Just because someone wrote something and it is often quoted does not make it the truth. In recent years, I have witnessed the plague of misinformation/disinformation being posted. As my mom would frequently say, "One lies and another swears to it."

Plato offered that human emotions worked contrary to human logic. Plato was full of it. A refined system of logic and eventually high critical thinking need emotional intelligence and integrity, as it drives intellectual honesty.

Children come into this world as great thinking machines, only lacking a refined system of logic. Their first communications are emotionally driven.

Sadly, the bigotry against children and the perpetuation of bad parenting and groupthink sends the child into chaos. Artificial imagination retards the original thought processes. Children quickly learn to wear masks. Facades and masks personify what ego is about.

One with a healthy inner child is confident and humble at the same time and has no need to prop his/her self up. Anyone who thinks that this is merely theory, then I give you Down's Syndrome children. They are vectors of unconditional love and it's contagious. The families that they are part of rank at the top of what humanity has to offer.