Childhood Voice: The Salient Indication of Adulthood

Machiavelli: Adults and Kids are the Same
Childhood and Adulthood are one and the same.
Craziness for love is the natural human state. Nicolo Machiavelli, of all people -- who write the "Prince", instructing rulers to create fear and rule with fear instead of love -- discusses the significance of the childhood voice, saying that "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There does exist a distinction between children and adults, but such distinctions are specious; they are superficial and nonexistent. On the fundamental level -- the significant level -- adults and kids are identical. Abandoning the childhood voice is a recipe for vacancy and void as an adult, but never understanding and being adult will create obstacles. Fuse childhood voice and adult demeanor to ensure incredible success and happiness. Machiavelli continues, "there are only individual egos, crazy for love". And that craziness for love -- creating, supporting, and giving love -- is healthy. The last thing I'd expect to hear from good ol' Nicolo is that kids and adults are fundamentally the same except for some minor superficial altercations. I would have expected him to say that adults have abondoned the inner child for a mature, powerful self, or something, but even this master of policits recognizes the power of the inner child voice and its parralells to adulthood.


Einstein
Childhood voice is success, time of freedom, and intuition.
"The purpose of education is to channel the childlike sense for lack of fear of failure and absence of fear of rejection into different areas of academia"

Rousseau
Childhood is time of freedom and intuition.
Rousseau contradicts himself saying that "childhood is the sleep of reason". Normally a dormant reason and conscious is not a good thing, but it could mean that the intuition is awake. Also, he also says that "man was born free and everywhere he is in chains". So that man, in childhood, when he was born, is free! So intuition and freedom are linked with childhood voice!

Aldous Huxley
Childhood is enthusiasm and path to genius.
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."

Kahlil Gibran
Children cannot be possessed, owned; their souls never housed in a house or with a family.
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
You can give birth to, give love to, and give nurturing to a child, but you can never "own" or possess a child saying that it is your own. They generate their own thoughts and have tremendous incredible souls that can never be housed.

Childhood is GeniusPicasso. "What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood."

Educate Children. JFK"A child miseducated is a child lost. "

Respect Children. Plato. "Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. "

Be not man fearing light. Plato. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. "

Honesty is Childhood. Socrates. "An honest man is always a child."