“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” ChildrenWisdomKnowledgeHistoryLearningAdultsManagementAverageIntelligenceEducationalPsychologicalMentalityContrastRadiantMissing YouInner ChildDistressingChildren PlayingDifferent MentalityFeeble Minds Author:Sigmund Freud
“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.” MayChildrenLittlesDoeArtistDifferencesClearCostActivityAdultsAppreciateArtisticRealmsRejectsSignificanceWillingnessConventionsContrastPsychicsNormCompulsionSymbolicCognizant Book:Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity
“Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.” ChildrenWarMightPoorMilitaryBuildingRedCrossesInternationalTerrorismBurningBombsAfghanistanContrastStarvingAfghanUs MilitaryRed Cross Author:Cynthia McKinney