Imagination Station

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Name 10 ways to destroy your child’s imagination. Ok, we'll give you 5 to start: 1. Mechanize your kid, 2. pad their resume, 3. send them to Yale, 4. stifle their natural talents and, if you do nothing else, 5. deter any natural tendency to admire God's vast creation. This is but a taste of the (outlandish?) commentary to expect from Dr. Anthony Esolen, professor of English at Providence College and author of Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. To those of us glued to our screens or whose suffocated imaginations are inhibited by too many distractions, Dr. Esolen is a breath of fresh air.The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a free MP3 download entitled "Children and Parents". Discount is applied at checkout.The Moral Structure of Pedophilia by Anthony EsolenFox News Anchors Stunned - Punked By Guest?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.5	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.3	Evangelicals. So how do you go about raising a child without imagination? It seems like our
0:37.4	culture knows the answer. Anthony
0:39.6	Esselin is here to teach us how to avoid raising children in a harmful way. Let's join Anthony
0:45.6	and the MOS crew for this conversation. Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin, the weekly podcast that hosts a casual conversation about things that count.
1:02.3	The usual gangs all here.
1:03.5	I'm here with my friend Todd Pruitt and Amy Bird.
1:07.3	This week we have a special guest.
1:09.1	We are very honored to have Professor Anthony Esselen with us.
1:14.6	Tony is Professor of English at Providence College and lives in Rhode Island with his family.
1:22.5	Tony is arguably one of the few true polymaths left or few true polymaths that I've ever come across.
1:31.7	Not only is he a professor of English, he's also produced a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy,
1:38.9	not just translated it, but provided excellent explanatory notes that's published by the modern library, and has also
1:47.4	produced two very thought-provoking and provocative books on childhood. Ten ways to destroy the
1:53.5	imagination of your child, and life under compulsion. Ten ways to destroy the humanity of your child. Tony, it's great to have you with us today.
2:05.9	It's great to be with y'all. Thanks for joining us. Well, let's just say I'm a new parent and I've
2:11.9	got a child. One of the first things I should be doing to try to destroy that child's imagination?
2:18.0	What would you recommend as something that I need to do in order to wipe out any vestige
2:23.3	of imagination or humanity my child might have been born with?
2:28.5	Well, the first thing that you ought to do is to forget that that child is a child.
2:38.0	You've got to keep in mind what human beings are made for. Human beings are made to fit into a great economic, political machine.
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