Ruth McAdoo’s Reviews > Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child > Status Update

“If you do not want a child to paint, you take away his palette. If you do not want him to use his imagination to conceive of archetypal stories, you take away his narrative palette. You take away, or corrupt, or subvert all his types. That you will do most efficiently if you deprive him of folk tales.”

I could highlight this whole chapter.

I’m enjoying this but…. He’s going for a Screwtape Letters vibe (“oh no! My child has an imagination! How to destroy it, hmm”) but it is NOT a series of letters from a demon, and the chapters are long.

Therefore I keep forgetting that we’re talking from a false negative and occasionally am taken aback by something he’s saying but jot actually promoting. Not my fav format.