Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.