A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
I’m no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
We see the world by applying the expectations generated by the statistical lens of our own past experience, and not (mostly) by applying the more delicately rose-nuanced lenses of our political and social aspirations. So if the world that tunes those expectations is sexist or racist, future perceptions will also be similarly sculpted — a royal recipe for tainted evidence and self-fulfilling negative prophecies. That means we should probably be very careful about the shape of the worlds to which we expose ourselves, and our children.
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