Imagination…is the healthy child’s most precious possession, the bedrock of their ultimate identity as autonomous and well-adjusted adults.
Why then, one might ask, does society lay siege on imagination? For that is how things stand today.
To begin with, falsely believing abductions and child murders to be everyday dangers, we have put in a host of needless restrictions on children’s lives, preventing them as a result from experiencing much nature (or life indeed) beyond the bite-sized chunks dolloped out to them on screen or in museums.
We allow advertisers (even on RTE, to our shame) to exploit children by making them feel self-conscious for not having Object X or looking like Celebrity Y.
You can read the full text of this article I wrote for the Mayo News, by clicking the link below:
Keegan – The (Almost) Lost World [Mayo News]
Flickr image by …Tim