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
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!
learning school home
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
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.
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.
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.
children people want
We must become the people we want our children to be.
produce representation
Any representation of God produces accordingly.
children reality
As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.
mean eye agreement
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.
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.
heart unique greatness
Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.