Wayne Dyer, in his book, Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, quotes Pablo Casals:
When will we [teach our children] what they are?
We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move.
You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if learning was about nurturing the marvel within us all throughout our lives, from conception to death? It flies in the face of the industrial foundation that our current public education system continues to hamstring us with. Who among us are ready and willing to walk away from the one-size-fits-all approach? Even tougher, who is ready to walk their child away from that which is seen by most as “acceptable” toward something they most likely have never experienced themselves and they have no idea how to be a part of?
Speak up! There is no penalty for voicing an aspiration!
Filed under: Ideas Tagged: children, Human development, learning, self esteem
