THE
STORYTELLING
PARENT

The Arena of Ideas:

"One of the foundations of play is story telling...This imaging is the foundation of future symbolic and metaphoric thought, both concrete and formal operational thinking, higher mathematics, science, philosophy, everything we consider higher mentation or education."
--Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"Such larger abstractions as truth, honor, love, falsehood cannot be talked about in the lexicon of pictures. For 'showing of' and 'talking about' are two very different kinds of processes."
--Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

"While the fantasy is unreal, the good feelings it gives us about ourselves and our future are real, and these good feelings are what we need to sustain us."
--Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment