Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Look at life with the eyes of a child.
Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
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