Children's Development - Living Ideas

The best age for this is between the ages of nine and 12. We should give children a view of the interweaving activity on earth, whose inner life force produces the myriad forms of plants. Ideas must develop just as a limb does on one's body. A limb must develop in earliest youth. If we were to enclose a hand within an iron glove, could not grow yet. It is constantly said that the ideas we give children should be the most definite possible. But nothing is more harmful to a child than definitions and sharply contoured ideas because they lack the quality of growth.