MAGICAL THINKING

I can see that children have a power to imagine in almost magical sense as compared to the adult’s imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children’s power of imagination only in our dreams. Of course it’s awfully necessary that children not run their entire lives on the basis of such thinking; they do need to learn how to think logically. But the world will soon teach that to them, and in overabundance. We should do everything we can to make it possible for children to hang onto the power to imagine in the almost magical sense for as long as possible.