All children's books are about ideals. Adult fiction sets out to portray and then explain the world as it really is; books for chi...ldren present it as it should be. Child readers come to them hoping for a certain amount of instruction, but chiefly for stories in which the petty restrictions of ordinary life are removed: they want to encounter people who can fly, geese that lay golden eggs, frogs that turn into princes, spaceships piloted by children, anything that measures up to their ideals of adventure and imagination. Adults, on the other hand, are more likely to want to feed the children a set of moral examples. By all means, let them have their fun, but the opportunity of providing models of ideal behaviour is not to be wasted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.... 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among families, so rich as to be above labour, the daughters are hurried through the routine of boarding school instruction, and a...t an early period introduced into the gay world; and, thenceforth, their only object is amusement.--Mark the different treatment, which the sons of these families receive. While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, they employ the lamp, to treasure up for future use the riches of ancient wisdom; or to gather strength and expansion of the mind, in exploring the wonderful paths of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life ...so that you and your descendants may live...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hear, my child, your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teaching; for they are a fair garland for your head, an...d pendants for your neck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »