“If we try to make children fantasize, these fake fantasies, like the ready-made fantasies of TV, will in time drive out most of their true fantasies, the ones that come from their experience in the world and their need to make sense of it and become at home in it.” RealityFantasyLearningTvHow Children LearnAll A LieFake Fantasy Book:How Children Learn Source: How Children Learn
“With the bike right before them, they could not see how it was put together, or if they could, could not hold that knowledge in mind long enough to transfer it to paper. It seemed as if their schooling had been for so long so far removed from reality that they were no longer able to see reality, to grasp it, to come to grips with it.” RealityLearningSchoolingHow Children Learn Book:How Children Learn Source: How Children Learn
“The things we know and believe are a part of us. We feel we have always known them. Almost anything else, anything that doesn’t fit into our structure of knowledge, our mental model of reality, is likely to seem strange, wild, fearful, dangerous and impossible. People defend what they are used to even when it is hurting them.” RealityBeliefKnowledgeMentality Book:Escape from Childhood Source: Escape from Childhood
“What we do in our lives and our work is greatly infuenced by metaphors-the pictures we have in our minds about how the world works or ought to work. Often these images are more real to us than reality itself.” LifeReality Book:Learning All the Time Source: Learning All the Time