Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-03
Children Look Out of the
Window--Asking Questions

You see woman enter small
baby nothing in life do but to wrigge its and
puts its back her knees that wrigge
comfortably
She also child boy girl from years
the baby has been Strengthened properly its dress
legs kick freely neck made
Portable THE OLDER CHILD is SETTLED so THAT TT CAN
out Of the window.
would think strange you boy girl of
eight sit quietly street car keeping eyes inside the ear
expect child around kne the and look
you expect the long series of questions the
young eager face is turned toward the mother Everything
resting everything thought everything must be
planned
Compare yourself the average grown and with
looking Of window We gown-up people keep
eyes inside the We tired bored the world looks old
u.s. things that happening do not interest
AND THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE CEASED TO GROW.
Would suggest that grown and should knee
the seats and look out of the wndowsY No But do that
who eagerly
nty the and the imagination through which alone THE
BRAIN CAN GROW
What moving child its
nents and wonders THIS MOVING EARTH SHOULD BE TO
THE GROWN MAN OR WOMAN.
Every night lives through mysterious space
but have the opportunity to look the wonders of the
We have the opportunity questions and
have them answered by the books and the other
sciences
many Of look many of ask questions of
books or Of learned men NOT ONE IN TEN THOUSAND AFTER
THIRTY YEARS OF AGE; PERHAPS ONE IN A THOUSAND
BETWEEN TWENTY FIVE AND THIRTY; ONE IN A HUN
DRIED BETWEEN TWENTY AND TWENTY FIVE.
One of the best sayings this Every child
genius and every genius child That is literally
Genius above all things the to things AS THEY
ARE
The genius the grown of creative power
hard work, concentration; but it above all THE OPEN
MIND THE POWER TO RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS.
The who look inquire ask
hike who has lost his sight He has not lost the physical sight of
the but the spiritual sight of the brain which infinitely
precious
This writer listened a inhebtant of Chicago
making his first trip up the Rhine de sat on small chair look
ing INWARD with glance the old the hills and
the vineyards And he looked inward he talked with friend
slaughter house that he had Paris earnestly
ing that inferior to secondrae slaughter house
in Chicago really big enough for decent refrgeratng plant
And that supremey intellectual conversation lasted him until he
off the boat ready the the hotel
There nothing exceptional about this manothers like him
HAD SIMPLY LOST THE FACULTY OF THE DESIRE TO
LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW easy understand that real
much ADLER and energetic slaughter house
prietor He might become and USEFUL MAN since
it is useful to give work TO other
might thorough admirable citizen by dis
human mind human soul he blind man. has growth had
stopped
do not grow The ten be WE
HAVE STOPPED SEEING stopped feeding our minds
we have stopped Cooking out of the window We have gathered
together supply supply
Impressions We have little foolish that
over We have arranged dressing orses we have
what like for breakfast and for dinner We
few books and talk about those AND WE READ VERY FEW
NEW ONES We occasionally foolish play, and think
have of humor If laugh believe ourselves sensitive
and sympathetic if we weep
BUT WE ARE NOT GROWING. THAT CHILDISH EAGER
NESS FOR KNOWLEDGE, WHICH MARKS THE LITTLE BOY
AND THE GREAT GENIUS, NEARLY ALI. MEN LOSE EARLY.
after that they become valuable dummies little wheels the
great machine, useful buyers sellers, workers
But they really EN- longer Lucky for the human
that death invented lucky that Death with his cthe
along and cuts of by the millions making room FOR THE
CHILDREN THAT WILL LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOWS; MAX
ING ROOM FOR THE FRESIIER MINDS THAT WILL RECEIVE
AND USE NEW TRUTHS AND NEW IMPRESSIONS
The with his eyes the the who does
the the tragedy the inspirations the brotherhood the
face the opposite might well be back IN the ground
For there IS more earth than man about him