arts and culture on childlikeness

Children, in particular, are driven to create—if we just nudge them in that direction. They thrive in a world stocked with raw materials. But too often, and with the best of intentions, we fill their ...

In nothing is the child so righteously childlike, in nothing does he exhibit more accurately the sounder order of simplicity, than in the fact that he sees everything with a simple pleasure, even the ...

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.