“So they called a meeting in the village hall, and Mayor Muddlenut asked them all, ‘What can we do?’ And they said, ‘Good question!’ But nobody had a good suggestion.”
“I want to help,′ says Dusty. ‘Why don’t you play with your train!’ suggests Grandpa. ‘I have to watch the pancakes.’ ‘Or else?’ asks Dusty. ‘Or else there will be no food to ear,’ says Grandpa. ‘Go play with your traing and little men.”
“And yet there is more to either than appears on the surface, and they will have more in common than their social backgrounds and familiar aspirations would suggest.”
“This was a welcome suggestion, for, as all travellers know, if you don’t sit by a camp fire in the evening, you have to sit by nothing in the dark...”
’Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too--all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides--made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!