Joseph Chilton Pearce

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free,…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that,…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.”

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We must become the people we want our children to be.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.”

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce