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Robert Coles — The Inner Lives of Children

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Children Are Witnesses

Children who are brought up in a secular world have deep inner size to them. They ask eternal questions of what's right and what's wrong. And this witness that children have naturally within a family, within the developing institutional world is an important part of their human nature. But they also have a critical side to them, as all outsiders do,. And they're asking why, and they're wondering about things.

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