A Rich Heritage

GENTLE all-round upbringing is helped and often eased by folk tales and similar stories.

Handy folks find out how not to risk their lives. Pretty much can be helped if your neighbours and family refrain from trying to have you maimed and killed. Good metaphors could help against it.

Freak-looking tales that hardly mar innocent young ones can be all right, even if they carry existential, important overtones - as long as grown-ups above them don't start to shout and strike with fiendish intent.

We host many sorts of tales with such fine-looking ends in view.

It is fit for the directed attention of growing ones to be focused on many balanced and organised actions or events at first; then on basic images; and next on main ideas that help one to deal with or manage current events and also prepare for future ones. Rudolf Steiner concepts that formed and go into Waldorf Education, adhere to just such principles of learning.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. [With Albert Einstein (1879-1955)]

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. [Albert Einstein]




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