Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Love this. Inspires me to write fables in which the animals get the better of us. or not even fables but stories. Maybe the animals teach us the moral, in an indirect way.
“Again I followed—to find now that the third bait was gone—and the king-wolf's track led on to the fourth, there to learn that he had not really taken a bait at all, but had
... See moreWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Quoted this in my piece on the value of routine: Rewards of Routine
Chesterton on why children ought to be told fairy tales
When writing for children: Write up, not down. Don’t dumb it down. They love a challenge.