We lose our souls.
If children in the cities cannot see the stars, they lose their souls.
Because we are in a world that has to be activated by the outer world.
If we don't have these experiences, if we don't have this wondrous
world to live in, and it's why we have eyes, why we have ears,
why we can feel the wind, why we can hear the birds in the evening,
and why we can walk on the shore of the water.
Well, we are privileged here, but there's so
many people that don't have this privilege.
But we have a chance for some of this.
But we live in a world that's progressively alienated
from the deepest source of our experience of meaning,
our deepest source of elevation of mind and of excitement with life and existence.
And this is what Maria Montessori was writing in that wonderful
book of hers that she wrote.
And well, she gave the lectures in the 1930s.
It was published in 1940s on how to teach six-year-olds.
And she pointed out then that you have to give the child a sense of the universe.
And that is what excites the child.
That is what elevates the aspirations of children.
And then she tells a story of the universe.
Now, there's so much else to be said as regards to this.
But there's a further question of the fact we don't feel
that we can tell the story, and that is tragic.
People say everybody knows how to tell the story of the universe.
And they tell the stories, go the Australian Aborigines,
they'll tell you the story of the universe.
They'll tell it many different ways.
Go to any tribal people in the world, they have a story of the universe.
Everybody knows the story of the universe.
We are the only people who don't have a story of the universe.