Ten Ways to Destroy Your Child’s Imagination Compendium of Posts
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Following are links to all my posts on Ten Ways, which themselves contain links to the book club links.
Introduction: Books & Children
Introductory Chapter: Gradgrind, without the facts
Method 1: Keep Your Children Indoors as Much as Possible
or, They Used to Call It “Air”
Method 2: Never Leave Children to Themselves
or, If Only We Had a Committee
Method 3: Keep Children Away from Machines and Machinists
or, All Unauthorized Personnell Prohibited
Method 4: Replace the Fairy Tale with Political Cliches and Fads
or, Vote Early and Often
Method 5: Cast Aspersions on the Heroic and Patriotic
or, We Are All Traitors Now
Method 6: Cut All Heroes Down to Size
or, Pottering with the Puny
Method 7: Reduce All Talk of Love to Narcissism and Sex
or, Insert Tab A into Slot B
Method 8: Level Distinctions between Man and Woman
or, Spay and Geld
Method 9: Distract the Child with the Shallow and Unreal
or, The Kingdom of Noise
Method 10: Deny the Transcendent
or, Fix Above the Heads of Men the Lowest Ceiling of All
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