One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
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.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.