What does the following quote mean?
This is all I am given by my teacher, I have to write an essay comparing this to childrens books...and I have absolutly no idea what is going on.
"...it is biologically natural that children should, in imagination, live through the life of remote savage ancestors"
--Bertrand Russell
What does that have anything childrens books?
2007-03-14 11:50:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The quote means that 'kids are prone to imagine all kinds of odd stuff and reading books written in the past, (long time past or just short time) will enhance the experience.'
Remote = in the past
savage = filled with extraordinary ideas/concepts
ancestor = those who died and are gone
live through the life = experience other people's adventures without doing them themselves
Your teacher is looking for your thoughts upon kids' reading skills, the alternatives (which is TV and computers), and the intrusion of the society of the 21st century and how it is different from the days when your teacher (maybe 50 ish) was a kid.
2007-03-14 12:53:51 · answer #1 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's talking about how it's instinctual for children to learn from stories... through imagination.. say like, cowboys and Indians. The stories about our "savage ancestors" just happen to provide allot of imagination material.. while perhaps providing the basis for forming morals, etc.
2007-03-14 11:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is normal for children to pretend and act like monkeys.
2007-03-14 11:58:48 · answer #3 · answered by freedomchild99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋