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actually makes a case about later saying you don't want to send your daughters. I think he spoke with speaking about daughters and sons into the world as too naive. So they need to read good literature so they can experience the deception, difficulty, challenges of the world so that when they get in the world, they're not naive. I think that those two aligns. That's correct. And then you talk about how Martin Boober, the Jewish philosopher, realized he was making mistakes in giving instructions and ethics. He was trying to teach formal rules and principles. And he said, every time I do that, I could feel their resistance. He said, if I explain that the bad or wicked to bully the weak, I could see a suppressed smile on the lips of the straw. Right. I try to explain lying destroys life. And the worst habitual liar of class produces a brilliant essay on the destructive power. True. And so you give this idea of that the Greek word for character is an impression. And so that part of the idea is that the stories create an impression. They impress themselves upon the soul, the intellect of not just children, but adults, but especially children. And that gives them a vision of the moral life much richer than say, you
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know, a syllogism would. All right. Let me let me help out a little bit here. Yeah. Okay. Children don't have the ability because their world is limited by guardians who rightfully protect them to have the kinds of fully experienced the world. The worlds are limited in that sense. And their experiences are going to be limited. So what McIntyre was saying is, is that we need to give them stories through which they can grow into the world experiences that they can use later in order to navigate their way through the world. That's extremely important. And if we give them bad stories, such as this culture is doing, we're doing great harm, not only to their minds, but to their souls. I have a really strong feeling about how bad, well, how much we're hurting children by the quality of the stories we're giving them. Awful, awful.

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