“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.” ChildrenImportantRealRealitySchoolImaginationClearImagineAirSocietyExerciseDenyContraryConcreteDetachedFreedom And Happiness Author:Paulo Freire
“The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.” PeopleWayMindChildrenStillsUseSeemsLostWalksGloryToolsContraryBelieverManageExpensesDiminishSkeptic Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.” ChildrenPlayFormTermAdultsContraryGravesContradictionConcentrationSeriousnessPlayfulness Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.” ChildrenCultureTerrorismContraryCustomsWitchDisguiseWizardsVenezuela Author:Hugo Chavez