From the archives: November 15, 1963
From the archives minds, even during leisure hours, thereby threatening ihe free flight of the spirit.... A distressing number of stories are not created— they are fabricated. In fact, one...
...I fere from the November 15,1963 fc>ue is an rxcerpl from Claire I luchet Bishtrp's column on children's books...
...In fact, one can well foresee the day when machines could turn them out better and faster than so-called writers....Yel [this] treason is more despicable than that of writers for adults, especially in today'.* world when the collective means for the human race's destruction are in the hands of men...
...Everybody knows that, and yet there is the seemingly irantic race tor cramming more and more formal knowledge in children's Commonweal 7 November 5,1999...
...A child's factual and technical curiosity does not constitute his whole make-up nor does it sum up his entire longing...
...Children need to store respect, understanding, concern for human destiny in such n way that these may stand them in good stead later when they have to face the kind of planetary demands the coming age will thrust upon them...
...Up to the age of twelve, are not "real books" for him those which meet besl that fundamental, humanist hunger...
...Ci.-mkj- FlraiFi Bishop Tlnotighout 1999, Commonweal has been celebrating Us 75th anniversary...
...Children of today will be in command tomorrow...
...He is also eager for release of his imagination, a feeling of his fancy, an escape for his mind into the possibilities of an adventure, enchantment with rhythm, a discovery in human relationship, a glimpse at inner meaning, a probing of himself...
...Sheer technical knowledge will be absolutely necessary, while shallowness and futility may endanger the whole of mankind...
Vol. 126 • November 1999 • No. 19
