“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.” MindChildrenStillsAmericaYoungGoalImaginationEducationThirdsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOur SocietyClassroomYoung MindsGreat SocietyThird Place Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?” ThinkingFirstsWellsMightTodayImaginationMemoriesChildhoodEssentialsAdultsRootsOur ChildrenExtremesInstanceRadicalFedsProfessionalismEccentricity Author:Edmund White
“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?” PeopleWorldNeedsHumansHeartChildrenArtSoulPlayRealityYoungFoundImaginationGriefSituationAcceptingVisionClassSupportRichDevelopmentImportanceOur ChildrenInstrumentsPaintLibraryAvailableMathConsiderationCanvasHuman HeartOrchestraOutletsSolaceStarksChorusArt ClassStark Reality Author:Barbra Streisand
“Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.” ThinkingWellsChildrenTurnsEvilHopeNamesCausesImaginationOur ChildrenThis LifeThoughtfulElsewhereOur ThoughtsVengeanceBetter Life Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.” ShouldMayChildrenLittlesStillsHelpingHandsValuesImaginationStyleBearsCircumstancesTasteSkillsAdultsShould HaveOur ChildrenEnvironmentalInsightYour ChildrenSustainabilityImpressedResemblanceAffluentLife StyleAcquiring Knowledge Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.” ChildrenCharacterDreamBornImaginationOur ChildrenSensesImmortalityPeculiar Author:George R. R. Martin
“You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.” IfsKnowsWayMeanChildrenRunningHateImaginationDogOur ChildrenAssumingYour ChildrenNeighborhood Author:Benjamin Carson
“If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.” IfsChildrenSchoolReadingFatherHeavenImaginationOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCurvesInstillLove Of Reading Author:Julie Andrews
“Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.” ThinkingChildrenHelpingFilmImaginationUniqueOur ChildrenStorytellingYour ChildrenBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Jeph Loeb
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.” ChildrenFacesDiesImaginationDealsQualityFantasyParticularDependsExerciseHarderStrongerOur ChildrenStrangerAliensPermanentImmortalityInsultGuaranteesParenthoodNegativityDefiningCatapults Book:Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.” WayBelieveHumansChildrenFormI BelieveImaginationOne ThingSourceAchievementOur ChildrenEducate Author:Ken Robinson