Conscientiousness.

You See A Child Play, And It Is So Close To Seeing An Artist Paint, For In Play A Child Says Things Without Uttering A Word. You Can See How He Solves His Problems. You Can Also See What's Wrong. Young Children, Especially, Have Enormous Creativity, And Whatever's In Them Rises To The Surface In Free Play.

You Can Actively Flee, Then, And You Can Actively Stay Put.

The Sense Of Identity Provides The Ability To Experience One's Self As Something That Has Continuity And Sameness, And To Act Accordingly.

There Is In Every Child At Every Stage A New Miracle Of Vigorous Unfolding.