If Life Is To Be

The Playing Adult Steps Sideward Into Another Reality; The Playing Child Advances Forward To New Stages Of Mastery.

Will, Therefore, Is The Unbroken Determination To Exercise Free Choice As Well As Self-restraint, In Spite Of The Unavoidable Experience Of Shame And Doubt In Infancy.

There Is In Every Child At Every Stage A New Miracle Of Vigorous Unfolding.

The Strengths A Young Person Finds In Adults At This Time-their Willingness To Let Him Experiment, Their Eagerness To Confirm Him At His Best, Their Consistency In Correcting His Excesses, And The Guidance They Give Him-will Codetermine Whether Or Not He Eventually Makes Order Out Of Necessary Inner Confusion And Applies Himself To The Correction Of Disordered Conditions. He Needs Freedom To Choose, But Not So Much Freedom That He Cannot, In Fact, Make A Choice.

Mans True Taproots Are Nourished In The Sequence Of Generations, And He Loses His Taproots In Disrupted Developmental Time, Not In Abandoned Localities.