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Recommended Reading
Living By Wonder: The Imaginative Life of Childhood
by Richard Lewis
Parabola, 1998
ISBN: 0-930407-38-5
Richard Lewis is founder and director of the New York Touchstone Center, an interdisciplinary arts organization concerned with encouraging people of all ages to find individual sources and expressions of their imaginative abilities. This book is particularly important in a world filled with high technologies, and in need of reminders that the human spirit is nourished and developed through the creative arts. Lewis also explores the languages of childhood, considers the joy of early learning, the need for solitude and times for reflection, the importance of making discoveries in the natural world, and the need for unstructured play.
Living by Wonder is filled with gems of children's deep insights, poetry, stories, and art. This collection of delightful essays considers the life of the imagination as a necessary part of every child's growing consciousness. Lewis concludes, "For a moment in the mystery of autumnal silence, we are alone with wonder, secure in the knowledge that no matter what else is happening, or what other ways of knowing there might be, the particular language of our wondrous thought is how we interpret what is here. With only this fragile measure of timelessness as our companion, who among us could not agree with Lao-tsu, who said to us: From wonder into wonder, existence opens."
If any teacher is tempted to abandon the arts in favor of focusing on raising test scores in rote ways, please read this book to renew your commitment to the imaginative and emotional needs of your students.
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