Is there a book like Thomistic Philosophy Explained to Children?
A cousin of mine, a hyper-literate first-grader, keeps asking me things about reality, and I don't know how to answer his questions in a way that doesn't leave him staring off into space in a total blank.
I would say you are perfectly qualified to write it.
Ah, bless your kind heart, dear sir, but the truth is that I am completely incompetent when it comes to grade-school pedagogy. I tried to explain what Thomism is to some children sometime ago, and they fell asleep within two minutes. The mother begged me to be their tutor, if only to give her more free time. I answered her request in the negative because, as I told her, "you're a mother: you are not supposed to have free time until your kids are rational, independent creatures."
Besides, there is the very accurate account of the true nature of pedagogy that was cited earlier in this discussion:
There is a tradition, probably untrustworthy, that in certain well‐known schools the new assistant master begins his career by teaching the older students advanced subjects, and ends it, if he is successful, by rising to the high levels of infants and alphabets. At any rate the tradition witnesses to a profound truth. It is comparatively easy to lecture to Plato on philosophy or to St. Thomas on theology; but it requires almost superhuman knowledge and effort and skill to discourse effectively to children on any subject whatever.
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