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“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“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.”

Children Important Real Reality School Imagination Clear Imagine Air Society Exercise Deny Contrary Concrete Detached Freedom And Happiness

Author:Paulo Freire

“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.”

“The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.”

Should Heart Children Littles Doe Christ Imagination Mystery Kings Fit Leap

Book:Home Education

Source: Home Education

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”

Ifs Years Children Grows Born Imagination Exercise Blessed Cease Muscles Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

Author:Walt Disney

“A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.”

Mind Children Stills America Young Goal Imagination Education Thirds Our Children Your Children Our Society Classroom Young Minds Great Society Third Place

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.”

Children Born Imagination Blessed Pale Vivid Vivid Imagination Children Imagination Magic Kingdom

Author:Walt Disney

“As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.”

Thinking Heart Children Imagination Curiosity Anything Is Possible Newness Newness Of Life

Author:Yehuda Berg

“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”

Children Book Wanted Imagination My Own Company Lonely Imaginary Solitary Books And Movies Lonely Child

Book:Screening history

Source: Screening history

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.”

Children Reading Imagination Powerful Our Lives Essentials Laughter And Love Love And Laughter

Author:Malachy McCourt

“Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.”

Men Children Self Running Joy Parent Imagination Fantasy Environment Modern Conditions Fine Seeking Self Respect Modern Man

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.”