A reverence for dreary elegance crushes imagination.
No strict regimes – punishment and making a child feel like a bad person crushes the imagination and self-motivation that underly emotionally healthy achievement.
The story that still sticks with her more than 25 years later is "The Dutch Doll," in which a young girl believes her doll is alive but the adult world intrudes and crushes her imagination.
Unlike The End, which always seemed to know what it was doing – namely football, music and beer, but presented in a way that didn't assume the ubiquity of those things had crushed the imagination out of its readers.
Unlike The End, which always seemed to know what it was doing namely football, music, and beer presented in a way that didn't assume the ubiquity of those topics had crushed the imagination out of its readers.
"How you crush creativity and imagination in small communities is by telling them that they're not capable of creating art – or of having a cultural identity or cultural value".
A quick look at the main parties' online shops reveals a crushing lack of imagination matched only by every single one of their policies.
The destruction of some of the last populations of the animals that shaped us, as well as the natural world, inflicts, I feel, a great wound in our lives, diminishing the wonderful planet on which we evolved, shrinking imagination, crushing experience.
It is a struggle against cowardice and conformism, and against everyone who would crush both truth and imagination into a cramped coffin of orthodoxy.
Gardner believes that "we need to nurture imagination, not crush it with standardised tests, which don't mean a thing in the real world".
