Forget the educational Gradgrinds and school league tables’ fixation on facts – to imagine is the mind at its most humanI read recently about a six-year-old girl falling to her death from a high building in Japan after watching a cartoon featuring children who could fly. It struck a chord because I too, at about the same age (after seeing Peter Pan), tottered on to a high ledge, trying to summon the courage to soar skywards. If I just believed it enough, I told myself, I would be able to fly.I chickened out and was thus more fortunate than the Read More

Source:: The Guardian