All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions… We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time and silence.
Philip Pullman
February 24, 2010
We can, of course, easily substitute the word game for book in this quote.
Or “text”?
Is silence necessary? I know quite a lot of people that need music to think, or even read.
Otherwise, good quote =)
Perhaps stillness would work better than silence.
This is from the Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis project… have you looked into this at all, or did you see this somewhere else? (Probably the latter). I really need to plug this Citizen Ethics project on my blog before I break up for the Spring…
I actually found it via a comment addressed to Susan Cooper after her excellent lecture, Role of Fantasy in Children’s Lives, to the Cambridge Forum.