Wisdom of Dr. Seuss. The kind of nonsense that children love and adults never outgrow.
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Wisdom of Dr. Seuss
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The kind of nonsense that children love and adults never outgrow
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“What’s wrong with kids having fun reading without being preached at”
Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel
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Effective tales that foster moral imagination
• empathy
• “childness”: vulnerability, immediacy, openness & neediness
• moralism
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The child’s openness to constructing a world is not defiant or even subversive, as some
parents might suggest, but rather reflective of the child’s natural narrative perspective
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We never outgrow childness
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Cannot avoid having troubles nor is there even a simple solution to our troubles
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We have freedom to think what we want and go where we want
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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The immediacy of childness that is a prelude to wonder
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Dependency must be included in any definition of what it means to be human even in adulthood
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Faithfulness changes things
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Sweet morality tales from silly rhymes and nonsensical stories
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Yertle the Turtle
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Provoke the moral imagination of children “who have ears to hear”