Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral s...uicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's p...recepts about elbows on the table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a very important and fundamental relation between learning and personality development. . . . The two interact in a "circ...ular process." Thus, mastery of symbol systems (letters, words, numbers), reasoning, judging, problem-solving, acquiring and organizing information and all such intellectual functions are fed by and feed into varied aspects of the personality--feelings about oneself, identity, potential for relatedness, autonomy, creativity, and integration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Service ... is love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the a...ct, and creativity the result with many by-products.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, river...s grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them thr...ough. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in ...creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »