The corollary, of course, is that kids desperately need more free time to ignite their imaginations, develop a sense of wonder, and discover their passions and purpose.
The question is: Why do schools teach music in a way that turns off so many young people rather than igniting their imagination?
For my parents and their generation, Yuri Gagarin's first orbit 50 years ago today – followed only eight years later by Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon – ignited their imagination with a fire so bright that the stories they told inspired my own love of space as a child.
Perhaps its time to re-ignite their imagination, ask them to make up the game and learn to wait for prizes that come from being committed to a goal.
By inspiring, engaging, and igniting their imaginations, we're encouraging our children to be life-long learners.
From the depths of debtors' prison, a voice reached out and once again captured people's imagination and ignited their enthusiasm.
The film ignited their romance.
They need to re-ignite their passion".
Differences in their plumage and the shape and size of their beaks would ignite Darwin's imagination, helping him piece together his theory of evolution by natural selection.
