{"id":734,"date":"2006-10-18T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:34:50","slug":"value-of-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Value of Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently purchased a copy of Faerie Gold: Treasures From the Lands of Enchantment<\/a>\"\"(P&R Publishers, 2005) for our children. It is a collection of various “fairy tales” from writers such as George MacDonald. I have not yet had a chance to read any of the fairy tales, but I read the essay included at the end on the value of fairy tales for children. It is excellent! This is a well written argument from a Christian perspective on the value of fairy tales. Here are just a few quotes:<\/p>\n

“A child may be too young for fairy tales, but he can never be too old for them.”\u009d (274)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Some universal spiritual truth underlies the really fine old fairy tale; but there can be no educative influence in the so-called fairy stories which are merely jumbles of impossible incidents, and which not infrequently present dishonesty, deceit, and cruelty in amusing guise.”\u009d [quoting Kate Douglas Wiggins] (275)<\/p>\n

“it is this taste of joy and desire that draws us ever onward to the most incredible, true, and wonder-filled of all stories – the gospel.”\u009d (276)<\/p>\n

I would recommend this essay to all parents.<\/p>\n

Following the essay is a collection of quotes from famous people on the value of fairy tales. Here are a few. I’ll plan to post more in the future.<\/p>\n

“If you want your kids to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”\u009d -Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other – the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.” –\u00a0 G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered<\/em><\/p>\n

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that
\nfairy tales should be respected.”\u009d – Charles Dickens<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently purchased a copy of Faerie Gold: Treasures From the Lands of Enchantment(P&R Publishers, 2005) for our children. It is a collection of various “fairy tales” from writers such as George MacDonald. I have not yet had a chance to read any of the fairy tales, but I read the essay included at the …<\/p>\n

Continue reading ‘Value of Fairy Tales’ »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}