Read Your Children Fairy Tales Albert Einstein

„If yous desire your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more than fairy tales."

Institute in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx http://books.google.com/books?id=PpwaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22more+fairy+tales%22#search_anchor. The story is given as follows: "In the current New Mexico Library Message, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a woman who was a personal friend of the late dean of scientists, Dr. Albert Einstein. Motivated partly by her adoration for him, she held hopes that her son might go a scientist. One day she asked Dr. Einstein'south advice most the kind of reading that would best prepare the child for this career. To her surprise, the scientist recommended 'Fairy tales and more fairy tales.' The female parent protested that she was really serious about this and she wanted a serious reply; but Dr. Einstein persisted, calculation that artistic imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the babyhood stimulus to this quality." However, it is unclear from this description whether Margulis heard this story personally from the adult female who had supposedly had this discussion with Einstein, and the relevant issue of the New Mexico Library Message does not appear to be online.
Variant: "First, give him fairy tales; second, give him fairy tales, and tertiary, give him fairy tales!" Constitute in The Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 37 from 1962, which says on p. 678 http://books.google.com/books?id=KfQOAQAAMAAJ&q=einstein#search_anchor that this quote was reported by "Doris Gates, author and children'southward librarian".
Variant: "Fairy tales … More fairy tales … Even more than fairy tales". Plant in Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (1979), p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MxZFuahqzsMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#5=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "If you desire your children to exist brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If yous want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales." Found in Chocolate for a Adult female's Heart & Soul by Kay Allenbaugh (1998), p. 57 http://books.google.com/books?id=grrpJh7-CfcC&q=brilliant#search_anchor. This version can be institute in Usenet posts from earlier 1998, like this one from 1995 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.beatles/msg/cec9a9fdf803b72b?hl=en.
Variant: "If you lot want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If y'all want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Found in Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema past Christopher Frayling (2005), p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HjRYA3ELdG0C&lpg=PA6&dq=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=einstein%twenty%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to exist more intelligent, read them more than fairy tales." Institute in Super joy English, Volume eight by 佳音事業機構 (2006), p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=-HUBKzP8zsUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=faux
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Context: Fairy tales and more fairy tales. [in response to a mother who wanted her son to go a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him]

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„Fairy tales and more fairy tales."

— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

in response to a mother who wanted her son to get a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him
Establish in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx http://books.google.com/books?id=PpwaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22more+fairy+tales%22#search_anchor. The story is given every bit follows: "In the electric current New Mexico Library Bulletin, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a adult female who was a personal friend of the late dean of scientists, Dr. Albert Einstein. Motivated partly by her admiration for him, she held hopes that her son might become a scientist. Ane day she asked Dr. Einstein's advice almost the kind of reading that would best set up the kid for this career. To her surprise, the scientist recommended 'Fairy tales and more than fairy tales.' The mother protested that she was really serious virtually this and she wanted a serious answer; but Dr. Einstein persisted, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the truthful scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality." Still, it is unclear from this clarification whether Margulis heard this story personally from the woman who had supposedly had this discussion with Einstein, and the relevant issue of the New Mexico Library Bulletin does not appear to be online.
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Variant: "Starting time, give him fairy tales; 2nd, give him fairy tales, and 3rd, give him fairy tales!" Found in The Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 37 from 1962, which says on p. 678 http://books.google.com/books?id=KfQOAQAAMAAJ&q=einstein#search_anchor that this quote was reported by "Doris Gates, author and children's librarian".
Variant: "Fairy tales ... More fairy tales ... Fifty-fifty more than fairy tales". Plant in Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (1979), p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MxZFuahqzsMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=simulated.
Variant: "If you want your children to be bright, tell them fairy tales. If yous want them to be very bright, tell them fifty-fifty more fairy tales." Found in Chocolate for a Woman's Heart & Soul by Kay Allenbaugh (1998), p. 57 http://books.google.com/books?id=grrpJh7-CfcC&q=brilliant#search_anchor. This version can exist found in Usenet posts from before 1998, like this ane from 1995 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.beatles/msg/cec9a9fdf803b72b?hl=en.
Variant: "If you lot desire your children to exist intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more than fairy tales." Constitute in Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Movie theatre past Christopher Frayling (2005), p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HjRYA3ELdG0C&lpg=PA6&dq=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Establish in Super joy English, Volume 8 past 佳音事業機構 (2006), p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=-HUBKzP8zsUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false

„The happy catastrophe of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine one-act of the soul, is to exist read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of human being."

— Joseph Campbell, book The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Campbell follows with a quote from Ovid's Metamorposes, "All things are changing; aught dies..."
Chapter 2
The Hero with a Thou Faces (1949)
Context: The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, non as a contradiction, merely as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms... the two are the terms of a single mythological theme... the down-going and the up-coming (kathados and anodos), which together establish the totality of the revelation that is life, and which the individual must know and beloved if he is to exist purged (katharsis=purgatorio) of the contagion of sin (disobedience to the divine will) and death (identification with the mortal grade).