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Ep 09 | A Child’s Mind Isn’t a Bucket (And Moms Don’t Have Shovels) (Principles #9-10)

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The Distaste of Robinson Crusoe

The only true food for the mind is living ideas. Mason insisted that to draw conclusions about the mind of a student, one needed to look at the results. By now, we know that growth and development in the mind are just like the body. Both mind and body have what they need to grow, but we have the responsibility to supply the best nutrition for that work. The mind is a living organism, a spiritual organism, and it needs a diet of ideas.

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