“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.” HeartWholeFactsStoriesHomeBitsPiecesChildhoodEventsWhole LifeChristmasCarrieRepetitionValidityNursery Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.” ChildrenHomeRealitySchoolEducationUnited StatesTelevisionLosingCapacityWeightDrivenEnormousContactCarrieGapsBusSheerTextbooks Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey