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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.

Plato--who May Have Understood Better What Forms The Mind Of Man Than Do Some Of Our Contemporaries Who Want Their Children Exposed Only To "real" People And Everyday Events--knew What Intellectual Experience Made For True Humanity. He Suggested That The Future Citizens Of His Ideal Republic Begin Their Literary Education With The Telling Of Myths, Rather Than With Mere Facts Or So-called Rational Teachings.

Creativity Stands At The Center Of All Education.

If We Hope To Live Not Just From Moment To Moment, But In True Consciousness Of Our Existence, Then Our Greatest Need And Most Difficult Achievement Is To Find Meaning In Our Lives.

The Only Effective Way To Help Well-intentioned, Intelligent Persons To Do The Best They Can In Raising Children Is To Encourage And Guide Them Always To Do Their Own Thinking In Their Attempts At Understanding And Dealing With Child-rearing Situations And Problems, And Not To Rely Blindly On The Opinions Of Others.