"These days there seems to be a growing sense that there is never enough time to do all we want to do and that life is whizzing by at an untouchable velocity. As a result of this speed it seems that childhood too is being shortened. What we see are children who are mini adults of 5 telling their parents which school they want to go to, what clothes they want to wear, what food they won't eat etc.
Children don't know how to play anymore and if the toy comes without batteries they are at a total loss as to what to do with with it and incapacitated to invent something from nothing. What needs to be brought back into the classroom is something very simple - the chance to use one of mans most precious instruments - IMAGINATION. By feeding children's imagination in an appropriate way, we are laying down the foundations to a balanced and fulfilling future existence.
According to recent research in childhood development, movement, music, art and culture is of fundamental importance.
When a child is involved in natural and free imaginative play, he is always making his discoveries, finding new alternatives. Children are biologically programmed in this way and need only the correct stimulus to do what they know how to do best - PLAY. Later on this will help the child to become a free thinking adult with original ideas and a flexible approach to problems and challenges.
Parents and teachers need to stimulate a sense of awe and wonderment in their children, and not a mechanical, objective, analytical reality."
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