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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Educational Links 10/14/14
“Nature Deficit Disorder” Is Making Us Sick—But These “Bioneers” Believe They Have the Cure
Rachel Carson"For the
child. . . it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are
the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions
and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the
seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare
the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused - a sense of the
beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of
sympathy, pity, admiration or love - then we wish for knowledge about
the object of our emotional response . . . It is more important to pave
the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts
that he is not ready to assimilate."
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