To Understand Is To Invent.

I Could Not Think Without Writing.

Children Require Long, Uniterrupted Periods Of Play And Exploration

For The Fundamental Fact Of Human Psychology Is That Society, Instead Of Remaining Almost Entirely Inside The Individual Organism As In The Case Of Animals Prompted By Their Instincts, Becomes Crystallized Almost Entirely Outside The Individuals. In Other Words, Social Rules, As Durkheim Has So Powerfully Shown, Whether They Be Linguistic, Moral, Religious, Or Legal, Etc., Cannot Be Constituted, Transmitted Or Preserved By Means Of An Internal Biological Heredity, But Only Through The External Pressure Exercised By Individuals Upon Each Other.

True Interest Appears When The Self Identifies Itself With Ideas Or Objects, When It Finds In Them A Means Of Expression And They Become A Necessary Form Of Fuel For Its Activity.

How Can We, With Our Adult Minds, Know What Will Be Interesting? If You Follow The Child...you Can Find Out Something New.