{"id":846,"date":"2008-07-11T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2013-06-26T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:57:02","slug":"c-s-lewis-on-the-importance-of-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"C. S. Lewis on the Importance of Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday I came across this quote from a letter by C. S. Lewis. It captures a truth important to me about reading to children, and the sorts of things they need exposure to. Of course Lewis also argues elsewhere that stories themselves have a keen power in pointing us to Christ. So awakening the imagination is also part of pointing one to Christ.<\/p>\n

“Minto reads him the Peter Rabbit books every evening, and it is a lovely sight. She read very slowly and he gazes up into her eyes which look enormous through her spectacles – what a pity she has no grandchildren. Would you believe it, the child has never been read to nor told a story in his life? Not that he is neglected. He has a whole time Nurse (an insufferable semi-lady scientific woman with a diploma from some Tom-fool nursing college), a hundred patent foods, is spoiled, and far too expensively dressed: but his poor imagination has been left without any natural food at all. I often wonder what the present generation of children will grow up like. . . . They have been treated with so much indulgence yet so little affection, with so much science and so little mother-wit. Not a fairy tale nor a nursery rhyme.”<\/p>\n

– Quoted in Alan Jacobs, <\/span>The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis<\/span><\/em><\/a>\"\", 217). (New York: HaperCollins, 2005), 234-35.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday I came across this quote from a letter by C. S. Lewis. It captures a truth important to me about reading to children, and the sorts of things they need exposure to. Of course Lewis also argues elsewhere that stories themselves have a keen power in pointing us to Christ. So awakening the …<\/p>\n

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