COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Child is Naive
Answer: -Children have a natural innocence to them.
-2 paintings (medieval wall painting from little church in Ausrtia-
Mickey Mouse, and "Madonna and Child with infant St. John- Vigin
Mary-UFO)
◉ Child Lacks Perspective
Answer: -They lack the context necessary to understand what's
happening moment by moment.
-Spilled milk= end of the world
~As we grow up, we should be developing the ability to put the
things that happen in life into a broader perspective.
~This is a powerful life tool, because it enables us to see the big
picture and how we fit into it;
◉ Child is dependent
Answer: As a parent, you want your child to develop the ability to be
independent in the right ways, and to make good independent
choices for himself or herself.
, ◉ Cicero quote summary:
Answer: All of these observations take us into the heart of what
Cicero must have had in mind.
***His argument is that the knowledge of the past really can help us
to mature in such a way that we can face the complexities and
challenges of life.
◉ Intellectual Reason: 2nd quote from Goethe
Answer: "Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past
3000 years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day
to day."
-Goethe
~What Goethe means is that we won't have the light we need to
navigate into the future if we don't understand what lies behind us
in the past.
◉ Goethe quote analyzed:
Answer: We're living day to day, moment by moment, driven by
stimulus, impulse, and instinct.
~Think about it: If we reduce life to that, then we are reducing life to
the level of how an animal lives.
~that living only for experience is not really living at all.