Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearceis an American author of a number of books on human development and child development and is best known for his books, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Childand The Bond of Power: Meditation and Wholeness. He prefers the name "Joe"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
children people want
We must become the people we want our children to be.
children reality
As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.
children believe play
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.
children moving adults
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.
children learning parent
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.
children self-esteem play
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.
spiritual teacher children
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.
children want teach
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
growing-up children learning
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.
begin begins book hear huge information learn next research straight time
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!
fear life lose
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
humankind intelligence sports
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
vision seeing
Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
ideas fabric
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.