Show CHILDREN CHILDRE 14 ARE REAL POETS descriptions of ordinary things show imaginative fancy that oe des not survive the years year children are born with a taste for or knowledge they want to know and they want to know the right things thoy they ask questions and are not easily satisfied they are ond fond of imitating what they see nee around them they are highly imaginative they clothe their ideis idea in concrete forms thero there was a time when they were regarded as immature adults we have learned that the main aim of a teacher must be to give the right tone to the feelings good goodness neis in the abstract to Is of little avail the imagination must be stirred we are accustomed to believe that there Is little reflection on the part of children and yet one cannot but see now and again gleams of thought which suggest a hidden mental power working almost unconsciously the little girl who gi gathered sunlight in her hands and put it on her face knew something of the effects effect of of beat heat and how full of humor are some of the sayings saying of children it was wa punch we believe who depicted tommy after he had been severely corrected as exclaiming i link ill go back to heaven where I 1 came from and what a fund of suggestion was conveyed by the little girl who on hearing a running tap said that the water was the poetry of life is frequently seen in childhood we have this illustrated in the description of butterflies as panales pan flying A star is a cinder from gods great star has a wealth of unconscious meaning but perhaps the finest approach to poetry was made by a tiny tot who defined dew as the grass crying oh auntie aun tle said eald the little girl ive just spen a pencil walking the nurse who ho had grown out ot of fairyland explained that it was only an ordinary worm |