Any representation of God produces accordingly. Joseph Chilton Pearce More Quotes by Joseph Chilton Pearce More Quotes From Joseph Chilton Pearce We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world. Joseph Chilton Pearce growing-up learning children What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. Joseph Chilton Pearce parenting want children Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant. Joseph Chilton Pearce intuition knowing years Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. Joseph Chilton Pearce childhood adults play For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. Joseph Chilton Pearce want children moving All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities. Joseph Chilton Pearce self-esteem play children One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. Joseph Chilton Pearce full-life metaphor capacity The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power. Joseph Chilton Pearce position-of-power comfort latin Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach. Joseph Chilton Pearce spiritual teacher children We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. Joseph Chilton Pearce thinker reality world Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. Joseph Chilton Pearce realization ideas We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. Joseph Chilton Pearce calming pulse creative The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent. Joseph Chilton Pearce learning parent children Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair. Joseph Chilton Pearce greatness unique heart Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions Joseph Chilton Pearce notion reality A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. Joseph Chilton Pearce learning home school Seeing within changes one's outer vision. Joseph Chilton Pearce awe vision reflection And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play. Joseph Chilton Pearce play believe children We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities. Joseph Chilton Pearce eye agreement mean We must become the people we want our children to be. Joseph Chilton Pearce want children people
