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Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

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The Importance of Understanding Pinocchio

When you were teaching at Loyola, some of your students struggled with metaphor and with symbols. You talked about how that they themselves, when they watched children read it, were surprised, saying, wow, these fourth graders understand the stories better than we do. "The interest in Pinocchio is much greater in a young child than it is an adult"

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